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Anglo Saxon period, prose
Caedmon, Cynewulf -
Religious writings
Chaucer, Piers Plawman -
Also called "Early Modern"
divided in 4 parts:
Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline and Commonwealth age -
Theater, comedies
Also divided in 3 ages
Restoration, Augustan and Sensibility age
Willian Congreve, John Dryden -
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wlliam Blake
There was a period also called the Gothic era -
Named for the reign of Queen Victoria.
Also divided into "early-mid and late periods"
Charles Dickens, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Named for King Edward VII
Novelists: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford -
It refers to the reign of George V , but also other successors.
Poetry
Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield -
It applies to works written after the World War I
Some novelists: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad
The end date is not clear -
It began by the end of World War II
Poststructuralist literary theory and criticism developed during this time.