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Timeline of English literature

  • Old English period
    450

    Old English period

    Caedmon y Cynewulf
  • Period: 450 to 1066

    Old English period

    Caedmon y Cynewulf
  • Period: 1066 to 1500

    Middle English period

    Geoffrey Ghaucer (1382-1385)
    Plays: Troilo y crecida 1385
    El Cuento del Caballero 1382
  • Middle English period
    1500

    Middle English period

    Geoffrey Ghaucer (1382-1385)
    Plays: Troilo y crecida 1385
    El Cuento del Caballero 1382
  • Period: 1500 to

    The Renaissance

    XVI son Philip Sidney y Edmund Spenser.
    William Shakespeare
    Thomas Kyd; Tragedia española (1586)
    Christopher Marlowe; La trágica historia del doctor Fausto (1604) y El judío de Malta (1633)
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    Neoclassical Period

    John Locke
    David Hume
    Thomas Hobbes; Leviatán (1651)
    John Dryden; Absalón y Ajitófel (1681-1682), La conquista de Granada (1670)
    Thomas Otway; Venecia preservada (1682)
    Alexander Pope; Essay on criticism (1711).
  • The Renaissance

    The Renaissance

    XVI son Philip Sidney y Edmund Spenser.
    William Shakespeare
    Thomas Kyd; Tragedia española (1586)
    Christopher Marlowe; La trágica historia del doctor Fausto (1604) y El judío de Malta (1633)
  • Neoclassical Period

    Neoclassical Period

    John Locke
    David Hume
    Thomas Hobbes; Leviatán (1651)
    John Dryden; Absalón y Ajitófel (1681-1682), La conquista de Granada (1670)
    Thomas Otway; Venecia preservada (1682)
    Alexander Pope; Essay on criticism (1711).
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    Romantic period

    Wordsworth, Coleridge, William, Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen
    and Mary Shelley
    Gothic era (1786-1800)
    Matthew Lewis, Anne Radcliffe and William Beckford
  • Romantic period

    Romantic period

    Wordsworth, Coleridge, William, Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen
    and Mary Shelley
    Gothic era (1786-1800)
    Matthew Lewis, Anne Radcliffe and William Beckford
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    Victorian period

    Robert y Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson y Matthew Arnold
    Thomas Carlyle, John ruskin y Walter Pater
    Charles Dickens, Charlotte y Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Gackell, Gerge Eilot, Anthony Trollopr,Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackeray y Samuel Butler
  • Victorian period

    Victorian period

    Robert y Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson y Matthew Arnold
    Thomas Carlyle, John ruskin y Walter Pater
    Charles Dickens, Charlotte y Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Gackell, Gerge Eilot, Anthony Trollopr,Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackeray y Samuel Butler
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    Edwardian period

    Classic nonelists: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox, Rudyard Kipling
    Notable Poets: Alfred Noyes y William Butler Yeats
    Playwrights: James Barrie, Geoge Bernard Shaw y John Galsworthy
  • Period: to

    Giorgiano period

    Ralph Hodgson, John masefield WH Davies y rupert Brooke
  • Edwardian period

    Edwardian period

    Classic nonelists: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox, Rudyard Kipling
    Notable Poets: Alfred Noyes y William Butler Yeats
    Playwrights: James Barrie, Geoge Bernard Shaw y John Galsworthy
  • Giorgiano period

    Giorgiano period

    Ralph Hodgson, John masefield WH Davies y rupert Brooke
  • Modern period

    Modern period

    Novelists: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, DH Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, EM Forster and Doris Lessing;
    the poets WB Yeats, TS Eliot, WH Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owens, Dylan Thomas and Robert Graves; and the DRamaturgos Tom Stoppard, George
    Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Harold pinter and Caryl Churchill
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    Modern period

    Novelists: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, DH Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, EM Forster and Doris Lessing;
    the poets WB Yeats, TS Eliot, WH Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owens, Dylan Thomas and Robert Graves; and the DRamaturgos Tom Stoppard, George
    Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Harold pinter and Caryl Churchill
  • Modern Post Period

    Modern Post Period

    Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M Lively, Ian Banks
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    Modern Post Period

    Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M Lively, Ian Banks