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History of English Literature |
The whole history of English
Literature has been divided into six main Eras (in bold letters) which have
further been dissected into their respective sub divisions, for convenience.
The time period mentioned with each main era determines the range (though
exceeds the time period mentioned in sub-division) of its impact on the
literary tendency. For example, though the Medieval age ends on 1400 but the influence
of Medievalism continued until 1516.
1- MEDIEVAL (650 – 1516) |
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Anglo-Saxon |
650 – 1066 |
Caedmon, Cynwulf |
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Norman Age |
1066 – 1350 |
Villon |
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Age of Chaucer |
1350 – 1400 |
Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, Caxton, Malory,
Gower, Wycliffe |
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2-
RENAISSANCE (1516 –
1660)
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Renaissance |
1400 – 1578 |
Caxton, Malory, Machiavelli, Marlowe, Montaigne |
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Elizabethan Age |
1578 – 1625 |
Marlowe, Montaigne, Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney,
Bacon, Lyly, Nash, Ben Johnson |
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Age of Milton |
1625 – 1660 |
John Milton, John Donne |
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3-
RESRTORATION (1660 –
1700)
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Age of Restoration |
1660 – 1700 |
John Dryden, Tillotson, John Bunyan |
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4-
CLASSICISM (1700 – 1770)
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Age of Pope/Augustine Age |
1700 – 1740 |
Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe |
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Age of Johnson |
1740 – 1798 |
Richardson, William Blake, Henry Fielding,
Goldsmith, Cowper, Dr. Samuel Johnson |
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5-
ROMANTICISM (1770 – 1890)
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Romantic Age |
1798 – 1832 |
William Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Shelley, Keats, Charles Lamb, Hazlitt, Jane Austen |
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Victorian Era |
1832 – 1890 |
Tennyson, Browning, Charles Dickens, George
Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Carlyle, Ruskin |
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6-
MODERN AGE (1890 –
1960)
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Foxily 20th Century |
1890 – 1930 |
T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy |
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20th Century |
1930 – 1960 |
Sylvia Plath, Frank, Lewis, James Hilton |
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