English literature

By Heylin
  • Period: 450 to 1066

    Old English (Anglo-Saxo)

    Oral traditions
    Poetry
    Heroism
  • 1000

    Beowulf

  • 1100

    The song of Roland

  • 1200

    The Nibelungenlied

  • 1300

    The story of the Volsungs

  • 1390

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    The canterbury
  • Period: 1500 to

    Renaissance|

    Drama
    Poetry
  • 1564

    William Shakespeare

    Roman & Julieta 1597
    Macbeth 1603

  • Edmund Spenser

    The Faerie Queen

  • John Miton

    Paradise Lost
  • Period: to

    Neoclassical

  • Restoration 1660- 1700

    John Dryden,
    Willam Congreve,
    Samuel Butter,
    Aphra Behn

  • Sensibility

    Samuel Johnson,
    Edmun Burk,
    Edward Gibbon,
    Thomas Percy

  • Enlightenment

    Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack 1733
    Denis Diderot, Encyclopedie 1750

  • Augustan 1700 - 1750

    Alexander Pope,
    Johnatan Swift,
    Daniel Defoe

  • William Words Worth

    Lyrical Ballads
  • Period: to

    Romantic

  • Period: to

    Realism

  • Lond Byron

    Don Juan
  • Period: to

    Victorian

    Novels,
    Poetry

  • Charles Dickens

    Oliver Twist

  • Charlotte Bronte

    Jane Eyre

  • Emily Bronte

    Wuthering Heights

  • Lord Tennyson

    In Memoriam

  • Natnaniel Hawthorne

    The Scarlet Letter

  • Herman Melville

    Moby Dick

  • Others

    Samuel Taylor,
    Jane Austen,
    Mathew Lewis,
    William Beckford
  • Period: to

    Naturalism

  • The Modern

  • Edith Wharton

    The House Mirth

  • Gustave Flaubert

    Madame Bovary

  • Theodore Dreiser

    Ethan Frome

  • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

    The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse

  • Mary Shelley

    Frankenstein

  • Existentialism

    Paul Sartre, Nausea 1938
    Albert Camus, The Stranger 1942
  • Period: to

    Post Modernism

    Samuel Beckett, Wating for Godot
    Joseph Heller
    Anthony Burgess