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- HOMERIC or HEROIC PERIOD: (1200-800 BCE)
- CLASSICAL GREEK PERIOD (800-200 BCE)
- CLASSICAL ROMAN PERIOD (200 BCE-455 CE)
- PATRISTIC PERIOD (c. 70 CE-455 CE)
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- THE OLD ENGLISH (ANGLO-SAXON) PERIOD (428-1066 CE)
- THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD (c. 1066-1450 CE)
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- Early Tudor Period (1485-1558)
- Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)
- Jacobean Period (1603-1625)
- Caroline Age (1625-1649)
- Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum (1649-1660)
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Restoration Period (1660-1700)
The Augustan Age (1700-1750)
The Age of Johnson (1750-1790 -
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- Romantic poets wrote about nature, imagination, and individuality in England
- Gothic writings (c. 1790-1890) overlap with the Romantic and Victorian periods
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The end of the Victorian Period is marked by the intellectual movements of Aestheticism and "the Decadence"
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- The Harlem Renaissance marks the rise of black writers
- Realism is the dominant fashion, but the disillusionment with the World Wars lead to new experimentation.
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- Multiculturalism
- Magic Realists