Ap lit time eras

Flashcards covering major literary periods and authors in English and American literature.

Anglo-Saxon Period

The period from 449-1066 AD, featuring works like Beowulf and Bede's diary.

Middle Ages

The period from 1066-1485 AD, known for Chaucer's poetry and adventure stories.

Renaissance

The period from 1485-1660 AD, including Elizabethan drama, metaphysical poetry, and stories by Bunyan.

Restoration

The period from 1660-1798, featuring comedy of manners, Swift's essays, and Gothic novels.

Romantic Age

The period from 1798-1832, notable for poetry by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

Victorian Period

The period from 1832-1901, including poetry by Tennyson, Browning, and fiction by Dickens and the Brontë sisters.

Twentieth Century

The period from 1901-1999, featuring WW I poetry, modernists like Joyce and Woolf.

Twenty-first Century

The period from 2000-today.

Native American Literature (Beginnings-1750)

Features Indian poetry and short fiction.

Narratives of the Explorers (1492-1750)

Includes journals such as Columbus's.

Puritan Literature (1620-1750)

Features Bradstreet and Taylor's poetry, narratives by Smith and Bradford, and sermons by Edwards.

Colonial Literature (1750-1800)

Includes speeches by Franklin, Jefferson, Paine, Henry, and letters by Abigail Adams.

American Romantic Age (1800-1870)

Features short stories by Irving, poetry and speeches by Emerson and Thoreau, works by Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne.

American Reconstruction (1870-1914)

Includes poetry and fiction by Crane, Foster, Bierce, Twain, London, Robinson, Dickinson, and Cather.

American Modern Age (1914-1946)

Includes WW I poetry and prose by Eliot, Pound, Auden, Moore, Cummings, Frost, Faulkner, Hemingway, Thurber, and Hughes.

American Contemporary Age (1946-Present)

Includes works by Roethke, Walker, Plath, and Morrison.