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Period: Jan 1, 1350 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle English Period
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Jan 1, 1390
Geoffry Chaucer; The Canterbury Tales
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
The Renaissance
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Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare born
An English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. -
Edmund Spencer; The Faerie Queene
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William Shakespeare; Romeo & Juliet
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William Shakespeare; Macbeth
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John Milton; Paradise Lost
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The Englightenment
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Benjamin Franklin; Poor Richard's Almanack
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Denis Diderot; Encylopedie
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Voltaire; Candide
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Jean-Jacque Rousseau; Emile
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William Wordsworth; Lyrical Ballads
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Period: to
Romantic Period
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Charles Dickens born
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Mary Shelly; Frankenstein
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Lord Byron; Don Juan
Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an "Epic Satire" The first two cantos were published in 1819. Byron continued the collection, finishing 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished 17th canto after his death in 1824. -
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Realism
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky born
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Period: to
Victorian Period (English Literature)
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Mark Twain born
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Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nature
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Ralph Waldo Emerson; The American Scholar
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Henry James born
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Margaret Fuller; Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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Charlotte Bronte; Jane Eyre
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Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
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Lord Tennyson; In Memorian
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Henry David Thoreau; Civil Disobedience
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Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Scarlet Letter
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Herman Melville; Moby Dick
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Virginia Woolf born
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Henry David Thoreau; Walden
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Robert Browning, Men and Women
A collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes -
Walt Whitman; Leaves of Grass
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Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Crime and Punishment
A classic novel of murder and guilt, featuring the conflicted killer Raskolnikov and his intellectually nimble antagonist Porfiry Petrovich -
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Naturalism
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Thomas Hardy; Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Stephen Crane; The Red Badge of Courage
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Frank Norris; McTeague
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Edith Wharton; The House of Mirth
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E.M. Forster; Howard's End
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Modernist Period
Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression, adhering to the modernist maxim to "Make it new." The modernist literary movement was driven by a desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time. -
Edith Wharton; Ethan Frome
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Franz Kafka; The Metamorphosis
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Vincente Basco Ibanez; The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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T.S. Eliot; Prufrock and Other Observations
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T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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T.S. Eliot; The Hollow Men
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F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby
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William Butler Yeats; The Tower
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William Faulkner; The Sound and the Fury
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Ernest Hemingway; A Farewell to Arms
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Paul Sarte; Nausea
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Albert Camus; The Stranger
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The Beat Generation
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Ezra Pound; The Cantos of Ezra Pound
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Samuel Beckett; Waiting for Godot
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Allen Ginsberg; Howl
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Jack Kerouac; On the Road
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William S. Burroughs; Naked Lunch
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Post Modernist Period
The term "post modernist" is used to describe certain characteristics of post–World War II literature (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature. -
Sylvia Plath; Ariel
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Maya Angelou; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Thomas Pynchon; Gravity's Rainbow
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Alice Walker; The Color Purple
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Toni Morrison; Beloved
