British Literature
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doreenoshinskie on July 6, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Old English | 450-1066 AD Beowulf |
| Middle English | 1066 - 1550 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, More's Utopia, Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, and the morality play Everyman. |
| Elizabethan | 1550 - 1625 Shakespeare's macbeth and Hamlet, Spenser's The Faerie Queene |
| Puritan | 1625 - 1660 Walton's The Compleate Angler, Milton's Lycidas, Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. |
| Neoclassical | 1660 - 1780 Dryden's The Conquest of Granada and Pepys' Memoirs of the Royal Navy |
| Romantic | 1780 - 1840 Byron's Don Juan; Austen's Pride and prejudice & Northanger Abbey. |
| Victorian | 1840 - 1900. Charles Dicken's, Great Expectations, Tennyson's Poems, Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. |
| Modernism | 1900-1945 Yeat's In the Seven Woods, Remarques' All Quiet on the Western Front, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. |
| Postmodernism | 1945- present. Nietzsche's The Antichrist, Orwell's 1984, Eliot's The Waste Land |
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