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EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH

EARLY MODERN PERIOD This period of English Literature includes Elizabethan Era,Jacobean Literature,Restoration Literature,Augustan Literature.

ELIZABETHAN ERA This is the period of Queen Elizabeth and James I. There were many playwrights and poets.Important and few among them are Shakespeare,Christopher Marlowe,Thomas Dekkar,Francis Beaumont. Poets like Edmund Spencer and Sir Philip Sidney also created their masterpiece works during this period. It is in this era,Thomas Wyatt introduced sonnet(14 lines poem) to English Literature.

JACOBEAN LITERATURE It is in the reign of James I. Ben Johnson was the leading literary figure of this era.He was the master of style and brilliant satirist. Popular style of theater during Jacobean times was the revenge play.It was popularized by John Webster and Thomas Kyd.

RESTORATION LITERATURE The work that is behind the popularity of Restoration Literature was Paradise Lost by John Milton. Restoration period's prose was dominated by christian religious writings .Two genres ,fiction and journalism began in this period.

AUGUSTAN LITERATURE This period was from 1689 to 1750 ;18 C. Most outstanding poet was Alexander Pop.Other main writers of this period was Joseph Addison,George Lillo, Richard Steel,John Donna.