Anglo-Saxon literature period was mainly epic poems.

They used these poems to pass

down history people gathered in mead halls and recited poems as a source of
entertainment. These poems consisted of kennings, alliteration, and rhymes. Epic poems
show the influence of Christianity and pagan beliefs such as the freedom of decision
making and fate handling matters of life and death. Christian versus Pagan religion was
one of the biggest cultural values expressed in Anglo-Saxon Literature Christians believed
in one God and in Heaven. Pagans believed in many gods and in fate, two examples that we
read in class were Beowulf and The Seafarer. Boasting was also included in Anglo-Saxon
works of literature.

Romanticism was the artistic time period that started in Europe from 1800-1850.
Romanticism was most known by its emphasis on emotion and nature, preferring the
medieval rather than the classical. This was also the time of the Age of Enlightenment, and
the Rationalization of nature in class we learned about a romanticism time period author
which is Edgar Allen Poe.

Victorian unit was from the years from 1830 to 1900, though there is ample
disagreement regarding even this simple point. The name given to the period is borrowed
from the royal matriarch of England who sat on throne from 1837 to 1901. The Victorian
writers exhibited some well-established habits from previous eras, while at the same time
pushing arts and letters in new and interesting directions. Indeed, some of the later
Victorian novelists and poets are nearly indistinguishable from the Modernists who
followed shortly thereafter. In spite of the uncertainty of terminology, there are some
concrete statements that one can make regarding the nature of Victorian literature, and the
intellectual world which nurtured that literature not surprisingly, women in the Victorian
world held very little power and had to fight hard for the change they wanted in their lives.
What one thinks of as feminism today had not yet taken form in the Victorian period? The
philosophy of female emancipation, however, became a rallying point for many female
Victorian writers and thinkers. Though their philosophies and methods were often quite
divergent, the ultimate goal of intellectual women in the nineteenth century was largely the
same. Poets and novelists frequently had to be coy when addressing their status in society.
17th and 18th century
Medieval time period the medieval period, or middle Ages, arguably lasted from
about the time of the fall of the Western half of the Roman Empire in 476 CE until the late
1400s. Some consider the invention of the printing press in 1450 to be one of the markers of
the succeeding Renaissance. For a long time, the medieval period was incorrectly identified

as the 'Dark Ages'. The humanists of the Renaissance reflected upon the classical era as a
period of great learning and achievement, and saw the medieval period as a time of no
advancement whatsoever. In fact, many viewed the loss of classical learning that occurred
during the period as a sort of stumbling slip backwards along the path of human progress.
The term 'Dark Ages' reflected this viewpoint, but did not take into account advancements
during the period, including agricultural, economic, and legal progress. Even the term
'middle ages' is in some ways a derogatory term for the period. It is considered in the
middle of the great classical and Renaissance (meaning rebirth) periods.