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    The document provides a summary of early periods of literature from the Classical period to the Renaissance and Reformation period. It describes the major time periods, genres, and authors that characterized each era from 1200 BCE to 1660 CE. The Classical period included Homeric/Heroic works, Classical Greek authors like Plato and Aristotle, and Classical Roman writers. The Medieval period saw Old English texts and Middle English works. The Renaissance/Reformation period covered the Early Tudor, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline, and Puritan Interregnum periods and their defining authors like Shakespeare, Milton, and Herbert.

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    Early Periods

    of Literature
    Yarixz Hyra Siong
    Reporter
    Table of Contents

    01 02
    Introduction Classical Period
    What is literature? 1200 BCE – 445 CE

    03 04
    Medieval Period Renaissance & Reformation
    445 CE — 1485 CE 1485 CE — 1660 CE
    01
    The Classical
    Period
    The Classical Period

    HOMERIC OR HEROIC CLASSICAL GREEK


    1200-800 BCE. Greek legends 800-200 BCE. Gorgias, Aesop,
    include Illiad and The Odyssey. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,
    Warrior princes, wandering sea Euripedes and Sophocles. It was
    traders and fierce pirates. the Golden Age of Greece.

    CLASSICAL ROMAN PATRISTIC


    200 BCE-455 CE. Plautus, 70 CE- 455 CE. Early Christian
    Terence, Ovid, Horace, writings appear such as Saint
    Virgil, Marcus Aurelis, Augustine, Tertullian, Cyprian,
    Lucretius, Cicero and Ambrose and Jerome.
    Quintilian.
    02
    The Medieval
    Period
    Medieval Period

    Old English The so called Dark Ages. Beowulf, The


    Wanderer, and The Seafarer arose. Texts also
    (Anglo-Saxon) include medieval grammars, and Viking sagas
    428-1066 CE also began in this period.

    Works of Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Jeun Middle


    de Meun, Geoffrey Chauser, William Langland, English
    Boccacio, Petrarch, Dante and Chritine di Pisan. 1066-1450 CE
    03
    The Renaissance

    & Reformation
    Period
    Renaissance & Reformation Period
    (1485-1660 CE)

    01 02 03

    Early Tudor Period Elizabethan Period Jacobean Period


    (1485-1558) (1558-1603) (1603-1625)
    Edmund Spencer is a sample poet Her reign is marked by the early Shakespeare’s later work,
    in this era after The War of the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Aemilia Lanyer, Ben Jonson, and
    roses ends in England with Henry Kydd, and Sydney. John Donne reigned in this
    VII. period.
    Renaissance & Reformation

    04 05

    Caroline Age Puritan Interregum


    (1605-1625) (1649-1660)
    John Milton, George Herbert, Otherwise known as
    Robert Herrick, the “Sons of Commonwealth Period. John
    Ben“ wrote in this era. Milton continues to write,
    Andrew Marvell, Sir Thomas
    Browne.
    “Time is fleeting, but
    never literature.”
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