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GRE Literature: Time Periods

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1. AD 1500-1558 (Reigns of Henry VII - VIII - Edward VI - and Mary) John Skelton - Thomas More
Reign of George I
Cromwell and the Interregnum
Middle English period
Early Tudor period

2. 1820-1837 (reigns of George IV and William IV) Charles Lamb - Jane Austen - Thomas Carlyle - Alfred Tennyson - Washington Irving (American) - Edgar Allan Poe (American)
Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Middle Romantic period
Caroline period
The Enlightenment period

3. AD 1300-1500 William Langland (1380) - Geoffrey Chaucer (1380) - Thomas Malory (1450)
Realism
Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Middle English period
Transcendalism

4. 1869-1901 John Ruskin - George Meredith - Charles Swinburne - George Swinburne - George Eliot Gerard - M. Hopkins - Thomas Hardy - Mark Twain (American) - Henry James (American)
Caroline period
Realism
Transcendalism
Reign of George I

5. 1901-1939 William Butler Yeats - Joseph Conrad - D.H. Lawrence - W.H. Auden - James Joyce - Virginia Woolf - Ernie Hemingway (American) - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Gertrude Stein (American) - T.S. Eliot (American) - Ezra Pound (American) - W.E.B. Du Bois
Late Romantic and Victorian periods
Cromwell and the Interregnum
The Enlightenment period
Modernism

6. 1790-1820 (last 30 yrs George III) Anne Radcliffe - William Blake - William Wordsworth - Samuel Coleridge - Percy Bysshe Shelly - Lord Byron - John Keats
Middle Romantic period
Early Romantic period
The Enlightenment period
Elizabethan period

7. AD 1660-1714 (Reign of Charles II) William Congreve - George Etherege - John Bunyan - John Dryden
Early Tudor period
Late Romantic and Victorian periods
Early Romantic period
Restoration period

8. 1727-1760 (House of Hanover) Jonathan Swift - Henry Fielding - Thomas Gray
Early Tudor period
Old English period
Early Romantic period
Reign of George I

9. 1837-1869 (America only) Nathaniel Hawthorne - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau - Walt Whitman - Herman Melville
Transcendalism
Early Romantic period
Reign of Anne
The Enlightenment period

10. 1960-debated
Postmodern and Contemporary Period
The Enlightenment period
Restoration period
Middle English period

11. AD 400-1300 (c. 1000 the English language became strongly influenced by medieval French) Caedmon (c. 670) - Author of Beowulf (c. 750)
Realism
Middle Romantic period
Old English period
Early Romantic period

12. AD 1603-1625 (Reign of James I) Ben Johnson
Early Romantic period
Late Romantic and Victorian periods
Elizabethan period
Jacobean period

13. 1760-1790 (Reign of George II - first 30 yrs of George III - American Revolution - Gothic Novel) Samuel Johnson - Lawrence Sterne - Horace Walpole - Thomas Chatterton - Mary Wollstonecraft - William Cowper
Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Middle English period
The Enlightenment period
Late Romantic and Victorian periods

14. AD 1558-1603 (Reign Elizabeth I) Philip Sidney - Edmund Spenser - John Lyly - Christopher Marlowe - William Shakespeare
Jacobean period
Elizabethan period
Transcendalism
Middle English period

15. 1837-1869 (first 32 yrs of Victorians reign) Thomas Macaulay - Emily Bronte - Charlotte Bronte - Charles Dickens - William Makepeace Thackeray - Robert Browning
Reign of George I
Middle English period
Late Romantic and Victorian periods
The Enlightenment period

16. AD 1649-1660 (Charles I executed) John Milton - Robert Herrick - Andrew Marvell
Cromwell and the Interregnum
Reign of George I
Restoration period
Jacobean period

17. AD 1714-1727 (the last Stuart monarch) Daniel Defoe - Alexander Pope
Reign of Anne
Elizabethan period
Reign of George I
Restoration period

18. AD 1625-1649 (Reign of Charles I) John Donne - John Webster
Jacobean period
Restoration period
Caroline period
Late Romantic and Victorian periods