In English literary periods, there are many literary periods or movements but there are eight

major periods that we are going to talk about. We have here the Classical Period, medieval
period, the renaissance and reformation period, enlightenment or neoclassical period, the
romantic period, the romantic period and 19th century, modern and post modern period.
Classical Period - The classical period was a golden age for literature and the arts. The big
writers from this period include all those Greek and Roman guys who wrote epics, like Homer of
the Iliad and Odyssey fame, and the Roman poet Virgil who wrote the Aeneid. The Greek
philosophers Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle called this period home, as did Greek dramatists
like Euripides and Aristophanes. As for poets, Horace and Ovid were two of the most influential.
What did these writers have in common? Well, when people talk about classicism they talk about
literature that is distinctive for its balance, order, and reasonableness. Aristotle's Poetics was
super important in defining these features for drama in the following centuries, as was
Horace's Ars Poetica. For Horace, poetry was supposed to be "dulce et utile," or "sweet and
useful."

Medieval period - Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written
works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one thousand
years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the
Florentine Renaissance in the late 15th century). The literature of this time was composed of
religious writings as well as secular works. Just as in modern literature, it is a complex and rich
field of study, from the utterly sacred to the exuberantly profane, touching all points in-between.
Because of the wide range of time and place it is difficult to speak in general terms without
oversimplification, and thus the literature is best characterized by its place of origin and/or
language, as well as its genre. Since Latin was the language of the Roman Catholic Church,
which dominated Western and Central Europe, and since the Church was virtually the only
source of education, Latin was a common language for Medieval writings, even in some parts of
Europe that were never Romanized. However, in Eastern Europe, the influence of the Eastern
Roman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Church made Greek and Old Church Slavonic the
dominant written languages. theological works were the dominant form of literature typically
found in libraries during the Middle Ages. Catholic clerics were the intellectual centre of society
in the Middle Ages, and it is their literature that was produced in the greatest quantity.
Renaissance or Reformation Period - The Renaissance (from the French word for "rebirth")
refers to the emergence and new interest in classical Greek and Roman texts and culture that took
place between the Middle Ages and the modern period. With the advent of the printing press in
1440, the development of vernacular languages, and the weakening influence of the Catholic
Church on daily life, among other historic events, Renaissance writers and scholars had new
avenues for expressing their views. Many Renaissance works survive into the twenty-first
century as some of the most celebrated in history. Early writers such as Desiderius Erasmus and
Thomas More staged direct attacks on the Church and society with works such as Erasmus's The
Praise of Follyand More's Utopia. These writers helped open doors for later ones,
including William Shakespeare, who some critics consider the greatest dramatist and poet of all
time.

Enlightenment or Neoclassical Period - During this period, Neoclassicism and the

Enlightenment were different, but intertwined movements. Neoclassicism was an artistic
manifestation of aesthetic and cultural ideals, while the Enlightenment was a wider philosophical
and political movement focusing on the human condition.

Romantic period - The romantic period is a term applied to the literature of approximately the
first third of the nineteenth century. During this time, literature began to move in channels that
were not entirely new but were in strong contrast to the standard literary practice of the
eighteenth century.

How the word romantic  came to be applied to this period is something of a puzzle. Originally
the word was applied to the Latin or Roman dialects used in the Roman provinces, especially
France, and to the stories written in these dialects. Romantic is a derivative of romant, which
was borrowed from the French romaunt in the sixteenth century. At first it meant only "like the
old romances" but gradually it began to carry a certain taint. Romantic, according to L. P. Smith
in his Words and Idioms, connoted "false and fictitious beings and feelings, without real
existence in fact or in human nature"; it also suggested "old castles, mountains and forests,
pastoral plains, waste and solitary places" and a "love for wild nature, for mountains and moors."
Victorian period and 19th century - Victorian era, in British history, the period between
approximately 1820 and 1914, corresponding roughly but not exactly to the period of Queen
Victoria’s reign (1837–1901) and characterized by a class-based society, a growing number of
people able to vote, a growing state and economy, and Britain’s status as the most
powerful empire in the world.

During the Victorian period, Britain was a powerful nation with a rich culture. It had a stable
government, a growing state, and an expanding franchise. It also controlled a large empire, and it
was wealthy, in part because of its degree of industrialization and its imperial holdings and in
spite of the fact that three-fourths or more of its population was working-class. Late in the
period, Britain began to decline as a global political and economic power relative to other major
powers, particularly the United States, but this decline was not acutely noticeable until
after World War II.

Modern Period - Victorian era, in British history, the period between approximately 1820 and
1914, corresponding roughly but not exactly to the period of Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901)
and characterized by a class-based society, a growing number of people able to vote, a growing
state and economy, and Britain’s status as the most powerful empire in the world.

During the Victorian period, Britain was a powerful nation with a rich culture. It had a stable
government, a growing state, and an expanding franchise. It also controlled a large empire, and it
was wealthy, in part because of its degree of industrialization and its imperial holdings and in
spite of the fact that three-fourths or more of its population was working-class. Late in the
period, Britain began to decline as a global political and economic power relative to other major
powers, particularly the United States, but this decline was not acutely noticeable until
after World War II.

Post modern period - The notable literary devices of postmodern literature are paradox,
unreliable narrators, unrealistic narratives, parody and dark humor. Most postmodern literature
also rejects the idea of a single theme or meaning, choosing instead to have many meanings or
forgo theme entirely. This rejection of theme and meaning is often because many of its authors
and artists fail to see a singular meaning in the broken, disastrous world around them. Instead, it
often enjoys poking fun at those who try to find meaning themselves.

Additionally, postmodern literature blurs the line between high and low art and genre, as literary
works frequently use intertextuality (referencing other literature, real or imagined, within the
work), metafiction (making readers aware of the fact that they are reading fiction) and magical
realism (a realistic narrative with an implausible supernatural or magical element thrown in).

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