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| 13568543435 | Classical Period | (1200 BCE - 455 CE) Includes the Homeric/Heroic Period, Classical Greek Period, Classical Roman Period, and Patristic Period | 0 | |
| 13568549089 | Homeric/Heroic Period | (1200 - 800 BCE) Greek legends are passed orally, including Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey. This is a chaotic period of warrior-princes, wandering sea-traders, and fierce pirates. | 1 | |
| 13568556538 | Classical Greek Period | (800 - 200 BCE) Greek writers, playwrights, and philosophers, such as Gorgias, Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides, and Sophocles. The 5th century (499 - 400 BCE) in particular is renowned as The Golden Age of Greece. This is the sophisticated period of the polis, or individual City-State, and early democracy. Some of the world's art, poetry, drama, architecture, and philosophy originate in Athens. | 2 | |
| 13568566441 | Classical Roman Period | (200 BCE - 455 CE) Greece's culture gives way to Roman power when Rome conquers Greece in 146 CE> The Roman Republic was traditionally founded in 509 BCE, but it is limited in size until later. Playwrights of this time include Plautus and Terence. After nearly 500 years as a Republic, Rome slides int dictatorship under Julius Caesar and finally into a monarchial empire under Caesar Augustus in 27 CE. This later period is known as the Roman Imperial period. Roman writers include Ovid, Horace, and Virgil. Roman philosophers include Marcus Aurelius and Lucretius. Roman rhetoricians include Cicero and Quintilian. | 3 | |
| 13568592753 | Patristic Period | (c. 70 CE - 455 CE) Early Christian writings appear, such as Saint Augustine, Tertullian, Saint Cyprian, Saint Ambrose, and Saint Jerome. This is the period in which Saint Jerome 1st compiles the Bible, when Christianity spreads across Europe, and the Roman Empire suffers its dying convulsions. In this period, barbarians attack Rome in 410 CE, and the city finally falls to them completely in 455 CE. | 4 | |
| 13568610338 | Medieval Period | (455 CE - 1485 CE) Includes the Old English and Middle English Periods | 5 | |
| 13568613291 | Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period | (428 - 1066) Includes the Dark Ages and the Carolingian Renaissance | 6 | |
| 13568615966 | Dark Ages | (455 CE - 799 CE) Occurs when Rome falls and barbarian tribes move into Europe. Franks, Ostrogoths, Lombards, and Goths settle in the ruins of Europe and the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes migrate to Britain, displacing native Celts into Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Early Old English poems, such as Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer, originate sometime late in the Anglo-Saxon period. | 7 | |
| 13568620838 | Carolingian Renaissance | (800 - 850 CE) In central Europe, texts include early medieval grammars, encyclopedias, etc. In northern Europe, this time period marks the setting of Viking sagas. | 8 | |
| 13568624548 | Middle English Period | (c. 1066 - 1450 CE) Includes the 12th Century Renaissance and the Late/"High" Medieval Period | 9 | |
| 13568626699 | 12th Century Renaissance | (c. 1100 - 1200 CE) In 1066, Norman French armies invade and conquer England under William I. French chivalric romances--such as works by Chretien de Troyes--and French fables--such as the works of Marie de France and Jeun de Meun--spread in popularity. Abelard and other humanists produce great scholastic and theological works. | 10 | |
| 13568632626 | Late/"High" Medieval Period | (c. 1200 - 1485 CE) This often tumultuous period is marked by the Middle English writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "Gawain" or "Pearl" Poet, the Wakefield Master, and William Langland. Other writers include Italian and French authors, like Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante, and Christine de Pisan. | 11 | |
| 13572715344 | The Renaissance and Reformation | (c. 1485 - 160 CE) Includes the Early Tudor Period, Elizabethan Period, Jacobean Period, Caroline Age, and the Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum | 12 | |
| 13572733884 | Early Tudor Period | (1485 - 1558) The War of the Roses ends in England with Henry Tudor (Henry VII) claiming the throne. Martin Luther's split with Rome marks the emergence of Protestantism, followed by Henry VIII's Anglican schism, which creates the 1st Protestant church in England. Edmund Spenser is a sample poet. | 13 | |
| 13572750391 | Elizabethan Period | (1558 - 1603) Queen Elizabeth saves England from both Spanish invasion and internal squabbles at home. The early works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kydd, and Sidney mark Elizabeth's reign. | 14 | |
| 13572760638 | Jacobean Period | (1603 - 1625) Shakespeare's later work, Aemilia Lanyer, Ben Jonson, and John Donne. | 15 | |
