1. Old English Period / Anglo-Saxon Period (449 – 1066)
Important Writers: 1. Caedmon, 2. Cynewulf (Poets)
3. Bede, 4. King Alfred, 5. Aelfric, 6. Wulfstan (Prose Writers)
2. Middle English Period / Anglo – Norman Period (1066 – 1550):
I. Before Chaucer (1066 – 1350)
II. The Age of Chaucer (1350 – 1400)
III. The Age of Revival / Chaucer to Spenser / Early Renaissance (1400 – 1550)
I. Before Chaucer (1066 – 1350)
Important Writers: 1. Layamon/Lazamon, 2. Orm (Poets)
3. John Heywood (Dramatist)
II. The Age of Chaucer (1350 – 1400)
Important Writers: 1. Geoffrey Chaucer, 2. William Langland, 3. John Gower, 4. John Barbour (Poets)
5. John Mandeville, 6. John Wyclif, 7. Sir Thomas Malory (Prose Writers)
III. The Age of Revival / Chaucer to Spenser/Early Renaissance (1400 – 1550)
Important Writers: 1. John Lydgate, 2. Thomas Hoccleve, 3. James – I, 4. William Dunbar, 5. Gawin Douglas, 6. Robert Henryson (Poets)
7. William Caxton, 8. Sir Thomas More, 9. William Tyndale, 10. Miles Coverdale (Prose Writers)
11. Thomas Sackville, 12. Norton, 13. Nicholas Udall (Dramatists)
3. The Renaissance (1550 – 1660):
I. The Elizabethan Period (1550 – 1603)
II. The Jacobean Period (1603 – 1625)
III. The Caroline Age (1625 – 1649)
IV. The Commonwealth Period / Age of Milton / Puritan Age / Late Renaissance (1649 – 1660)
I. The Elizabethan Period (1550 – 1603)
Important Writers: 1. Sir Thomas Wyatt, 2. Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), 3. Edmund Spenser, 4. Sir Philip Sidney, 5. Michael Drayton, 6. Samuel Daniel, (Sonneteers) 7. John Donne (Metaphysical Poets)
8. John Lyly, 19. Robert Greene, 10. Thomas Nash, 11. Thomas Kyd, 12. Christopher Marlowe, (University Wits/Pre-Shakespearean Dramatists)
13. William Shakespeare, 14. Ben Jonson (Dramatists)
15. Francis Bacon, 16. Roger Ascham, 17. Robert Burton (Prose/Essayists)
II. The Jacobean Period (1603 – 1625)
Important Writers: 1. George Chapman, 2. Thomas Dekker, 3. Thomas Middleton, 4. Thomas Heywood, 5. John Webster, 6. Francis Beaumont, 7. John Fletcher (Jacobean / Post-Shakespearean Dramatists)
8. King James – I (Prose Writer)
III. The Caroline Age (1625 – 1649)
Important Writers: 1. George Herbert, 2. Henry Vaughan, 3. Richard Crashaw, 4. Abraham Cowley, 5. Andrew Marvell (Metaphysical Poets)
6. Robert Herrick, 7. Richard Lovelace, 8. John Suckling (Cavalier Poets)
9. Philip Massinger, 10. John Ford (Dramatists)
IV. The Commonwealth Period / Age of Milton / Puritan Age / Late Renaissance (1649 – 1660)
Important Writers: 1. John Milton, 2. William Chamberlayne , 3. John Cleveland (Poets)
4. Sir Thomas Brown, 5. Thomas Hobbes, 6. Jeremy Taylor (Prose Writers)
4. The Neoclassical Period / The Augustan Age (1660 – 1750):
I. The Restoration / Age of Dryden (1660 – 1700)
II. Age of Pope (1700 – 1745/1750)
I. The Restoration / Age of Dryden (1660 – 1700)
Important Writers: 1. John Dryden, 2. Samuel Butler (Poets)
3. John Bunyan, 4. Samuel Pepys (Prose Writers)
5. William Congreve, 6. William Wycherley, 7. George Etheredge, 8. Thomas Shadwell, 9. Thomas Otway (Dramatists)
II. Age of Pope (1700 – 1745/1750)
Important Writers: 1. Alexander Pope, 2. John Gay, 3. Edward Young (Poets)
4. Jonathan Swift, 5. Daniel Defoe (Novelists/Prose)
6. Joseph Addison, 7. Richard Steele (Essayists/Prose)
5. The Age of Transition / The Age of Sensibility (1740/1745 – 1790/1800)
Important Writers: 1. James Thomson, 2. William Collins, 3. Thomas Grey, 4. William Cowper, 5. William Blake, 6. Robert Burns (Poetry)
7. R.B. Sheridan, 8. Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatists)
9. Samuel Richardson, 10. Henry Fielding, 11. Tobias Smollett, 12. Horace Walpole, 13. Ann Radcliffe (Novelists)
14. Edward Gibbon, 15. David Hume (Prose/Historians)
16. Edmund Burke (Prose/Essayist)
6. The Romantic Period / The Return to Nature (1790 – 1830)
Important Writers: 1. William Wordsworth, 2. S.T. Coleridge, 3. Lord Byron, 4. P.B. Shelley, 5. John Keats (Poets)
6. Walter Scott, 7. Jane Austen (Novelists)
8. Charles Lamb, 9. Thomas De Quincey, 10. William Hazlitt (Essayists)
7. Victorian Period (1830 – 1890 /1901)
Important Writers: 1. Tennyson, 2. Robert Browning, 3. Matthew Arnold, 4. E.B. Browning, 5. D.G. Rossetti, 6. C.G. Rossetti (Poets)
7. Charles Dickens, 8. William Makepeace Thackeray, 9. Bronte Sisters: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, 10. George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell (Novelists)
11. Thomas Carlyle, 12. John Ruskin, 13. R.L. Stevenson, 14. Charles Darwin (Prose/Essayists)
8. The Modern Period (1890 – 1945):
I. The Edwardian Period / Late Victorian Period (1890 – 1914)
II. The Inter-War Years (1914 – 1945)
I. The Edwardian Period / Late Victorian Period (1890 – 1914)
Important writers: 1. Thomas Hardy, 2. Henry James, 3. Joseph Conrad, 4. H.G. Wells, 5. Samuel Butler, 6. Rudyard Kipling (Novelists)
7. G.B. Shaw, 8. J.M. Synge, 9. John Galsworthy, 10. Oscar Wilde (Dramatists)
11. W.B. Yeats, 12. Robert Bridges, 13. John Masefield, 14. Walter de la Mare (Poets)
II. The Inter-War Years (1914 – 1945)
Important Writers: 1. D.H. Lawrence, 2. James Joyce, 3. Virginia Woolf, 4. E.M. Forster (Novelists)
5. G.M. Hopkins, 6. T.S. Eliot, 7. W.H. Auden 8. Ezra Pound 9. Wilfred Owen, 10. Siegfried Sassoon (Poets)
11. Sean O’Casey, 12. J.B. Priestley, 13. Eugene O’Neill (Dramatists)
9. The Post-Modern Era (1945 – Now)
Important Writers: 1. Graham Greene, 2. John Masters, 3. William Cooper, 4. Kingsley Amis, 5. George Orwell (Novelists)
6. Dylan Thomas, 7. Sylvia Plath (Poets)
8. Samuel Beckett, 9. John Osborne, 10. Harold Pinter (Dramatists)
11. Winston Churchill (Prose/Essayist)
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