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Romantic Period 1789-1832
Some famous authors of this time include:
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Lord Byron: Don Juan I and II
Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
Edgar Allan Poe: Poems Historical Notes:
French Revolution begins this year
The Missouri Compromise is written -
Early Victorian Age (English Literature) 1832-1870
Some famous pieces/authors:
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature
Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
(also a famous author in the Romantic Period)
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights & harlotte Bronte:Jane Eyre
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Scarlet Letter
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
*Note: She wrote this before the American Civil War
Charles Darwin: Origin of the Species -
American Civil War
*1860-1865 — American Civil War
Confederate Army against the Union The end of the War coincides with the end of the Early Victorian Age -
Realistic Period (American Literature) 1865-1914
Some famous pieces/authors: Karl Marx: Das Kapital
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest -
Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period 1900-1930
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
E.M. Forster: A Passage to India
Earnest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
W.B. Yeats: Collected Poems
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony -
Edwardian Period 1901-1910
Some famous authors/pieces: Jack London: The Call of the Wild
(He was also a muckraker)
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
John Millington Synge:Playboy of the Western World
D.H. Lawrence:Sons and Lovers -
World War One 1914-1918
I added this event because this war had a big impact on many authors of the time. Many authors chose to write about the war. This time is still under Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period, but the WWI became a mark in literary history, and some argue it is a "period" in literature. T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (poem)
James Joyce: Ulysses
T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land
(very hard read, but a great piece of work)
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry -
Roaring 20's
Roaring Twenties History This was a huge party era for America. Many people were living in cities than on farms. This brought a huge social change for Americans. Though this time was short lived because soon after came the Great Depression -
Great Depression
Great Depression Stock Market crashes leading America into the Great Depression. Many people were left without a job. -
The Second World War 1939-1945
James Joyce: Finnegan’s Wake
George Orwell: Animal Farm
(This book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before the Second World War through the use of allergory)
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Vladmir Nabokov: Lolita
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Theodore Roethke: The Far Field -
US Enters World War II
Great Depression Timeline
Great Depression ends. Preparations for World War II stimulated the American economy and effectively brought an end to the Great Depression -
Postmodernist Period 1965-?
Sylvia Plath, Ariel
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club -
Contemporary 1990s? -today
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter series
Stephanie Meyer: Twilight Saga
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club
George R.R. Martin: A Game of Thrones
Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha
