Important Writers in Various Periods

Middle English Period (1066-1500)

⇨ Geofrey Chaucher

⇨ Sir Thomas Moore

⇨ John Wycliff

⇨ Thomas Sackville

⇨ Thomas Norton

The Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)

⇨ Edmund Spenser

⇨ Sir Philip Sydney

⇨ Thomas Kyd

⇨ Francis Bacon

⇨ Chistopher Marlowe

⇨ William Shakespeare

Jacobean Period (1603-1625)

⇨ John Donne

⇨ Ben Jenson

Caroline Period (1625-1649)

⇨ Robert Herrick

⇨ George Robert

Commonwealth Period (1649-1660)

⇨ John Milton

⇨ Andrew Marvel

Augustan Period (1700-1745)

⇨ Daniel Defoe

⇨ Jonathan Swift

⇨ Alexander Pope

Age of Sensibility (1745-1798)

⇨ Benjamin Franklin

⇨ Henry Feilding

⇨ Dr. Samuel Johnson

⇨ Thomas Gray

⇨ William Blake

Romantic Period (1798-1832)

⇨ William Wordsworth

⇨ S. T. Coleridge

⇨ Charles Lamb

⇨ Jane Austen

⇨ Lord Byron

⇨ P. B. Shelley

⇨ John Keats

Victorian Period (1832-1901)

⇨ Lord Alfred Tennyson

⇨ Robert Browning

⇨ Charles Dickens

⇨ George Eliot

⇨ Thomas Hardy

Edwardian Period (1901-1910)

⇨ George Bernard Shaw

⇨ O' Henry

⇨ W. B. Yeats

Georgian Period (1910-1939)

⇨ William Somerset Maugham

⇨ D.H. Lawrence

⇨ T. S. Eliot

⇨ Earnest Hemingway

⇨ George Orwell

Post Modern Period (1939-Present)

⇨ Tony Morrison

⇨ Dan Brown

⇨ J. K. Rowling