Poetry Movements Timeline By FusionDallasHumanities Period: 400 to 1500 Medieval Period 1000 Beowulf 1100 Song of Roland 1389 Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales Period: 1500 to 1670 {English} Renaissance Period 1589 William Shakespeare First plays around this time 1667 John Milton Paradise Lost Period: 1700 to 1800 Enlightenment 1750 Denis Diderot First Encyclopedie Period: 1798 to 1870 Romantic Period Period: 1820 to 1920 Realism Period: 1830 to 1860 {American} Transcendental Movement Period: 1837 to 1901 Victorian Period Period: 1850 to 2020 Existentialism Period: 1870 to 1920 Naturalism Period: 1910 to 1965 Modernism Period: 1945 to 1965 📌The Beat Generation Period: 1965 to 2020 Post-Modernism