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English Literature Overview

The document provides an overview of major periods and authors in English literature from Old English to the 20th century. It includes summaries of Beowulf as an Old English epic poem, William Shakespeare as a renowned playwright and poet of the Elizabethan period, and Jane Austen as a prominent 18th century novelist. Key periods covered are Old English literature, Middle English literature, Elizabethan literature, the Romantic period, the Victorian era, and 20th century English literature. Major authors highlighted from each period include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.

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English Literature Overview

The document provides an overview of major periods and authors in English literature from Old English to the 20th century. It includes summaries of Beowulf as an Old English epic poem, William Shakespeare as a renowned playwright and poet of the Elizabethan period, and Jane Austen as a prominent 18th century novelist. Key periods covered are Old English literature, Middle English literature, Elizabethan literature, the Romantic period, the Victorian era, and 20th century English literature. Major authors highlighted from each period include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.

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EPIC POEM

BEOWULF
is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.
It is one of the most important works of Old English literature.
The date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars;
the only certain dating pertains to the manuscript, which was
produced between 975 and 1025.[3] The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet,
referred to by scholars as the "Beowulf poet"

SONNET
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely


regarded as the greatest writer in the English language
and the world's greatest dramatist.

DRAMA

it is a farcical comedy in which the


protagonists maintain fictitious persona to
escape burdensome social obligations.
NOVEL
was born in the early 18th
century.

ENGLISH LITERATURE

OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE


It is known for its use of
kennings, which are
was spoken by the phrases or compound
Anglo-Saxons words used to name
persons, places, and things
indirectly.

MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE


from the 14th century until the 1470s. During this
time the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based
English became widespread and the printing press
regularized the language.

Geoffrey Chaucer
ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE
That is because he seems to have been given
the title in recognition of his stature as ‘great
poet’ and the unofficial national poet of England

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD


who flourished in the last years of the 18th century

and the first decades of the 19th, “Romantic” is


indispensable but also a little misleading: there was no self-styled
“Romantic movement” at the time, and the great writers of the period
did not call themselves Romantics.

THE VICTORIAN PERIOD


the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign,
from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

Charles Dickens Alfred Lord Tennyson Robert Browning


Arthur Henry Hallam
TWENTIETH CENTURY
was a century that began on January 1, 1901[1] and ended on

December 31, 2000.[2] It was the tenth and final century of the

2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s

which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999.

William Butler Thomas Stearns Eliot Virginia Woolf

GROUP 1 GROUP 1
RENA ROSE ANTENOR RENA ROSE ANTENOR
LJ AHSLY ILAGAN JOSHUA MACAYA
KENNETH TORDECILLA
JOSHUA MACAYA
BARACHIEL GARCIA
NED BACAY
JOHN IVAN SELERIO
JULIUS MAGTIBAY
MHAR ABREA

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