Pre-Test What is English literature?

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Pre-TestWhat is English literature?
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She Walks in Beautyby George Gordon, Lord
ByronShe walks in Beauty, like the night Of
cloudless climes and starry skiesAnd all thats
best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and
her eyesThus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.One shade the
more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the
nameless graceWhich waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens oer her faceWhere
thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how
dear their dwelling-place.And on that cheek,
and oer that brow, So soft, so calm, yet
eloquent,The smiles that win, the tints that
glow, But tell of days in goodness spent,A
mind at peace with all below, A heart whose
love is innocent!
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CE 3.3.1Explore the relationships among
individual works, authors, and literary movements
in English and American literature and consider
the historical, cultural, and societal contexts
in which works were produced.
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Literary Periods

• Old English(Anglo-Saxon)
• Middle English
• The Renaissance
• -Elizabethan Age
• -Jacobean Age
• Neoclassical Period
• Romanticism
• Victorian Period

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Old English

• Also known as Anglo-Saxon
• Invasion of Celtic England by Germanic tribes
• Oral Tradition
• Beowulf

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Middle English

• The Medieval Period
• Norman Invasion
• The Canterbury Tales

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The Renaissance

• French for rebirth
• Cultural Movement
• Advancements in Science
• Artistic Aspects
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo
• William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe

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Elizabethan Age

• Reign of Elizabeth I
• Medieval tradition blended with Renaissance
  optimism
• Lyric poetry, prose, and drama
• William Shakespeare
• Christopher Marlowe
• Ben Jonson

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Jacobean Age

• James I
• Sophisticated
• Conscious of social abuse and rivalry
• King James Translation of the Bible
• Shakespeare
• Johnson
• John Donne

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Neoclassical Period

• Philosophy
• Reason
• Skepticism
• Wit
• Refinement
• Literary Criticism
• Restoration
• -John Milton-Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
• Age of Sensibility- Enlightenment
• -instinct and feeling
• -Samuel Johnson

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Romanticism

• Personal Nature
• Strong Use of Feeling
• Symbolism
• Nature and the Supernatural
• Innovative-literature should be spontaneous,
  imaginative, personal and free
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• William Wordsworth
• Jane Austen
• Lord Byron
• Gothic Literature

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Victorian Period

• Queen Victoria
• Issues and Problems of the Day
• Social, economic, intellectual, and religious
  issues
• Industrial Revolution
• Feminist Movement
• Charles Darwins theory of evolution
• Alfred Lord Tenyson
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Charles Dickens
• Thomas Hardy