American Literature Timeline

Romanticism

Mar 1, 1798

Major Authors:
Joanna Baillie
Anna Barbauld
William Blake
Robert Burns
Brontë family
Lord Byron
Thomas Carlyle
François-René de Chateaubriand
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Maria Edgeworth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
José de Espronceda
William Godwin
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
William Hazlitt
Heinrich Heine
Victor Hugo
Leigh Hunt
Elizabeth Inchbald
Washington Irving
John Keats
James Kenney
Charles Lamb
Mikhail Lermontov
Adam Mickiewicz
Hannah More
Adam Oehlenschläger
Edgar Allan Poe

Romanticism Movement

Period: Mar 11, 1798 to Mar 11, 1832

Song: The Minstrel's Return from the War by John Hill Hewitt

Jan 12, 1827

Transcendentalism

Period: Jan 10, 1830 to Dec 31, 1840

Transcendentalism. Major players: Thourau and Emerson

Jan 11, 1830

Literary Realism. Major athors: George Eliot, Jorge Lius Borges

Mar 11, 1830

Realism

Period: Mar 11, 1830 to Mar 11, 1900

Essay: Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sep 1, 1830

Panic of 1837

May 10, 1837

Song: The Old Arm Chair, A Ballad by Henry Russell

Jan 1, 1840

Mexican-American War

Apr 25, 1846

Mexican-American War

Period: Apr 25, 1846 to Feb 2, 1848

Essay: Civil Desobedience by Henry Thoreau

May 1, 1849

Symbolists Movement

Period: Mar 11, 1870 to Mar 11, 1890

Symbolists Movement

Mar 11, 1880

Major Players:
George MacDonald (1824–1905)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
Francis Thompson (1859–1907)
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
Arthur Symons (1865–1945)
John Gray (1866–1934)
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900)
George Sterling (1869–1926)
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915)
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973)
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961)
Hart Crane (1899–1932)
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)

Spanish-American War 25 April-12 1898

Apr 25, 1898

Philipine American War

Jun 2, 1899

Philipine-American War

Period: Jun 2, 1899 to Jul 4, 1902

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Feb 28, 1906

Modernism 1910s-1940s

Jan 1, 1910

Major Authors: Ezra Pound, T.S Elliot, e.e Cummings, Sharon Olds, D.,H

Modernism

Period: Jan 1, 1910 to Dec 31, 1940

Start of World War One

Jul 28, 1914

World War One

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

Dadaism

Period: Jan 1, 1916 to Dec 31, 1922

Dadaism

Mar 11, 1916

Major poets:
Pierre Albert-Birot (1876 – 1967)
Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918)
Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 – December 24, 1982)
Jean Arp (September 16, 1886 – June 7, 1966)
Alice Bailly (February 25, 1872 - January 1 1938)
Johannes Baader (June 22, 1875 – January 15, 1955)
Johannes Theodor Baargeld (October 9, 1892 - August 16 or 17, 1927)
Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927)
André Breton (February 19, 1896 – September 28, 1966)
Gino Cantarelli
Arthur C

Lost Generation

Period: Mar 11, 1918 to Mar 11, 1930

End of Wolrd War One

Jul 11, 1918

Lost Generation of Writers. Major players: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dec 1, 1918

Came after World War One

Harlm Renaissance. Major players: Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson

Jan 1, 1920

Harlem Renaissance

Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1930

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Apr 10, 1925

Poem: Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

Jan 1, 1926

The Great Depression (1929-1940s)

Period: Sep 4, 1929 to Dec 31, 1940

Their Eyes Were Watching God bu Zora Neale Hurston

Sep 10, 1937

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Apr 14, 1939

Beat Generation

Period: Jan 11, 1940 to Dec 31, 1960

The beat Generation. Major authors: Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (19570

Jan 1, 1950

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Sailinger

Jul 16, 1951

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Jul 11, 1960

Song: Stand by me by Ben E. King

Oct 27, 1960

One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Feb 1, 1963

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

Jan 1, 1982

How the Garcia Gilrs Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

Jan 1, 1991