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Periods of English Literature

1914- The Modern Period

The Dummury

This period has produced major achievements in all the literary genres. Among the notable writers are the poets W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Robert Graves, Dylan Thomas, and Seamus

1910-1936 The Georgian Period

Georgian Period refers to the reigns in England of the four successive Georges (1714-1830) and (more frequently) to George V (1910-36) Georgian poets designate a group of writers in the latter era who loomed large in anthologies entitled Georgian Poetry.

1901-1914 The Edwardian Period

Many of the major achievements were in prose fiction— works by Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and Henry James

1830-1901 Victorian Period

The Summury

The most prominent essayists of the period were Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Arnold, and Walter Pater; the most distinguished of many excellent noveli

1785-1830 The Romantic Period

Major English writers of the period, in addition to Wordsworth and Coleridge, were the poets Robert Burns, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Walter.

1745-1785 The Age of Sensibility

It is called “the Age of Sensibility,” in recognition of the high value that many Britons .dominant position of Samuel Johnson (1709-84) and his literary and intellectual circle,

1700-1745 The Augustan Age

the phrase was commonly used to refer to the literary period in the eighteenth century and afterwards The most important writers of the time (including Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and Joseph Addison)

1660-1700 The Restoration

The period takes its name from the restoration of Charles II to the English throne. Sir George Etherege, William Wycherley, William Congreve and John Dryden were prominent playwrights during this period.

1649-1660 Commonwealth Period

1625-1649 Caroline Age

The Caroline era refers to the period in English and Scottish history named for the 24-year reign of Charles I.There were developments in the arts and sinces .

1603-1625 Jacobean Age

It was the period of flourishing writing .The most famous writers of the period were John Donne and the King James translation of the Bible.

1558-1603 Elizabethan Age

It was a great age of English literature especially in drama. The most famous writers of the period were Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe and Eillam Shakespeare

1066-1500 Middle English period

It saw a series of major changes in the language, life, and culture of England from the Anglo-Saxon era to the reign of Henry VII.

450-1066 Old English (or Anglo -Saxon) Period

The Summury

It extends back more than 6,000 years to the reign of William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest of England in 1066.