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1200 BCE
The Classical Period (1200 BCE-455 BCE)
Homeric or Heroic Period (1200-800 BCE)
Classical Greek Period (800-200 BCE)
Classical Roman Period (200 BCE-455 BCE)
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450
Old English Period (450CE – 1066CE)
Also called Anglo-Saxon literature, it was written in old English.
Old English literature refers to poetry and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066. -
1066
Middle English Period: (1066 -1500)
Before the conquest, rhyme had begun to supplant rather than supplement alliteration in some poems, which continued to use the older four-stress line. -
1390
Gower
Confessio amantis -
1392
Chaucer
Canterbury tales -
1485
Malory
Morte d'Arthur
The Death of Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's retelling of the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table -
1500
Renaissance: 1500-1600
Poetry in the Renaissance became one of the most valued forms of literature and was often accompanied by music. -
1516
Sir Thomas More
Utopia -
Neoclassical Period: 1600-1785
This time period is broken down into three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the Age of Johnson. Writers of the Neoclassical period tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks. -
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear -
Romantic Period: 1785-1832
The movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy. -
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads -
Victorian Age: 1832-1901
The 19th century is considered by some to be the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. It was in the Victorian era that the novel became the leading literary genre in English. -
Elizabeth barrett browning
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point -
Edwardian Period: 1901-1910
Edwardian era writers focused on the bigger picture: subversive ideas were presented metaphorically, symbolically, and in opposition to the liberating force of nature. -
Georgian Period: 1910-1936
Georgian literature, produced primarily in monasteries, was ecclesiastical; hymns and religious biographies and chronicles as well as Biblical and liturgical translations are among the principal works surviving from this period. -
Modern Period: (1910 to 1950)
Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century. -
Virginia Woolf
The Waves -
Postmodern Period: 1950 - 2000
Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues. -
Dylan Thomas
Collected histories -
Roland Barthes
Image-Music-Text -
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter -
Contemporary Period (2000 - Today)
The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century. The measure of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) the year 2001 to the present. -
John Green
Paper Towns
Let it snow
Lookinf for Alaska
The fault in our stars
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Becca fitzpatrick
Hush Hush
Crescendo
Silencio
Finale
Dangerous liars
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