History Of English Literature summary /History Of English Language Summary /Periodical Devision In English Literature And Famous Writers

History Of English Literature Summary /History Of English Language Summary /Periodical Division and Famous Writers In English Literature 

Normally we can find 9 divisions in English Literature. For knowing those read bottom information.

In English Literature Nine Divisions Are:

1.Old English Period /Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)

2.Middle English Period /Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1550)

3.The Renaissance (1550-1660)

4.The Neoclassical Period /The Augustan Age (1660-1750)

5.The Age Of Transition /The Age Of Sensibility (1740/1745-1790/1800)

6.The Romantic Period /The Return To Nature (1790-1830)

7.Victorian Period (1830-1890/1901)

8.The Modern Period (1890-1945)

9.The Post Modern Period (1945-Now)

Nine Periods Subdivision And Famous Writers Are Given Below:

1.Old English Period / Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)

In this period important writers are:

• Caedmon 

• Cynewulf

• Bede

• King Alfred

• Aelfric

• Wulfstan

2.Middle English Period / Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1550)

This period has 3 subdivisions.These are:

1.Before chaucer (1066-1350)

2.The age of Chaucer (1350-1400)

3.The age of Revival /Chaucer to spenser /Early Renaissance (1400-1550)

Before Chaucer Period important writers are:

• Layamon / Lazamon

• Orm

• John Heywood

The age of Chaucer period important writers are:

• Geofrey Chaucer

• William Langland

• John Gower

• John Barbour

• John Mandeville

• John Wyclif

• Sir Thomas Malory

The age of revival /Chaucer to spenser /Early Renaissance period important writers are:

• John Lydgate

• Thomas Hoccleve

• James-I

• William Dunber

• Gawin Douglas

• Robert Henryson

• William Caxton

• Sir Thomas More

• William Tyndale

• Miles Coverdale

• Thomas Sackville

• Norton

• Nicholas Udall

3.The Renaissance Period (1550-1660)

This period has 4 subdivisions. These are:

1.The Elizabethan Period (1550-1603)

2.The Jacobean Period (1603-1625)

3.The Caroline age (1625-1649)

4.The Commonwealth Period /Age of Milton / Puritan Age / Late Renaissance (1649-1660)

The Elizabethan period important writers are:

• Sir Thomas Wyatt

• Henry Howard

• Edmund Spenser 

• Sir Philip Sidney

• Michael Drayton

• Samuel Daniel

• John Donne

• John Lyly

• Robert Greene

• Thomas Nash 

• Thomas Kyd

• Christopher Marlowe

• William Shakespeare 

• Ben Jonson

• Francis Bacon

• Roger Ascham

• Robert Burton

The Jacobean period important writers are:

• George Chapman

• Thomas Dekker

• Thomas Middleton

• Thomas Heywood

• John webster

• Francis Beaumont

• John Fletcher

• King James-1

The Caroline Age important writers are:

• George Herbert

• Henry Vaughan

• Richard Crashaw

• Abraham Cowley

• Andrew Marvell

• Robert Herrick

• Richard lovelace

• John Suckling

• Philip Massinger

• John Ford

The commonwealth period /Age of Milton / Puritan age /Late Renaissance period important writers are:

• John Milton

• William Chamberlayne

• John Cleveland

• Sir Thomas Brown

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jeremy Taylor

  

4.The Neoclassical Period /The Augustan Age (1660-1750)

This period has 2 kinds.These are:

1.The Restoration / Age of Dryden (1660-1700)

2.Age of Pope ( 1700-1745/1750)

The Restoration / Age of Dryden period important writers are:

• John Dryden

• Samuel Butler

• John Bunyan

• Samuel Pepys

• William Congreve

• William Wycherley

• George Etheredge

• Thomas Shadwell

• Thomas Otway

Age of pope period important writers are:

• Alexander Pope

• John Gay

• Edward Young

• Jonathan Swift

• Daniel Defoe

• Joseph Addison

• Richard Steele

5.The Age Of Transition /The Age Of Sensibility (1740/1745-1790/1800)

In this period important writers are:

• James Thomson

• William Collins

• Thomas Grey

• William Cowper

• William Blake 

• Robert Burns

• R.B. Sheridan

• Oliver Goldsmith

• Samuel Richardson

• Henry Fielding

• Tobias Smollett

• Horace Walpole

• Ann Radcliffe 

• Edward Gribbon

• David Hume

• Edmund Burke

6.The Romantic Period / The Return To Nature (1790-1830)

In this period important writers are:

• William Wordsworth 

• S.T Coleridge

• Lord Byron 

• P.B. Shelley

• John Keats 

• Walter Scott

• Jane Austen

• Charles Lamb

• Thomas De Quincey

• William Hazlitt

7.Victorian Period (1830-1890/1901)

In this period important writers are:

• Tennyson

• Robert Browning

• Matthew Arnold

• E.B Browning

• D.G. Rossetti

• C.G. Rossetti

• Charles Dickens

• William Makepeace Thackeray

• Bronte Sister: Charlotte, Emily, Anne

• George Eliot

• Elizabeth Gaskell

• Thomas Carlyle

• John Ruskin

• R.L.Stevenson

• Charles Darwin

8.The Modern Period (1890-1945)

This period has 2 kinds.These are:

1.The Edwardian Period / Late Victorian period (1890-1914)

2.The Inter-war Years (1914-1945)

The Edwardian Period / Late victorian period important writers are:

• Thomas Hardy 

• Henry James

• Joseph Conrad

• H.G. Wells

• Samuel Butler

• Rudyard Kipling

• G.B.Shaw

• J.M.Synge

• John Galsworyhy

• Oscar Wilde

• W.B. Yeats

• Robert Bridges

• John Mosefield

• Walter De La Mare

The Inter-War Years period important writers are:

• D.H. Lawrence

• James Joyce

• Virginia Woolf

• E.M.Forster

• G.M. Hopkins

• T.S.Eliot

• W.H.Auden

• Ezra Pound

• Wilfred Owen

• Siegfried Sassoon

• Sean O' Casey

• J.B.Priestley

• Eugene O' Neill

9.The PostModern Era (1945-Now)

In this period important writers are:

• Graham Greene

• John Masters

• William Cooper

• Kingsley Amis

• George Orwell

• Dylan Thomas 

• Sylvia Plath

• Samuel Beckett

• John Osborne

• Harold Pinter

• Winston Churchill