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Period: 1785 BCE to 1832 BCE
The Romantic Period (1785–1832)
The time period ends with the passage of the Reform Bill (which signaled the Victorian Era) and with the death of Sir Walter Scott.
his era includes the works of such juggernauts as Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley -
Period: 1600 BCE to 1785 BCE
The Neoclassical Period (1600–1785)
The Neoclassical period is also subdivided into ages, including:
- The Restoration (1660–1700), William Congreve and John Dryden.
- The Augustan Age (1700–1745), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Daniel Defoe was also popular.
- and The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785). the time of Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Hester Lynch Thrale, James Boswell, and, of course, Samuel Johnson -
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Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (450–1066)
This period of literature dates back to their invasion (along with the Jutes) of Celtic England circa 450, A lot of the prose during this time was a translation of something else or otherwise legal, medical, or religious in nature -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English Period (1066–1500)
A huge transition in the language, culture, and lifestyle of England and results in what we can recognize today as a form of “modern” (recognizable) English -
Period: 1500 to
The Renaissance (1500–1660)
critics and literary historians have begun to call this the “Early Modern” period, but here we retain the historically familiar term “Renaissance.” This period is often subdivided into four parts, including:
- the Elizabethan Age (1558–1603)
- the Jacobean Age (1603–1625)
- the Caroline Age (1625–1649)
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The Victorian Period (1832–1901)
This period is named for the reign of Queen Victoria, who ascended to the throne in 1837, and it lasts until her death in 1901. It was a time of great social, religious, intellectual, and economic issues
The Victorian period is in strong contention with the Romantic period for being the most popular, influential, and prolific period in all of English (and world) literature. -
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The Edwardian Period (1901–1914)
This period is named for King Edward VII and covers the period between Victoria’s death and the outbreak of World War.
classic novelists such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, and Henry James (who was born in America but spent most of his writing career in England) -
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The Georgian Period (1910–1936)
Here, we refer to the former description as it applies chronologically and covers, for example, the Georgian poets, such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies, and Rupert Brooke.
The themes and subject matter tended to be rural or pastoral in nature, treated delicately and traditionally rather than with passion -
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The Modern Period
The modern period traditionally applies to works written after the start of World War I.
Some of the most notable writers of this period include the novelists James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster, and Doris Lessing; the poets W.B -
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The Postmodern Period
begins about the time that World War II ended. Many believe it is a direct response to modernism. Some say the period ended about 1990.
Some notable writers of the period include Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively