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Period | Time Frame | Key Characteristics | Famous Authors and Works |
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) | 450-1066 | Oral tradition, epic poetry, Christian themes, use of Old English | Beowulf (Anonymous), The Seafarer (Anonymous) |
Middle English | 1066-1500 | Feudalism, chivalric romance, religious themes, courtly love, use of Middle English | Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous) |
Renaissance | 1500-1660 | Revival of classical learning, humanism, exploration, individualism, use of Early Modern English | William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth), Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus), Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queene) |
Elizabethan Era | 1558-1603 | Flourishing of drama and poetry, focus on humanism and the complexities of life and love | William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18, Romeo and Juliet), Ben Jonson (Volpone) |
Jacobean Era | 1603-1625 | Darker themes, exploration of human flaws, metaphysical poetry | John Donne (The Flea), Thomas Middleton (The Changeling) |
Caroline Age | 1625-1649 | Courtly culture, poetry focused on love and loyalty, metaphysical and cavalier poets | John Milton (Lycidas), Robert Herrick (To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time) |
Commonwealth/Interregnum | 1649-1660 | Puritanism, religious and political writings, decline in drama | John Milton (Paradise Lost), Andrew Marvell (To His Coy Mistress) |
Restoration | 1660-1700 | Comedy of manners, satirical works, heroic drama, beginnings of the novel | John Dryden (Absalom and Achitophel), Aphra Behn (Oroonoko) |
18th Century/Enlightenment | 1700-1798 | Rationalism, satire, the novel, development of journalism, neoclassicism | Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels), Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock), Samuel Johnson (Dictionary of the English Language) |
Romantic Period | 1798-1837 | Emphasis on emotion, nature, individualism, rebellion against industrialization | William Wordsworth (Lyrical Ballads), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) |
Victorian Era | 1837-1901 | Social criticism, realism, focus on morality and family, exploration of social class issues | Charles Dickens (Great Expectations), Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre), Thomas Hardy (Tess of the d’Urbervilles) |
Edwardian Era | 1901-1914 | Continuation of Victorian themes, more critical of social norms, rise of modernism | E.M. Forster (A Room with a View), H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds) |
Modern Period | 1914-1945 | Experimental styles, stream of consciousness, disillusionment post-WWI, existential themes | James Joyce (Ulysses), T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land), Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway) |
Postmodern Period | 1945-present | Fragmentation, unreliable narrators, metafiction, blending of genres, questioning of traditional narratives | Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot), Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale) |
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