User:Vprzybyszewska/The literary epoch

The literary epoch - an era in the history of common or national literature in which similar literary directions prevail; the literary epoch may consist of literary periods.

The boundaries of the literary epoch are usually blurred, as the transition from epoch to epoch involves profound changes in culture and usually occurs gradually, at different rates, in different areas of the culture. Usually, however, the transition between epochs is connected with some significant event or set of events symbolizing a change characteristic of a given epoch and constituting a customary caesura between it and the epoch preceding it. An important element determining the character of the epoch is its philosophy, determining the type of mental formation and intellectual climate for the created works.

The literary epochs of Polish literature

 * the Middle Ages - to the 14th/ 15th century
 * Renaissance - 16th/ 17th century.
 * Baroque - 17th century.
 * Enlightenment - 18th century
 * Romanticism - 19th century, 1822-1863
 * Positivism - mid-19th century
 * Young Poland - 1890-1918
 * Interbellum - 1918-39
 * polish literature during World War II
 * present