ENGLISH LITERATURE

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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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