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LITERARY

History and authors

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LITERARY HISTORY AND AUTHORS

S.NO NAME OF AGE TIME AUTHORS


PERIOD
1 THE AGE OF CHAUCER 1340-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, John Wycliffe, John Gower, John Lydgate
2 THE AGE OF TOTTEL’S MISCELLENY 1400-1557 Henry Howard, Thomas Wyatt, William Caxton (Printing Press), Thomas
Malory (Le Morte d'Arthur)
Poets- William Shakespeare, Sir Philp Sydney and Edmund Spenser
Dramatists- William Shakespeare
Seven University Wits- Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Thoams Nash,
3 THE AGE OF ELIZABETH 1558-1603 Thomas Lodge, George Peele, Robert Greene, John Lily
Ben Jonson (Comedy of Humours)
Prose- Francis Bacon, Walter Raliegh

4 Metaphysical Poets
THE JACOBEAN AGE 1603-1625 John Donne, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marwell, Richard Crashew, Abraham
Cowley, George Herbert
5 The CAROLINE AGE 1625-1649 John Milton (The cavalier poets Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, and John
Suckling)
6 THE COMMONWEALTH PHASE 1649-1660
POETS
John Dryden, John Bunyan (Pilgrim of the Progress)
PROSE
7 John Locke- (Essay on the Human Understanding)
John Evelyn, Samuel Pepys
THE AGE OF DRYDEN 1660-1700 COMEDY OF MANNERS
William Wycherley, William Congreve
8 Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift
The Age of Pope 1700-1745 Richard Stele, Joesph Addison (Periodical Essayist)
Pre- Romantic Poets
William Collins, William Cowper, Thoams Gray, James Thomson
Novel
9 The Age of Jonson/Pre-Romantic age 1745-1798 Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Lawrence Sterne, and Tobias Smollett
LITERARY HISTORY AND AUTHORS

Poets
William Wordsworth
S. T Coleridge
G.G Byron
P.B. Shelley
10 The Romantic Age 1798-1832/1837 John Keats
Essays
Charles Lamb
William Hazlitt
Novels
Charlotte, Emily and and Anne

Victorian poets
Alfred Tennyson
Matthew Arnold
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrel Browning
11 Victorian Age 1837-1901 G. M. Hopkins
Victorian Novelists
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
William Makepeace Thackeray
Oscar Wild
MODERN POETS
T. S Eliot, WB Yeats, W.H Auden
MODERN DRAMATISTS
12 Modern Age 1901-1945 G B Shaw, O’Neill, Robert Bridges
NOVELISTS
Virgnia Woolf, Joesph Cornard

Paul-Michel Foucault
Post Modern Age John Simmons Barth
13 1945- Harold Pinter
Samuel Backet
James Joyce

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