ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time Span, Terms, Movements, Examples
600-1200 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)			Beowulf
1200-1500 Middle English			Geoffrey Chaucer
1500-1660 The English Renaissance
1500-1558	Tudor Period	Humanist Era	Thomas More, John Skelton
1558-1603	Elizabethan Period	High Renaissance	Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare
1603-1625	Jacobean Period	Mannerist Style (1590-1640) other styles: Metaphysical Poets; Devotional Poets	Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, Emilia Lanyer
1625-1649	Caroline Period		John Ford, John Milton
1649-1660	The Commonwealth & The Protectorate	Baroque Style, and later, Rococo Style	Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes
1660-1700	The Restoration		John Dryden
1700-1800	The Eighteenth Century	The Enlightenment; Neoclassical Period; The Augustan Age	Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson
1785-1830	Romanticism	The Age of Revolution	William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, the Brontës
1830-1901	Victorian Period	Early, Middle and Late Victorian	Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1901-1960	Modern Period	The Edwardian Era (1901-1910); The Georgian Era (1910-1914)	G.M. Hopkins, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot
1960-	Postmodern and Contemporary Period		Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, John Fowles, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt

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