OVERVIEW OF

LITERATURE THROUGH
THE AGES
AGUSTIN. Kimberly W.
ANCHETA, Kenzie M.
BSED 3F-1
Meaning of World
Literature

Literature, History and

Culture
Introduction to World
Literature Period
 WORLD
LITERATURE
-- “Littera” means “Letter”

Literature – Knowledge of
books--
-- refer to the sum total of the
world’s national literatures
LITERATURE,
HISTORY AND

“
CULTURE
The relationship is reciprocal. Our
culture affects what we write and what we
write is used to interpret our history.
However, our history influences culture,
which creates a beautiful loop in which
these three things work together to define a
group of people, a nation, etc.
- ANONYMOUS
Overview of Literature through Ages

Introduction to World
Literature Periods
EARLY PERIOD OF
LITERATURE
The Classical Period
(1200 BCE – 455 CE)
The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
The Renaissance Period
(1485-1660 CE)
 The Classical Period
(1200 BCE – 455 CE)

A
golden age for
literature and
arts
 The Classical Period
(1200 BCE – 455 CE)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:

• The Iliad and The Odyssey by

Homer
• Works and Days by Hesiod
• Theogony by Hesiod
 The Classical Period
(1200 BCE – 455 CE)
Greek writer and philosopher during this
period:

• Gorgias • Socrates
• Aesop • Aristotle
• Plato • Euripides
The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)

Also known as
Anglo-Saxon
Period
 The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
• The Canterbury Tales
• Beowulf
• The Dark Ages and the Bards
• The Dream of the Holy Rood
 The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
Famous Author during this period:

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Thomas Aquinas
• Martin Luther
• Caedmon
 The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
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.
 The Renaissance Period
(1485-1660 CE)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
• Romeo and Juliet
• When I was Fair and Young
• Utopia
• The faerie Queen
 The Renaissance Period
(1485-1660 CE)
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)
The Romantic Period (1790 –
1830)
The Vitorian Period (1832 – 1901)

The Modern Period (1914 – 1945)

The Post Modern Period (1945

onward)
The Enlightenment
Period
(1660 – 1790)

--Referred to as
The Age of Reason.
--Era of Logic
 The Enlightenment
Period
(1660
Some Significant – 1790)
Literary work in this
period:
• All for love
• The Rake of the Lock
• Rights of Man
• Elegy written in a Churchyard
 The Enlightenment
Period
(1660 – 1790)
Famous Author during this period:

• John Dryden
• Alexander Pope
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Gray
 The Enlightenment
Period
Popular Types(1660 – 1790)
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.
 The Romantic Period
(1790 – 1830)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
• I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud
• Kubla Khan
• Song of Innocence and of
Experience
• Mathilda
 The Romantic Period
(1790 – 1830)
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.
 The Victorian Period
(1832 – 1901)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
• The Pickwick Papers
• How do I love Thee
• Ulysses
 The Victorian Period
(1832 – 1901)
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.
 The Modern Period
(1914 – 1945)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
• The Road Not Taken
• And Death Shall Have No
Dominion
• Insensibility
 The Modern Period
(1914 – 1945)
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
 The Postmodern Period
(1945 – Onward)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
• Infinite Jest
• The Love Song Of J. Alfred
Prufrock
• Waiting for Godot
 The Postmodern Period
(1945 – Onward)
Famous Author during this period:

• David Foster Wallace

• T.S Eliot
• Samuel Beckett
Questions !
1. It is the Golden Age of Literature and
Arts

a) The Classical Period

b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
2. It referred to as The Age of Reason and
also known as neoclassical period

a) The Modern Period

b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
 3. It is the Great Age for Novels and it
emphasize on Emotion, Imagination and
Individualism

a) The Renaissance
Period
b) The Victorian Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
4. In what period does the First printing
press was invented?

a) The Renaissance
Period
b) The Victorian Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
5. Also known as Anglo-Saxon Period or
Old English Period.

a) The Classical Period

b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period