LITERARY PERIODS

England

MAJOR PERIOD	Subperiods - dates	MAJOR POETS	MAJOR FICTION/
			DRAMA WRITERS

MEDIEVAL	Anglo-Saxon Period 600 - 1100	The Beowulf-poet

	Late Medieval 1100 - 1500	Chaucer The Gawain-poet	Everyman Second Shepherd's Play

RENAISSANCE	Sixteenth Centuryà Elizabethan Era	Sidney Spenser	Shakespeare Marlowe
		Shakespeare
	Seventeenth Century à Restoration Era	Donne and the Metaphysical Poets Milton	Jonson Webster

NEOCLASSICAL	Eighteenth Century	Dryden Pope	Richardson Defoe
		Blake
ROMANTIC	1800 - 1832	Wordsworth Coleridge Keats	Scott The Brontes Austen

VICTORIAN	1837 - 1900	Browning Arnold Housman	George Eliot Dickens Hardy
		Hopkins	Shaw
MODERN	Twentieth Century 1900 - 1989	Pound T. S. Eliot Yeats	Woolf Conrad Lawrence Joyce Beckett

CONTEMPORARY	The 'Nineties	Heaney Larkin	Pinter Stoppard

LITERARY PERIODS

American

MAJOR PERIOD	Subperiods - dates	MAJOR POETS	MAJOR FICTION/
			DRAMA WRITERS

NATIVE	Oral Traditions 15,000BC - present

PURITAN	Seventeenth Century	Bradstreet

REVOLUTION	Eighteenth Century	Bryant

ROMANTICISM	Nineteenth Century 1820-1865	Emerson Whitman Dickinson Poe	Hawthorne Melville

REALISM	Late Nineteenth Century		James Twain

MODERN	Twentieth Century Between the Wars 1914-1945	Stevens Williams Eliot Pound	Faulkner Hemingway Steinbeck O'Neill
	The Beats	Ginsberg Ferlinghetti Snyder	Kerouac Burroughs

CONTEMPORARY	Since the War 1945-	Ammons Ashberry Rich	Baldwin Welty O'Connor