The Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Period

The Anglo-Saxon

&Medieval

Period

Epic PoetryChivalric CodeChaucerKnightsFeudalismPlagueBeowulfKing Arthur

RenaissancePeriod

ShakespeareElizabethan ReignWar of the RosesProtestantismMilton’s Paradise LostSonnetsEngland Controls:

IrelandJamaica, the Bahamas“The Americas”

The Enlightenment & Restoration

The Age of ReasonRevolutionary War in America

Rise in women writersSatire

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsIrish Potato Famine

England Controls Scotland (Becoming Great Britain,) Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India

Romanticism

Tintern AbbeyInspiration from NatureFrankensteinLake PoetsGothic StyleBeethovenEngland Controls:

EgyptSingaporeHong Kong

The Victorian Era

Industrial RevolutionCharles DickensOliver TwistOscar WildeQueen VictoriaChild LaborOvercrowded CitiesCharles DarwinGreat Britain Controls:

South Africa

Modernism Stream of Consciousness

StyleYeatsGeorge Orwell’s 1984Virginia WoolfWorld Wars I and IIImperialismGandhi/ Indian Independence

Treaty of Versailles Gives Great Britain Control over:

PalestineIraq

Contemporary