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    English Literature Timeline

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    The document summarizes major periods in the history of Western literature, beginning with ancient Greek and Roman works and continuing through modern and postmodern eras. Some key developments include the Homeric epics of ancient Greece, the rise of Christianity and compilation of the Bible, works of Chaucer and other Middle English writers, the English Renaissance and works of Shakespeare, enlightenment thinkers like Locke and Voltaire, the Romantic period and works of poets like Blake and Shelley, Victorian novelists like the Brontës and Dickens, American transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau, modernist experimentation in the 20th century, and increasing recognition of non-Western writers in recent decades.

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    English Literature Timeline

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    The document summarizes major periods in the history of Western literature, beginning with ancient Greek and Roman works and continuing through modern and postmodern eras. Some key developments include the Homeric epics of ancient Greece, the rise of Christianity and compilation of the Bible, works of Chaucer and other Middle English writers, the English Renaissance and works of Shakespeare, enlightenment thinkers like Locke and Voltaire, the Romantic period and works of poets like Blake and Shelley, Victorian novelists like the Brontës and Dickens, American transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau, modernist experimentation in the 20th century, and increasing recognition of non-Western writers in recent decades.

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    The document summarizes major periods in the history of Western literature, beginning with ancient Greek and Roman works and continuing through modern and postmodern eras. Some key developments include the Homeric epics of ancient Greece, the rise of Christianity and compilation of the Bible, works of Chaucer and other Middle English writers, the English Renaissance and works of Shakespeare, enlightenment thinkers like Locke and Voltaire, the Romantic period and works of poets like Blake and Shelley, Victorian novelists like the Brontës and Dickens, American transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau, modernist experimentation in the 20th century, and increasing recognition of non-Western writers in recent decades.

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    English Literature Timeline

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    The classical period (1200 BC – 455 CE)

    Homeric period (1200 – 800 BC)

    Homer → the Iliad, the odyssey

    Classical Greek period (800 – 200 BC)

    Plato, Socrates, Aristotle

    Polis – city state – early democracy

    Classical roman period (200 BC – 455 CE)

    Roman republic

    Julius Caesar

    Ovid, Horace, Virgil, Cicero

    Patristic period (70 CE – 455 CE)

    Early Christian writings

    Saint Augustine

    Saint Cyprian

    Saint Ambrose

    Saint Jerome → compiles the bible → Christianity spread across Europe

    The medieval period (455 CE – 1485 CE)

    The old English (Anglo-Saxon) period (428? – 1485)

     Dark ages (455 – 799 CE)

    Rome falls and barbarian tribes move into Europe.

    Franks, Ostrogoth and Goths ruined Europe

    Angles, Saxons and jutes migrate to Britain

    Early old English poems: Beowulf, the wanderer and the seafarer

     Carolingian renaissance (800 – 850 CE)

    Early medieval grammars, encyclopaedias

    The Middle English period (1066 – 1450 CE)

    Norman French armies invade and conquer England

     Twelfth century renaissance (1100 – 1200 CE)

    Spread in popularity:

    French chivalric romances → Chretien de Troyes


    French fables → Marie de France and jeun de meun

    Produce of great scholastic and theological works

     Medieval period (1200 – 1485 CE)

    Middle English writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, the “Gawain” Poet, the Wakefield master, William
    Langland

    Italian and French authors: Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante, Christine de pisan

    The renaissance and reformation (1485 – 1660 CE)

    Early Tudor period (1485 – 1558)

    War of roses ends with Henry Tudor claiming the throne

    Emerge of Protestantism

    Henry VIII creates the first protestant church in England

    Edmond Spencer (poet)

    Elizabethan period (1558 – 1603)

    Queens Elizabeth saves England from the Spanish invasion

    Early works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, kydd, Sidney

    Jacobean period (1603 – 1625)

    Shakespeare’s late work

    Aemilia lanyer, ben Jonson, john Donne

    Caroline age (1625 – 1649)

    John Milton, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, the “Sons of Ben” (writer)

    Commonwealth period or puritan interregnum (1649 – 1660)

    Cromwell’s puritan dictatorship

    Andrew Marvell, Sir Thomas Browne

    The enlightenment (neoclassical) period (1660 – 1790)

    Restoration period (1660 – 1700)

    British king restoration to the throne

    French and classical influences on poetry and drama

    English writers → John Dryden, john lock, Sir William temple, Samuel Pepys, aphra behn

    French writers → jean Racine and Moliere

    The Augustan age (1700 – 1750)


    Imitation of Virgil and Horace’s literature

    English writers →Addison, Steele, swift and Alexander pope

    French writer → Voltaire (French writer)

    Europe

    The age of Johnson (1750 – 1790)

    The transition toward the upcoming romanticism though the period is still largely neoclassical

    Neoclassical writers → Dr. Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Edward gibbon

    Robert burns, Thomas gray, Cowper, Crabbe → show a movement away from the neoclassical ideal

    America

    Colonial period

    Colonial and revolutionary writers → Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine

    Romantic period (1790 – 1830)

    Europe

    Poets write about nature, imagination, and individuality

    British writers → Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Shelley

    Germans writers → Johann von Goethe

    Jane Austen also writes at this time, though she is typically not categorized with the male romantic
    poets

    Gothic writings (1790 – 1890) overlap with the romantic and Victorian perios

    European writers →Radcliffe, monk lewis, bram stoker

    American writers → poe, hawthorne

    America

    Transcendental period

    writers → emerson, Thoreau

    Victorian period and the 19th century (1832 – 1901)

    Sentimental novels

    British writers → Elizabeth browning, Alfred lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert browning,
    Charles dickens, brotë sisters.

    Pre-Raphaelites → idealize and long for morality of the medieval world → Rossetis, William morris

    The end of this period is marked by intellectual movements of aestheticism and “the decadence” in
    the writings of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde
    America

    Flourish:

    Naturalist writers → Stephen crane

    Free verse poets → Walt Whitman

    Common measure poets → Emily Dickenson

    Modern period (1914 – 1945)

    Britain

    w. b. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, w. h. Auden, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen

    America

    Robert frost and Flannery O’Connor

    The lost generation → Hemingway, stein, Fitzgerald, Faulkner

    The Harlem renaissance marks the rise of black writers → Baldwin and Ellison

    Postmodern period (1945 – onward)

    Modern writers and playwrights experiment with metafiction and fragmentual poetry

    t. s. Eliot, Morrison, Shaw, Beckett, Stoppard, fowles, Calvino, Ginsberg, Pynchon

    Multiculturalism increased canonization of non-Caucasian writes → Langston Hughes, Sandra


    Cisneros, zora Neal Hurston

    Magic realists flourish with surrealistic writings → Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Luis Borges, carpentier,
    Günter grass, salman Rushdie

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