Periods of English Literature

The Summury

It extends back more than 6,000 years to the reign of William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

The Summury

It saw a series of major changes in the language, life, and culture of England from the Anglo-Saxon era to the reign of Henry VII.

The Summury

It was a great age of English literature especially in drama. The most famous writers of the period were Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe and Eillam Shakespeare

The Summury

It was the period of flourishing writing .The most famous writers of the period were John Donne and the King James translation of the Bible.

The Summury

The Caroline era refers to the period in English and Scottish history named for the 24-year reign of Charles I.There were developments in the arts and sinces .

The Summury

The Summury

The period takes its name from the restoration of Charles II to the English throne. Sir George Etherege, William Wycherley, William Congreve and John Dryden were prominent playwrights during this period.

The Summury

the phrase was commonly used to refer to the literary period in the eighteenth century and afterwards The most important writers of the time (including Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and Joseph Addison)

The Summury

It is called “the Age of Sensibility,” in recognition of the high value that many Britons .dominant position of Samuel Johnson (1709-84) and his literary and intellectual circle,

The Summury

Major English writers of the period, in addition to Wordsworth and Coleridge, were the poets Robert Burns, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Walter.

The Summury

The most prominent essayists of the period were Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Arnold, and Walter Pater; the most distinguished of many excellent noveli

The Summury

Many of the major achievements were in prose fiction— works by Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and Henry James

The Summury

Georgian Period refers to the reigns in England of the four successive Georges (1714-1830) and (more frequently) to George V (1910-36) Georgian poets designate a group of writers in the latter era who loomed large in anthologies entitled Georgian Poetry.

The Dummury

This period has produced major achievements in all the literary genres. Among the notable writers are the poets W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Robert Graves, Dylan Thomas, and Seamus