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What is English What is English literature?literature?

She Walks in BeautyShe Walks in Beautyby George Gordon, Lord Byronby George Gordon, Lord Byron

She walks in Beauty, like the nightShe walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; Of cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightAnd all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Meet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellowed to that tender lightThus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Had half impaired the nameless graceWhich waves in every raven tress,Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Or softly lightens o’er her face;Where thoughts serenely sweet express,Where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,The smiles that win, the tints that glow,The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, But tell of days in goodness spent,A mind at peace with all below,A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! A heart whose love is innocent!

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Explore the relationships among individual works, Explore the relationships among individual works, authors, and literary movements in English and authors, and literary movements in English and American literature and consider the historical, American literature and consider the historical,

cultural, and societal contexts in which works were cultural, and societal contexts in which works were produced.produced.

Literary PeriodsLiterary Periods

• Old English(Anglo-Saxon)• Middle English• The Renaissance

-Elizabethan Age-Jacobean Age

• Neoclassical Period• Romanticism• Victorian Period

Old EnglishOld English

• Also known as Anglo-Saxon

• Invasion of Celtic England by Germanic tribes

• Oral Tradition

• Beowulf

Middle EnglishMiddle English

• The Medieval Period

• Norman Invasion

• The Canterbury Tales

The RenaissanceThe Renaissance

• French for “rebirth”• Cultural Movement• Advancements in Science• Artistic Aspects

*Leonardo da Vinci*Michelangelo

• William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe

Elizabethan AgeElizabethan Age

• Reign of Elizabeth I

• Medieval tradition blended with Renaissance optimism

• Lyric poetry, prose, and drama

• William Shakespeare

• Christopher Marlowe

• Ben Jonson

Jacobean AgeJacobean Age

• James I

• Sophisticated

• Conscious of social abuse and rivalry

• King James Translation of the Bible

• Shakespeare

• Johnson

• John Donne

Neoclassical PeriodNeoclassical Period• Philosophy• Reason• Skepticism• Wit• Refinement• Literary Criticism• Restoration

-John Milton-Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained • Age of Sensibility- Enlightenment

-instinct and feeling-Samuel Johnson

RomanticismRomanticism• 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

Victorian PeriodVictorian Period

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