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What characteristics fit with the Anglo Saxon era
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What characteristics fit with the Anglo Saxon era
Heroism, epics/oral story telling, darkness, deepness
Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon
Medieval (1066-1485)
Shift from old English to Middle English, religion, folklore and fairytales,chivalry, and romance
Canterbury Tales
A collection of stories written in Medieval period by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey .
Malory
Author of Morte d'Arthur medieval time period
The Renaissance (1485-1625)
Rebirth, humanistic, moving away from a rigid social structure
Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare
Renaissance sonnets poets
Pastoral/lyrical
Marlowe, Raleigh, and Jonson
Metaphysical
Donne, Herbert
Macbeth
Shakespeare
Restoration (1625-1798)Reason/logic free thinkingMiltonFree Market of Ideas, there are good and bad ideas, the good will win out Ideologic DarwanismCavaliers PoetsJohnson, Herrick, Suckling, LovelaceJohn SwiftA Modest ProposalOrwell's Animals farmSatire/postmodernismRomantic era (1798-1832)Emotion, imagination, freedom, individualism, perfection of nature,Gray, Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, KeatsRomantics poetsGothic LiteratureSuper natural events, fear, past influencing the present, ruins and destruction,Victorian Era (c. 1832-1901)Realism vs imagination, naturalism, nostalgia, long plots