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OLD ENGLISH
--Caedmon c.670
--1000: English language strongly influenced by Medieval French
--Battle of Hastings 1060 |
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MIDDLE ENGLISH
--William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer (1380)
--Thomas Malroy (1450)
--Battle of Agincourt (1415)
--Gutenberg Bible (1456) |
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EARLY TUDOR
--John Skelton
--Thomas More
--Reigns of: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary |
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ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
--Shakespeare
--Spenser
--Christopher Marlowe
--Philip Sidney
--Ben Jonson
--John Lyly |
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JACOBEAN PERIOD
--John Donne
--John Webster |
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CAROLINE PERIOD
--John Milton
--Reign of Charles I |
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Cromwell and the Interregnum
--Andrew Marvell
--Robert Herrick
--Charles I executed (1649) |
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RESTORATION
--William Congreve
--George Etherege
--John Bunyan
--John Dryden
--Reign of Charles II
--Reign of Anne, the last of Stuarts |
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--Alexander Pope
--Daniel Defoe
--Reign of George I (Hanover) |
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--Johnathan Swift
--Henry Fielding
--Thomas Gray
--Reign of George II |
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THE ENLIGHTENMENT
--The GOTHIC NOVEL
--Samuel Johnson
--Mary Wollstonecraft
--Lawrence Sterne
--Horace Walpole
--Thomas Chatterton
--William Cowper
First 30 years of George III
American Revolution |
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EARLY ROMANTIC
--Anne Radcliffe
--William Blake
--William Wordsworth
--Samuel Coleridge
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
--Lord Byron
--John Keats
--Charles Lamb
--Jane Austen
STURM UND DRANG in Germany
Second part of George III |
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MIDDLE ROMANTIC PERIOD
BRITS:
--Thomas Carlyle
--Alfred Tennyson
AMERICAN
--Edgar Allan Poe
--Washington Irving |
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BRIT LATE ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN PERIODS:
--Charles Dickens
--Robert Browning
--Thomas Macaulay
--Emily Bronte
--Charlotte Bronte
AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM:
--Walt Whitman
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
--Herman Melville
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Henry David Thoreau |
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REALISM
Brits:
--George Meredith
--John Ruskin
--Charles Swinburne
--Thomas Hardy
--George Eliot
--Gerard M. Hopkins
American:
--Mark Twain
--Henry James |
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MODERNISM
British:
--William Butler Yeats
--Joseph Conrad
--D.H. Lawrence
--W.H. Auden
--James Joyce
--Virgina Woolf
American:
--Ernest Hemingway
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
--Gertrude Stein
--T.S. Eliot
--Ezra Pound
--W.E.B. Du Bois |
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| Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot |
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| Thinkers of the Enlightenment |
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