Restoration

"The Pilgrim's Progress"

Restoration

"MacFlecknoe"

Restoration

"Oroonoko"

Restoration

"The Middle Passage" and "A Free Man"

Eighteenth Century

"The Royal Exchange"

Eighteenth Century

"A Modest Proposal"

and
"Description of a City Shower" 

Eighteenth Century

"Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat"

Eighteenth Century

"Epistle to a Lady"

Eighteenth Century

Dictionary -- "Preface" and "Nature"

"Rambler"

Eighteenth Century

"The Deserted Village"

Romantic

"The Mouse's Petition"

Romantic

"To a Mouse"

Romantic

"The Lamb" and "The Tyger"

Romantic

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Romantic

"The Thorn"

"Simon Lee"

"Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known"

"Nutting"

Romantic

"Ode to the West Wind"

Romantic

"Ode to a Nightingale"

Romantic

"Frankenstein"

1830-1901

Victorian

"Porphyria's Lover"

"My Last Duchess"

Victorian

"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"

Victorian

"Hard Times"

Victorian

"The Goblin Market"

Victorian

"Silas Marner"

Victorian

"The Importance of Being Earnest"

Sought to overthrow literary and artistic conventions of the past, like Realism, and replace them with radically new modes of representation.

Virginia Woolf

T.S. Eliot

William Butler Yeats

W.H. Auden

the 1930's, post-war literature, and the no man's land between modernism and postmodernism. Whereas modernism tends to focus inward on the self, intermodernism is "centered upon work, community, and other aspects of social commitment." Calls back to Realism.

George Orwell, W.H. Auden

Grounded in the idea that "reality" can never be fully discovered and described. Tends to be politically motivated, attempting to analyze and dismantle oppressive systems of power.

Nadine Gordimer, Philip Larkin, Derek Walcott, John Agard, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Tom Stoppard, and Carol Ann Duffy