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Period: 1200 BCE to 800 BCE
Homeric Or Heroic Period
Greek stories were passed along orally, between them "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey". -
Period: 800 BCE to 200 BCE
Classical Greek Period
Greek writers, playwrights, and philosophers include Gorgias, Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides, and Sophocles. -
Period: 200 BCE to 455
Cassical Roman Period
Greece's culture gave way to Roman power when Rome conquered Greece in 146 CE. Famous writers of this era Plautus, Terence, Horace, Cicero... -
Period: 70 to 455
Patristic Period
The most well known work in this period is "the Confessions of Saint Agustine". -
Period: 428 to 1066
The Old English (anglo-saxon) period
The most well known work in this period is "Beowulf" but we don't know who wrote it. -
Period: 1066 to 1450
The Middle English Period
The most well known autore in this period is Geoffrey Chaucer widely considered the greatest english poet of the Middle English Period. He is best known for writing "The Canterbury Tales". -
Period: 1485 to 1558
Early Tudor Period
The most well known poet in this period was Edmund Spencer, best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. -
Period: 1558 to
Elizabethan Period
The most well known work in this period were "Romeo and Juliet" end "Hamlet" written by the amazing William Shakespeare. -
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Jacobean Period
The most well known work in this period was "Macbeth" written also by Shakespeare. -
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Caroline Age
One of the most popular writers of this period was John Milton and his most known work "Paradise Lost". -
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Commonwealth Period / Puritan Interregnum
In this period John Milton was also a very important writer but we also found writers like Andrew Marvell ("To His Coy Mistress") and Sir Thomas Browne ("Religio Medici"). -
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The Restoration Period
Sample writers include John Dryden, John Locke, Sir William Temple, and Samuel Pepys, and Aphra Behn in England. -
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The Augustan Age
This period is marked by the imitation of Virgil and Horace's literature in English letters. The principal English writers include Addison, Steele, Swift, and Alexander Pope. -
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The Age of Johnson
Major writers include Dr. Samuel Johnson ("The Patriot"), Boswell, and Edward Gibbon ("Christians and the fall of Rome") who represent the Neoclassical tendencies, while writers like Robert Burns, Thomas Gray ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"), Cowper, and Crabbe show movement away from the Neoclassical ideal. -
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The Romantic Period
The most well known works of this era are:
· Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
· Frankstein (Mary Shelley)
· Orlando (Virginia Wolf)
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The Victorian Period and the 19th Century
The most well known works of this period are:
· Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
· Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
· Shelock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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The Modern Period
The most well known works of this era are:
· El amante de Lady Chatterley (D. H. Lawrence)
· The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
· The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
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The Postmodern Period
The most well known works of this period are:
· Lord Of The Flies (William Golding)
· The Lord of the Rings (Tokien)
· Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling)
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