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Historyofenglishliterature Bthebeginnings 171230190114
Historyofenglishliterature Bthebeginnings 171230190114
VIDYA PATIL
Assistant Professor in English
Government First Grade College, Humnabad.
* The Anglo Saxon Period Before Chaucer
( Beginning to 1350 )
* The Age of Chaucer
( 1350 – 1400 )
* The Renaissance Period
( 1400 – 1578 )
* The Age of Elizabeth
(1578 – 1625 )
* The Age of Milton
( 1625 – 1660 )
* The Restoration Period
( 1660 – 1700 )
* The Age of Pope
( 1700 – 1740 )
* The Age of Johnson
( 1740 – 1798 )
* The Age of Romanticism
( 1798 – 1830 )
* The Victorian Age
( 1830 -1890 )
* Early Twentieth Century Literature
( 1890 – 1930 )
* Twentieth Century Literature Since 1930
( 1930 – 1960 )
INTRODUCTION
English literature traces its origin to
the beginning of the history of English
people.
The English are a composite race,
Because various racial elements have
entered into their making :
Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Normans.
. The Celts were the earliest inhabitants of
England.
• The Romans conquered Britain in 43A.D.
• The Angles, Saxons and Jutes came to
settle in England in the latter part of the
fifth century A.D. and eventually gave
the country it’s name and it’s language.
• The Angles being the most numerous
gave their name to the whole country :–
Angle- land or England.
• The first step that put the Anglo-Saxons
on the path of civilisation was their
conversion to Christianity.
. Oral literature was popular and mainly
secular and religious in nature.
• Written English literature was said to