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GRE Literature: Time Periods

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1. 1727-1760 (House of Hanover) Jonathan Swift - Henry Fielding - Thomas Gray
Middle Romantic period
Reign of George I
Reign of Anne
Postmodern and Contemporary Period

2. AD 1500-1558 (Reigns of Henry VII - VIII - Edward VI - and Mary) John Skelton - Thomas More
Old English period
Jacobean period
Transcendalism
Early Tudor period

3. AD 1649-1660 (Charles I executed) John Milton - Robert Herrick - Andrew Marvell
Cromwell and the Interregnum
Elizabethan period
Old English period
Early Romantic period

4. AD 1660-1714 (Reign of Charles II) William Congreve - George Etherege - John Bunyan - John Dryden
Reign of Anne
Restoration period
Late Romantic and Victorian periods
Old English period

5. 1869-1901 John Ruskin - George Meredith - Charles Swinburne - George Swinburne - George Eliot Gerard - M. Hopkins - Thomas Hardy - Mark Twain (American) - Henry James (American)
Realism
Late Romantic and Victorian periods
Old English period
Elizabethan period

6. 1837-1869 (first 32 yrs of Victorians reign) Thomas Macaulay - Emily Bronte - Charlotte Bronte - Charles Dickens - William Makepeace Thackeray - Robert Browning
Caroline period
Cromwell and the Interregnum
Reign of George I
Late Romantic and Victorian periods

7. AD 1714-1727 (the last Stuart monarch) Daniel Defoe - Alexander Pope
Reign of Anne
Late Romantic and Victorian periods
Old English period
Realism

8. 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
Middle English period
Old English period
Early Tudor period
The Enlightenment period

9. AD 1603-1625 (Reign of James I) Ben Johnson
Jacobean period
Middle English period
Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Middle Romantic period

10. 1820-1837 (reigns of George IV and William IV) Charles Lamb - Jane Austen - Thomas Carlyle - Alfred Tennyson - Washington Irving (American) - Edgar Allan Poe (American)
Middle Romantic period
Reign of George I
Transcendalism
Middle English period

11. 1837-1869 (America only) Nathaniel Hawthorne - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau - Walt Whitman - Herman Melville
Cromwell and the Interregnum
Transcendalism
Jacobean period
Modernism

12. AD 400-1300 (c. 1000 the English language became strongly influenced by medieval French) Caedmon (c. 670) - Author of Beowulf (c. 750)
Old English period
Late Romantic and Victorian periods
Restoration period
Transcendalism

13. 1960-debated
Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Modernism
Middle English period
Reign of George I

14. 1790-1820 (last 30 yrs George III) Anne Radcliffe - William Blake - William Wordsworth - Samuel Coleridge - Percy Bysshe Shelly - Lord Byron - John Keats
Reign of George I
Early Romantic period
Middle English period
Reign of Anne

15. 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
Middle English period
Modernism
Restoration period
Early Tudor period

16. AD 1625-1649 (Reign of Charles I) John Donne - John Webster
Realism
Caroline period
The Enlightenment period
Old English period

17. AD 1300-1500 William Langland (1380) - Geoffrey Chaucer (1380) - Thomas Malory (1450)
Middle English period
Transcendalism
Reign of Anne
Early Tudor period

18. AD 1558-1603 (Reign Elizabeth I) Philip Sidney - Edmund Spenser - John Lyly - Christopher Marlowe - William Shakespeare
Cromwell and the Interregnum
Elizabethan period
Realism
Reign of Anne

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