Timeline of Major Literary Periods and Authors

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Anglo-Saxon Period

449-1066

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Anonymous

c. 8th-11th century; Major Work: Beowulf (c. 700-1000 AD)

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Medieval Period

1066-1485

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Geoffrey Chaucer

c. 1343-1400; Major Work: The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)

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Sir Thomas Malory

c. 1415-1471; Major Work: Le Morte d'Arthur (completed 1470, published 1485)

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Renaissance Period

1485-1625

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Edmund Spenser

c. 1552-1599; Major Works: The Faerie Queene (1590-1596), Amoretti (1595)

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Christopher Marlowe

1564-1593; Major Works: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599), Doctor Faustus (1592)

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William Shakespeare

1564-1616; Major Works: Hamlet (1600-1601), Sonnet 18 (1609), Macbeth (1606), Romeo and Juliet (1597)

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John Donne

1572-1631; Major Works: Holy Sonnets (1633), Holy Sonnet 10 (1633)

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Puritan Age / American Colonial Period

1625-1776

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John Milton

1608-1674; Major Works: Paradise Lost (1667), On His Blindness (1655)

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Anne Bradstreet

1612-1672; Major Work: The Author to Her Book (1678), The Tenth Muse (1650)

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Jonathan Edwards

1703-1758; Major Work: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)

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Restoration & 18th Century / American Neoclassical Period

1660-1798

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John Dryden

1631-1700; Major Work: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1687)

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Alexander Pope

1688-1744; Major Work: Ode on Solitude (1700), The Rape of the Lock (1712)

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Benjamin Franklin

1706-1790; Major Work: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791)

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Philis Wheatley

1753-1784; Major Work: On Being Brought from Africa to America (1773)

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Romantic Period

1798-1832

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William Wordsworth

1770-1850; Major Works: Daffodils (1807), My Heart Leaps Up (1802), The Prelude (1850)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772-1834; Major Work: Kubla Khan (1816), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792-1822; Major Work: Ode to the West Wind (1820), Prometheus Unbound (1820)

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John Keats

1795-1821; Major Work: Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819), Ode to a Nightingale (1819)

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