Literary periods

Literary periods

1. The classical period (1200 BCE - 455 CE)

   • HEROIC PERIOD
   • CLASSICAL GREEK PERIOD
   • CLASSICAL ROMAN PERIOD
   • PATRISTIC PERIOD

2. The medieval period (455 CE-1485 CE)

   • THE OLD ENGLISH (ANGLO-SAXON) PERIOD
   • THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD

3. The Renaissance and Reformation

   • EARLY TUDOR PERIOD
   • ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
   • JACOBEAN PERIOD
   • CAROLINE AGE
   • COMMONWEALTH AND PURITAN INTERREGNUM

4. The Englightenment

5. The Romantic period

   • THEMRES
     • NATURE
     • MAGINATION
     • INDIVIDUALITY

6. The Victorian period and the 19th century

   • MOST PROMINENT BRITISH AUTHORS
     • Elizabeth Browning
     • Alfred Lord Tennysonters
     • Robert Browning
     • Charles Dickens
     • Brönte sisters

7. The modern period

   • British authors
     • W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, and Wilfred Owen
   • American modernism
     • Jazz Age
     • The Lost Generation
     • The Harlem Renaissance

8. The Postmodern period

   • T. S. Eliot, Morrison, Shaw, Beckett, Stoppard, Fowles, Calvino, Ginsberg, Pynchon.