| 13572767205 | Caroline Age | (1625 - 1649) John Milton, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, the "Sons of Ben" and others write during the reign of Charles I and his Cavaliers. | 16 | |
| 13572777488 | Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum | (1649 - 1660) Under Cromwell's Puritan dictatorship, John Milton continues to write, but we also find writers like Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Browne. | 17 | |
| 13572797100 | Enlightenment/Neoclassical Period | (c. 1660 - 1790) "___________" refers to the increased influence of Classical literature upon these centuries. The _________ Period is also called the "____________" due to the increased reverence for logic and disdain for superstition. The period is marked by the rise of Deism, intellectual backlash against earlier Puritanism, and America's revolution against England. | 18 | |
| 13572844963 | Restoration Period | (c. 1660 - 1700) This period marks the British king's restoration to the throne after a long period of Puritan domination in England. Its symptoms include the dominance of French and Classical influences on poetry and drama. Sample writers include John Dryden, John Lock, Sir William Temple, Samuel Pepys, and Aphra Behn in England. Abroad, representative authors include Jean Racine and Moliere. | 19 | |
| 13572873334 | Augustan Age | (c. 1700 - 1750) This period is marked by the imitation of Virgil and Horace's literature in English letters. The principal English writers include Addison, Steele, Swift, and Alexander Pope. Abroad, Voltaire is the dominant French writer. | 20 | |
| 13572883627 | Age of Johnson | (c. 1750 - 1790) This period marks the transition toward the upcoming Romanticism though the period is still largely Neoclassical. Major writers include Dr. Samuel Johnson, Boswell, and Edward Gibbon who represent the Neoclassical tendencies, while writers like Robert Burns, Thomas Gray, Cowper, and Crabbe show movement away from the Neoclassical ideal. In America, this period is called the Colonial Period. It includes colonial and revolutionary writers like Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine. | 21 | |
| 13572916326 | Romantic Period | (c. 1790 - 1830) Romantic poets write about nature, imagination, and individuality in England. Some Romantics include Coleridge, Blake, Keats, and Shelley in Britain and Johann von Goethe in Germany. Jane Austen also writes at this time, though she is typically not categorized with the male Romantic poets. In America, this period is mirrored in the Transcendental Period from about 1830-1850. Transcendentalists include Emerson and Thoreau. Gothic writings (c. 1790 - 1890) overlap with the Romantic and Victorian periods. Writers of Gothic novels (the precursor to horror novels) include Radcliffe, Monk Lewis, and Victorians like Bram Stoker in Britain. In America, Gothic writers include Poe and Hawthorne. | 22 | |
| 13572973306 | Victorian Period and the 19th Century | (c. 1832 - 1901) Writing during the period of Queen Victoria's reign includes sentimental novels. British writers include Elizabeth Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, and the Bronte sisters. Pre-Raphaelites, like the Rossettis and William Morris, idealize and long for the morality of the medieval world. The end of the Victorian Period is marked by intellectual movements of Aestheticism and "the Decadence" in the writings of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. In America, Naturalist writers like Stephen Crane flourish, as do early free verse poets like Walt Whitman and common measure poets like Emily Dickinson. | 23 | |
| 13573006337 | Modern Period | (c. 1914 - 1945?) In Britain, writers include W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, and Wilfred Owen. In America, the _________ period includes Robert Frost and Flannery O'Connor as well as the famous writers of The Lost Generation (also called the writers of the Jazz Age, 1914-1929) such as Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. "The Harlem Renaissance" marks the rise of black writers such as Baldwin and Ellison. Realism is the dominant fashion, but the disillusionment with the World Wars lead to new experimentation. | 24 | |
| 13573046657 | Postmodern Period | (c. 1945? onward) T. S. Eliot, Morrison, Shaw, Beckett, Stoppard, Fowles, Calvino, Ginsberg, Pynchon, and other modern writers, poets, and playwrights experiment with meta-fiction and fragmented poetry. Multiculturalism leads to increasing canonization of non-Caucasian writers such as Langston Hughes, Sandra Cisneros, and Zora Neal Hurston. Magic Realists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Gunter Grass, and Salman Rushdie flourish with surrealistic writings embroidered in the conventions of realism. | 25 |
