English literature can be divided into five stages: ancient and medieval English literature, neoclassical period, The Romantic Period, Victorian period and modern period. In the history of English literature, ancient times probably started in the park in 450 and ended in 1066, that is, the year of Normandy conquest, which was mainly divided into religious poems and secular poems. The Bible and Beowulf are typical examples that have been handed down to this day, and Anglo-Saxon civilization flourished for a while. This kind of poetic rhyme combines rough and bold weather and tragic style. Renaissance is the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of modern society. However, from15th century to17th century, humanism was its spirit. Writers in that period included Shakespeare, Bacon, Marlowe, Spencer and john milton. The neoclassical period was from 1660, the restoration of Stuart dynasty to The Romantic Period in 798. Britain was in turmoil in the early stage and developed its national strength in the later stage. The18th century in Britain was an age of enlightenment, advocating order, rationality and the rule of law. The literary giants in this period include john bunyan, daniel defoe, Swift, henry fielding Richard Brinsley sheridan and thomas gray The Romantic Period, from the lyric ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge to the death of Scott 1832, the French Revolution and the British Industrial Revolution. Mainly emphasizing human rights, the main writers are Blake, Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Jane Austen and Victoria, which was the climax of the British industrial revolution. The reign of Queen Victoria was from 1, 836 to 1, 906, 5438+0, which was the most glorious period in British history, and the country was relatively prosperous and stable. The main writers are Dickens, Bronte sisters, Tennyson Browning, George Eliot and Hardy. In modern times, due to the monopoly of the bourgeoisie, contradictions intensified, and the losses of World War I and World War II, the national strength of the empire declined and philosophical thoughts came into being. There are many schools, such as Bernard Shaw, Ye Zhi, Eliot, Lawrence and Joyce.