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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 HomerOedipus the King by SophoclesMedea 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  | OldEnglish (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)TheDecameron 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 Renaissance558-1603 Elizabethan Age1603- 1625  Jacobean Age1625 - 1649 Caroline Age1649 - 1669 Commonwealth Period  |  Francois Rabelais, Frenchwriter (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 poet1599 The Globe Theatre built                                     Don Quixote (1605-1615) by Miguel de Cervantes, SpanishwriterAndrew 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 Period1660-1700 The Restoration1700-1745 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 poetRobinson 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 writer and philosopher (1712-78)Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) by American Jonathan Edwards TheCastle 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) by Phyllis Wheatley, African-American poet (1753-1784)Common Sense (1776) by Thomas Paine  |
1785-1830 | The RomanticPeriod--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 | The Victorian Period1848-1860 The Pre-Raphaelites1840-1860 Transcendentalism (America)1865-1900 Age of Realism (America)  | Edgar Allan Poe, American writerinfluenced 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)                            Henry James, American writer (1843-1916)Transcendentalist writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, Margaret FullerNarrative of the...