LIterary Periods Throughout the AGES!

Medieval

Period: 500 to Oct 10, 1500

Beowulf

Jan 1, 1000

Beowulf

The Story of Roland

Jan 1, 1100

The Song of Roland

The Nibelangenlied

Jan 1, 1200

Canterbury Tales

Jan 1, 1390

Chaucer

The Renaissance

Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Dec 31, 1670

Renaissance

Shakespeare Born

Apr 26, 1564

SHakespeare

The Faerie Queene

Dec 1, 1590

Edmund Spencer

Romeo And Juliet by Shakespeare

Jan 1, 1597

Romeo and Juliet
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MacBeth

Jan 1, 1603

MacBeth

Milton's Paradise Lost

Jan 1, 1667

PAradise lost

Enlightment PEriod

Period: Jan 1, 1700 to Dec 31, 1800

Enlightenment PEriod

Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac

Jan 1, 1733

Poor Richard's Almanac

Diderot's Encyclopedie

Jan 1, 1750

Diderot's Encyclopedie

Voltaire's Candide

Jan 1, 1759

Voltaire's Candide

Romantic

Period: Jan 1, 1798 to Dec 31, 1870

Romantic Period

Realism

Period: Jan 1, 1820 to Dec 31, 1920

Realism

Transcendental Period

Period: Jan 1, 1830 to Dec 1, 1860

Transcendental Period

Victorian Period

Period: Jan 1, 1837 to Dec 31, 1902

Victorian Period

Naturalism

Period: Jan 1, 1870 to Dec 1, 1920

Naturalism

Bloomsbury Group

Period: Jan 1, 1903 to Dec 31, 1964

The Bloomsbury Group

Harlem Renaissance

Jan 1, 1920

Harlem Renaissance

Modernism

Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1965

Modernism

Beat Generation

Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1965

Beat Generation

Jen Paul Sartre Existentialism

Oct 10, 1945

Existentialism

Beat Generation

Jan 1, 1950

Post Modernism

Period: Jan 1, 1965 to Oct 11, 2012

Post Modernism