Era of Literature

• heroism, elegy, glory , a little bit of Christianity?

  Old English
• Cædmon, Bede, Alfred the Great, and Cynewulf.

  famous authors of Old English
• The period used to be known as the Dark Ages, mainly because written sources for the early years of Saxon invasion are scarce.?

  Anglo- Saxon Period
• Medieval Period - Ballad is the most popular forms of literature.
• Medieval Period - morality , feudalism , religion, miracle , mystery.
• Chaucer, Dante Alighieri, Langland, Boccacio, Petrarch, and Guittone are the most important writers of the Middle Ages.
• Renaissance - was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages.
• William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Edmund Spencer were some of the most famous writers of the Renaissance.
• John Donne - poems are characterized by metaphors and paradoxical imagery.
• The Restoration, The Augustan, and Age of Johnson?

  Age of Restoration
• Romantic Age - nature and imagination
• The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century was a pivotal moment in the Renaissance.
• The Victorian era saw revolutionary breakthroughs in the arts and sciences, which shaped the world as we know it today. These transformations led to many social changes with the birth and spread of political movements, most notably socialism, liberalism and organised feminism.
• Charles Dickens, Jane Eyre, Bronte sisters, Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, and Alfred Lord Tennyson - Victorian Era
• Modern Literature - breaking traditional forms.
• Ex: The Iliad- Homer and The Aeneid - Virgil ( Ancient times )?

  Epic Poetry