Overview of Literature Through Ages PDF

# Overview of Literature through Ages ## Literature Periods ### Early Period of Literature - The Classical Period (1200 BCE - 455 CE) - A golden age for literature and arts. - Some Significant Literary work in this period: - The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer - Works and Days by Hesio...

# Overview of Literature through Ages ## Literature Periods ### Early Period of Literature - The Classical Period (1200 BCE - 455 CE) - A golden age for literature and arts. - Some Significant Literary work in this period: - The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer - Works and Days by Hesiod - Theogony by Hesiod - Greek writer and philosopher during this period: - Gorgias - Aesop - Plato - Socrates - Aristotle - Euripides - The Medieval Period (455 CE - 1485 CE) - Also known as Anglo-Saxon Period. - Some Significant Literary work in this period: - The Canterbury Tales - Beowulf - The Dark Ages and the Bards - The Dream of the Holy Rood - Famous Author during this period: - Geoffrey Chaucer - Thomas Aquinas - Martin Luther - Caedmon - Significant Literary Genres: - Elegy - Religious Liturgy - Narrative Romance - The Renaissance Period (1485-1660 CE) - It is considered to be the division between the Middle age and Modern era. - Some Significant Literary work in this period: - Romeo and Juliet - When I was Fair and Young - Utopia - The faerie Queen - Famous Author during this period: - William Shakespeare - Sir Thomas More - Queen Elizabeth I - Edmund Spencer ### Later Period of Literature - The Enlightenment Period (1660 BCE - 1790) - Referred to as The Age of Reason. - Era of Logic - Some Significant Literary work in this period: - All for love - The Rake of the Lock - Rights of Man - Elegy written in a Churchyard - Famous Author during this period: - John Dryden - Alexander Pope - Thomas Paine - Thomas Gray - Popular Types of literature during this period: - Essay - Melodrama - Letters - Fables - The Romantic Period (1790 - 1830) - Great Age for the Novel. - Emphasize on Emotion, Imagination and Individualism. - Some Significant Literary work in this period: - I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud - Kubla Khan - Song of Innocence and of Experience - Mathilda - Famous Author during this period: - William Wordsworth - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - William Blake - Mary Shelley - The Victorian Period (1832 - 1901) - The Reign of Queen Victoria. - The literature of this Era expressed the fusion of pure romance to gross realism. - Some Significant Literary work in this period: - The Pickwick Papers - How do I love Thee - Ulysses - Famous Author during this period: - Charles Dicken - Elizabeth Browning - Alfred Lord Tennison - The Modern Period (1914 - 1945) - Characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. - Some Significant Literary work in this period: - The Road Not Taken - And Death Shall Have No Dominion - Insensibility. - Famous Author during this period: - Robert Frost - Dylan Thomas - Wilfred Owen - The Postmodern Period (1945 - Onward) - Characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator. - Some Significant Literary work in this period: - Infinite Jest - The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock - Waiting for Godot - Famous Author during this period: - David Foster Wallace - T.S Eliot - Samuel Beckett # Questions!