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GRE Literature: Time Periods

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1. AD 1603-1625 (Reign of James I) Ben Johnson
Old English period
Caroline period
Jacobean period
Early Romantic period

2. 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
Cromwell and the Interregnum
Modernism
Restoration period
Middle English period

3. 1837-1869 (first 32 yrs of Victorians reign) Thomas Macaulay - Emily Bronte - Charlotte Bronte - Charles Dickens - William Makepeace Thackeray - Robert Browning
Modernism
Cromwell and the Interregnum
Early Romantic period
Late Romantic and Victorian periods

4. AD 1660-1714 (Reign of Charles II) William Congreve - George Etherege - John Bunyan - John Dryden
Restoration period
The Enlightenment period
Middle English period
Cromwell and the Interregnum

5. 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
Jacobean period
Elizabethan period
Reign of Anne
The Enlightenment period

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

7. 1727-1760 (House of Hanover) Jonathan Swift - Henry Fielding - Thomas Gray
Reign of George I
Caroline period
Middle Romantic period
Jacobean period

8. AD 1558-1603 (Reign Elizabeth I) Philip Sidney - Edmund Spenser - John Lyly - Christopher Marlowe - William Shakespeare
Realism
Old English period
Elizabethan period
Reign of Anne

9. 1820-1837 (reigns of George IV and William IV) Charles Lamb - Jane Austen - Thomas Carlyle - Alfred Tennyson - Washington Irving (American) - Edgar Allan Poe (American)
Early Romantic period
Middle Romantic period
Jacobean period
Postmodern and Contemporary Period

10. AD 1500-1558 (Reigns of Henry VII - VIII - Edward VI - and Mary) John Skelton - Thomas More
Middle English period
Reign of Anne
Jacobean period
Early Tudor period

11. 1837-1869 (America only) Nathaniel Hawthorne - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau - Walt Whitman - Herman Melville
Caroline period
Early Tudor period
Transcendalism
Modernism

12. AD 1625-1649 (Reign of Charles I) John Donne - John Webster
Late Romantic and Victorian periods
Caroline period
Early Romantic period
Reign of Anne

13. AD 1649-1660 (Charles I executed) John Milton - Robert Herrick - Andrew Marvell
Cromwell and the Interregnum
Modernism
Reign of Anne
Middle English period

14. 1960-debated
Middle Romantic period
Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Jacobean period
Modernism

15. AD 1300-1500 William Langland (1380) - Geoffrey Chaucer (1380) - Thomas Malory (1450)
The Enlightenment period
Early Tudor period
Cromwell and the Interregnum
Middle English period

16. 1869-1901 John Ruskin - George Meredith - Charles Swinburne - George Swinburne - George Eliot Gerard - M. Hopkins - Thomas Hardy - Mark Twain (American) - Henry James (American)
Early Romantic period
Old English period
Reign of George I
Realism

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

18. AD 1714-1727 (the last Stuart monarch) Daniel Defoe - Alexander Pope
Old English period
Early Tudor period
Middle English period
Reign of Anne