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Literature Timeline
Date Literary Period Authors/Works
Q``800-400 BC This period was dominated by Homer and other Greek tragedians
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Medea by Euripedes

250 BC - AD 150 Writers of the Roman Empire are most noted in this time period
Famous authors from this period: Virgil, Horace, and Ovid


450-1066
Old English(Anglo-Saxon) Period

Beowulf


The rise of haiku poetry

Tale of Genji by Japanese writer Murasaki Shibiku (written around the year 1000)


1066-1500 Middle English Period

Persian poet Rumi (1207-73)
Petrarch, Italian writer, inventor of the sonnet (1304 -74)

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Italian writer(1307-1321)
The Decameron by Italian writer Boccacio (1313-75)

The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400) by Geoffrey Chaucer, British writer (1343-1400)


1450- Invention of the printing press

1500-1660 The Renaissance
558-1603 Elizabethan Age
1603- 1625 Jacobean Age
1625 - 1649 Caroline Age
1649 - 1669 CommonwealthPeriod


Francois Rabelais, French writer (1490-1553)
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, British writer (1564-93)
William Shakespeare, British poet and playwright (1564-1616)

Ben Johnson, British author (1572-1637)
John Donne, British poet (1572-1631)
The Faerie Queen (1589) by Edmund Spenser, British poet
1599 The Globe Theatre builtDon Quixote (1605-1615) by Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer
Andrew Marvel, British poet (1621-78)
Henry Vaughan, British poet (1621-95)

Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton, British author (1608-74)


1660-1785
The Neoclassical Period
1660-1700 The Restoration
1700-1745 The Augustan Age (Age of Pope)
1650-1750 Puritan/Colonial Literature (America)Tartuffe (1664) by French writer Moliere (1622-73)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet
Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722) by Daniel Defoe, English writer (1660-1731)

Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, English writer (1667-1745)

Candide (1759) by French writer Voltaire (1694-1778)
Samuel Johnson, English writer (1709-84)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writerand philosopher (1712-78)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) by American Jonathan Edwards

The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole (first gothic novel)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer

1750-1800 The Age of Reason (America)

Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and Patrick Henry, American Revolution authors

Poems on Various Subjects (1773) byPhyllis Wheatley, African-American poet (1753-1784)

Common Sense (1776) by Thomas Paine

1785-1830 The Romantic Period
--The Gothic Period (approx. 1785-1820, though it lasted longer in America)


William Blake, English poet (1757-1827)



William Wordsworth, English poet (1770-1850)
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (1772-1834)Jane Austen, English author (1775-1817)

Lord Byron, English poet (1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (1792-1822)
John Keats, English poet (1795-1821)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet, (1809-92)

Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley, British writer (1797-1851)

The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (1789-1851)

1832-1901 TheVictorian Period
1848-1860 The Pre-Raphaelites
1840-1860 Transcendentalism (America)
1865-1900 Age of Realism (America)

Edgar Allan Poe, American writer influenced by Gothic movement (1809-49)
Robert Browning, English poet (1812-89)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (1806-61)

Charles Dickens, British author (1812-1870)

Emily Dickinson, American writer (1830-1886)...