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British Literature Time Periods
British Literature Time Periods
Overview of British Literary Time Periods & Key Authors
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature: 449-1485 (Beowulf, Sir Gawain, Chaucer)
English Renaissance and 17th Century Literature: 1485-1625 (Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson)
Restoration and 18th Century/Enlightenment & Age of Reason: 1625-1798 (Milton, Pope, Gray, Swift, Defoe, Wollstonecraft)
The Romantic Period: 1798-1832 (Austen, Shelley, Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, etc.)
Victorian Literature: 1833-1901 (Wilde, Dickens, Tennyson, Browning, Bronte, Kipling, Harding)
Modern and Postmodern British Literature: 1901-Present (Wells, Greene, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Orwell, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf)
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