Writers And Their Ages Flashcards
Homeric Age
Illiad and the Odyssey
Writers of Classical Greek Period
Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides
Individual City States and early democracy
Classical Greek period
Patristic Period
Saint Jerome compiled the first Bible.
Tertullian, Saint Cyprian, Ambrose
Dark Ages
The old English or Anglo Saxon Period
Why are dark ages called the dark ages, mofo?
Because Rome fell and barbarian tribe move into Europe.
Franks, ostrogoths, Lombards, and Goths settle in the ruins of Europe.
Angles, Saxons, and Jutes migrate to Britain displacing native Celts into Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
Work of the Dark Ages
Beowulf, The Wanderer, The Seafarer
Carolingian Renaissance
Mediaeval Grammar, encyclopaedia etc
What happens in 1066?
Normal French Army invade and conquers England under William 1
Norman Conquest
12th century Renaissance
French chivalric romances spread
Late or High Mediaeval Period’s write
Chaucer, Gawain the poet, Pearl the poet, Wakefield Master, William Langland
Italian and French writers- Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante, Christine de Pisan
Century of Renaissance
15th 16th 17th century
Which phases does reformation and renaissance see?
early tudor Elizabethan jacobean caroline commonwealth or puritan
What happens in early tudor period?
War of roses end with Henry tudor claiming the throne.
Martin Luther’s split with Rome- Protestanism
Henry 8th Anglican schism- first protestant church
Henry Tudor is who
henry 7th
Sample poet of Early Tudor
Edmund Spenser
Who is writing in the Elizabethan age
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, Sidney
Writers of Jacobean age
Ben Jonson, John Donne, Amelia Lanyer
Caroline’s Age
John Milton, George Herbert, Robert Herrick
Sons of Ben
, Thomas Killigrew, and William Cavendish.
Puritan Interregnum’s writers
Andrew Marvell, Sir Thomas Browne
Phases of the enlightenment
Restoration
Augustan
Johnson
restoration period’s writers
john dryden, john locke, samuel pepys, aphra behn, william temple
Augustan period’s writers
imitation of Virgil, Horace’s literature
Addison, Steele, Swift, Alexander Pope
Age of Johnson writers
Samuel Jonson,Edward Gibbon, Robert Burns, Thomas Gray
who were the colonial writers
Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine
Writers of Romantic Period
Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Shelley, Johann von Goethe in Germany
which phases in American lit was conveyed during the English romantic era
Transcendental
Transcendentalists’ were who
Emerson and Thoreau
who were goths
Radcliff, monk lewis, Bram Stoker
American goths
Poe, Hawthorne
Victorian era writers
tennyson, Arnold, Browningrobert browning, charles dickins
pre raphaelittes were
William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti,
aesthetics and decadence movement flourished in____________ and writers were ____________________ _______________
victorian era, walter pater, oscar wilde
naturalists writers in America
stephen crane
walt whitman wrote in
free verse
Emily dickinson wrote in
common measure
modernist writers
modernist writers include W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, and Wilfred Owen
In America, the modernist period includes
Robert Frost and Flannery O’Connor
famous writers of The Lost Generation (also called the writers of The Jazz Age, 1914-1929)
famous writers of The Lost Generation (also called the writers of The Jazz Age, 1914-1929) such as Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner.
The Harlem Renaissance marks the rise of black writers such as
Langston Hughes Langston Hughes. Zora Neale Hurston. Countee Cullen. Louis Armstrong.
