Periodical History & Writers’ Works

Periodical History & Writers’ Works

1. The Old English Period/ The Anglo-Saxon Period: - 450 to 1066

Beowulf, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Wife’s Complaint, The lover’s Message, Deor’s Lament, The Ruin are among the remarkable poems of this age. Wrote by an unknown author in this period

2. The Middle English period: - 1066 to 1500

John Wyclif (1324-1384) (the father of English prose):- Translation of The Bible

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) (the father of English poetry):- Prologue to Canterbury Tales

William Langland (1332- ):- Piers Plowman

Thomas Malory (1405- 1471):- Morte d’ Arthur

3. The Renaissance (means rebirth) Period: - 1500 to 1660

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) (he is called the poet of the poets):- The Faerie Queene

Norton and Sackville (1536-1608), (the father of tragedy, first tragedy “Gorboduc”)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586):- An Apologie for Poetries

Milton (1608-1674):- Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes

Shakespeare (1564-1616) (the father of Drama):- Hamlet,

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) (the father of Essays):- Essays

Ben Jonson (1573-1637) (he is called a neo-classicist):- Every Man in His Humour

4. The Neoclassical Period: - 1660 to 1785

Alexander Pope (1688-1744):- The Rape of the Lock

William Congreve (1670-1729):- The Way of the World

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745):- Gulliver’s Travels

Henry Fielding (1707-1754):- Tom Jones

William Black (1757-1827):- Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience

5. Dark age (this age no remarkable poet): - 1785 to 1798

6. The Romantic Period: - 1798 to 1832

William Wordsworth (1770-1850):- Lyrical Ballads

S.T Coleridge (1772-1834):- Biographia Literaria, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

P.V Shelley (1792-1822):- Adonais

Keats (1795-1821): - Ode and other poems

Lord Byron (1788-1824): - Don Juan

7. The Victorian Period: - 1832 to 1901

Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): - The Lotos Eaters

Robert Browning (1812-1889), (dramatic monolog): - Men and Women

Mathew Arnold (1822-1888): - Essays in Criticism

Charles Dickens (1812-1870): - David Coperfield, A Tale of Two Cities

Karl Marx (1818-1883): - Das Capital

8. The Modern Period: - 1901 to 1939 & The postmodern Period: - 1939 to still

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928):- In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ (poetry)

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): - Man and Superman

W.B Yeats (1865-1939): - The Cat and the Moon

T.S Eliot (1888-1965): - The Waste Land

Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965): - Cake and Ale