LITERARY PERIODS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE - to scond year

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Periods of British Literature
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