chronological overview of English literature

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  • Period: 439 to 1066

    Old English Period

    Topics: Religious in nature
    works: venerable Bede (731); Beowulf (975)
  • Period: 1066 to 1500

    Middle English Period

    Topics: secular literature

    Works: plers plowman (1367)
    Chaucer (1387)
  • Period: 1500 to

    Renaissance Period

    Topic: golden age of english drama
    Authors: Shakespeare (1601) edmun spencer (1590)
    Works: hamlet
  • Period: to

    Neoclassical Period

    Topic: putitanical age
    Authors: Jhon Milton (1667) Samuel Johnson (1755)
    Works: paradise lost
  • Period: to

    Romantic Period

    Topic: Age of sensibility - Authors: Jane Austen, Mary Shelley -Works: Lyrical Ballads
  • Period: to

    Victorian Period

    Topic: aestheticism and decadence - Authors: Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte
  • Period: to

    Edwardian Period

    Topic: Outbreak of world war - Authors: Joseph Conrad, William Butler
  • Period: to

    Georgian Period

    Topic: Rural or pastoral traditionally - autors: Ralph Hodgson, Rupert Brooke
  • Period: to

    Modern Period

    Topic: New criticism - Authors: Virginia Woolf , Wilfred Owens
  • Period: to

    Postmodern

    Topic: poststructuralilst literary and criticism - Authors: Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller