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English chronology

By Johannis Villa
  • Old English (450-1066)
    450

    Old English (450-1066)

    From two Germanic tribes: the Angles and the Saxons.
    Literary work: Beowulf,Caedmon y Cynewulf
    Topics: Poetry, prose, oral literare
  • Middle English Period (1066–1500)
    1066

    Middle English Period (1066–1500)

    Writings were religious in nature,
    character: Chaucer, Thomas Malory y Robert Henryson.
    Literary work: "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
  • The Renaissance (1500–1660)
    1500

    The Renaissance (1500–1660)

    Golden age of English drama.
    Characters: Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Shakespeare
  • The Neoclassical Period (1600–1785)

    The Neoclassical Period (1600–1785)

    The Restoration, The Augustan and The Age of Sensibility.
    Comedies by William Congreve and John Dryden.
    Literary Satire.
    Novelists: Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and Laurence Sterne as well as the poets William Cowper and Thomas Percy.
  • The Romantic Period (1785–1832)

    The Romantic Period (1785–1832)

    British literature.
    Characters: Wordsworth (the prelude), Coleridge (the rime), William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen and Mary Shelley.
  • The Victorian Period (1832–1901)

    The Victorian Period (1832–1901)

    Influential period in all of English literature.
    Prose fiction
    Poets: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold,
  • The Edwardian Period (1901–1914)

    The Edwardian Period (1901–1914)

    Between Victoria’s death and the outbreak of World War I.
    Novelists such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford.
    Notable poets such as Alfred Noyes and William Butler Yeats
  • The Georgian Period (1910–1936)

    The Georgian Period (1910–1936)

    Georgian poets: Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies, and Rupert Brooke.
    Subject matter: rural or pastoral in nature
  • The Modern Period (1914).

    The Modern Period (1914).

    Novelists James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson.
    Focus: narrative, verse, and drama.
  • The Postmodern Period (1945)

    The Postmodern Period (1945)

    Writers: Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M.