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09/21/2010

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Term
400-1300
Definition
OLD ENGLISH

--Caedmon c.670
--1000: English language strongly influenced by Medieval French
--Battle of Hastings 1060
Term
1300-1500
Definition
MIDDLE ENGLISH

--William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer (1380)
--Thomas Malroy (1450)
--Battle of Agincourt (1415)
--Gutenberg Bible (1456)
Term
1500-1558
Definition
EARLY TUDOR

--John Skelton
--Thomas More

--Reigns of: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary
Term
1558-1603
Definition
ELIZABETHAN PERIOD

--Shakespeare
--Spenser
--Christopher Marlowe
--Philip Sidney
--Ben Jonson
--John Lyly
Term
1603-1625
Definition
JACOBEAN PERIOD

--John Donne
--John Webster
Term
1625-1649
Definition
CAROLINE PERIOD

--John Milton

--Reign of Charles I
Term
1649-1660
Definition
Cromwell and the Interregnum

--Andrew Marvell
--Robert Herrick

--Charles I executed (1649)
Term
1660-1714
Definition
RESTORATION

--William Congreve
--George Etherege
--John Bunyan
--John Dryden

--Reign of Charles II
--Reign of Anne, the last of Stuarts
Term
1714-1727
Definition
--Alexander Pope
--Daniel Defoe

--Reign of George I (Hanover)
Term
1727-1760
Definition
--Johnathan Swift
--Henry Fielding
--Thomas Gray

--Reign of George II
Term
1760-1790
Definition
THE ENLIGHTENMENT

--The GOTHIC NOVEL
--Samuel Johnson
--Mary Wollstonecraft
--Lawrence Sterne
--Horace Walpole
--Thomas Chatterton
--William Cowper

First 30 years of George III
American Revolution
Term
1790-1820
Definition
EARLY ROMANTIC

--Anne Radcliffe
--William Blake
--William Wordsworth
--Samuel Coleridge
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
--Lord Byron
--John Keats
--Charles Lamb
--Jane Austen

STURM UND DRANG in Germany
Second part of George III
Term
1820-1837
Definition
MIDDLE ROMANTIC PERIOD

BRITS:
--Thomas Carlyle
--Alfred Tennyson

AMERICAN
--Edgar Allan Poe
--Washington Irving
Term
1837-1869
Definition
BRIT LATE ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN PERIODS:
--Charles Dickens
--Robert Browning
--Thomas Macaulay
--Emily Bronte
--Charlotte Bronte

AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM:
--Walt Whitman
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
--Herman Melville
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Henry David Thoreau
Term
1869-1901
Definition
REALISM

Brits:
--George Meredith
--John Ruskin
--Charles Swinburne
--Thomas Hardy
--George Eliot
--Gerard M. Hopkins

American:
--Mark Twain
--Henry James
Term
1901-1939
Definition
MODERNISM

British:
--William Butler Yeats
--Joseph Conrad
--D.H. Lawrence
--W.H. Auden
--James Joyce
--Virgina Woolf

American:
--Ernest Hemingway
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
--Gertrude Stein
--T.S. Eliot
--Ezra Pound
--W.E.B. Du Bois
Term
Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot
Definition
Thinkers of the Enlightenment
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