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What do you expect when you read a poem from old English or from the early modern Century.
The language is different Themes are different Rhymes and meters are different
The earliest poem was written in a kind of English that is now difficult to understand.
Modern English started around the time of William Shakespeare, towards the end of the 16th century.
Literary Periods
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Romanticism
Victorian
Modernism
Postmodernism
Review Question
Old English
Years 450-1066 Difficult to read the language Literary Example: Beowulf, author unknown The oldest epic poem- Beowulf- appeared probably in the 7th century
Hwt! We Gardena in geardagum, eodcyninga, rym gefrunon, hu a elingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaena reatum,
Beowulf
5 monegum mgum, meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas. Syan rest wear feasceaft funden, he s frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weormyndum ah, ot him ghwylc ara ymbsittendra 10 ofer hronrade gomban gyldan. cyning! hyran scolde, t ws god
Middle English
Years 1066-1500
Literary Example
Sir Thomas Malory- Le Morte DArthur Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)Canterbury Tales (31 people- each of them- 2 stories but 23 stories only)different people different society
Renaissance
Years 1500-1660 Flourishing of arts and literature Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Milton wrote during this time Literary Example: John Miltons Paradise Lost
Shakespeare is most famous for his plays. His sonnets ,however, belong to the best English poetry.
John Donne
John Keats
Byron
John Milton
Robert Frost
Wordsworth
Neoclassical
Years 1660-1785 Includes The Restoration. Poetic example: The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope
Romanticism
Years 1785-1830 Includes the Gothic Period Poetic Example: Adonais, by Shelly
Modernism
Years 1914-1945 Literature begins taking a more recognizable form Poetic Example: The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot.
Postmodernism Contemporary
Years 1950-present Our current literary period
Review Question
During which literary period did Shakespeare write? A. Middle English B. Renaissance C. Neoclassical
Incorrect.
Middle English was before Shakespeare, and included The Canterbury Tales.
Correct!
Good job! Shakespeare wrote during the Renaissance, which occurred from 15001660.
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Incorrect.
The Neoclassical period came after Shakespeare, and included Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift.