Overview of Literature Through Ages PDF
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This document provides an overview of literature through different ages, from the Classical to Postmodern periods. It details various literary periods, their characteristics, and notable works and authors during each period.
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# 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!
