| British Literature Literaturepochen im Überblick |
| 1. | The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066) |
| 2. | The middle English period (1066-1500) |
| 3. | The Renaissance (1500- 1660) Authors: William Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Edmund Spenser |
| Poetry: | William Shakespeare: Sonnets Andrew Marvell: To his coy mistress |
| 4. | Neoclassical period (1660-1798) |
| Poets: | Alexander Pope | > | (couplets which contain moral precepts summing up the rational
notions of the early decades of the century) Delightful satires: "The Rape of the Lock" , "The Dunciad". In “Rape of the Lock” he mocks the whole of the fashionable society of the eighteenth century. |
| Jonathan Swift | > | (poems on the folly of love): “Lady´s Dressing room”, “Strephon and Chloe”, “Cassinus and Peter “ | ||
| William Cowper | > | ( poet of nature) : “The task” | ||
| Robert Burns | > | ( peasant poet): He wrote in two distinct styles: as a cultivated English poet and the rougher and more earthly style of his own land. |
| Prose Writer: | Daniel Defoe: Henry Fielding: Samuel Richardson: Jonathan Swift: Laurence Sterne John Bunyan |
Robinson
Cruoe, Moll Flanders Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews Pamela Gulliver´s Travels Tristram Shandy The Pilgrim´s Progress |
| 5. | Romantic period (1798-1837) |
| Poets: | William Wordswith |
He uses the language of ordinary people ; the poet should be inspired by legend, feeling and imagination; the poet was to be a prophet proclaiming the beauty and splendour of life and nature.) London 1802, Ode: Intimations of Immortality |
| John Keats: | Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| William Blake: | The Tyger, London |
| Coleridge, S.T.: | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Shelley P.B.: | Ozymandias |
| Lord Byron: | Cantos aus Don Juan |
| Prose Writer: | Jane Austen : | Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Lady Susan |
| 6. | Victorian period (1837 – 1901) |
| Poet: | Alfred (Lord) Tennyson: | Ulysses |
| Robert Browning: | My last duchess. | Here the writer uses dramatic monologue which reveals his pride, his jealousy and his murder |
| Prose Writer: | Charles Dickens : | Great Expectations, Hard Times, Oliver Twist : |
| Thomas Hardy : | An exponent of pessimistic realism: Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D´ Urbervilles |
| George Eliot: | The mill on the floss |
| 7. | Modern period (1914- 1939) |
| Poets: | T. S. Eliot : | The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock: (records the inner monologue
of an elderly neurotic bachelor; irony and satirical descriptions dominate,
contrasts the trivial present with the meaningful past) The waste land, Hollow Men, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, Gerontion |
| Thomas Dylan | Do not go gentle in that good night. |
| W.H.Auden | Lay Your sleeping Head my Love |
| Drama Writers: | T.S. Eliot: | The Waste Land, The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, Cocktail Party, The Elder Statesman |
| Novel-writers: | Joseph Conrad: | Lord Jim (his finest novel) The Heart of Darkness Conrad uses a complicated narrative technique that includes an omniscient narrator, a sceptical commentator and “fatual reports by Jim himself), |
| James Joyce : | A Portrait of the Artist as a young man , Ulysses, Dubliners |
| Virginia Woolf: | Jacob´s room (first novel), Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse,
The Waves She uses interior monologue in a stream of consciousness technique to depict the inner life of her characters. |
| 8. | Post modern period (1939- ) |
| Metafiction : | Erzählkunst, die ihre eigene Erzählkunst thematisiert
und oftmals verschiedene Auswahlmöglichkeiten gibt, wie die Geschichte
enden könnte. |
| Authors: John Fowlers, A.S. Byott |
| Novel-writers: | George Orwell: | Animal farm, 1984 |
| Graham Greene: | The Third Man, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair |
| Anthony Burgess: | Clockwork Orange, Earthly Powers |
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