Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, … See more

The English Renaissance as a part of the Northern Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the … See more

Augustan literature (1700–1745)
During the 18th century literature reflected the worldview of the Age of Enlightenment (or Age of Reason): … See more

Sage writing
During these years, sage writing developed as a new literary genre in which the author sought "to … See more

After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the written form of the Anglo-Saxon language became less common. Under the influence of the new aristocracy, French became the … See more

Restoration literature includes both Paradise Lost and the Earl of Rochester's Sodom, the sexual comedy of The Country Wife and the moral wisdom of Pilgrim's Progress. It saw Locke's Two Treatises on Government, the founding of the Royal Society See more

Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Romanticism arrived later in other parts of the English-speaking … See more