Time Periods of Poets

Middle Ages (1066-1485)

Chaucer

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Renaissance (1485-1660)

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Spenser

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Neoclassical Period (1660-1798)

John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Bunyan, John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester),John Dryden, Robert Burns

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Romantic Period (1798-1832)

Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, William Blake, John Keats, Lord Byron

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Victorian Period (1832-1900)

Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Rudyard Kipling,Robert Browning,Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Dowson

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Modern Period (1900-subject to debate)

T.S Eliot, James Joyce, D.H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Dylan Thomas

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Post-Modern Period (1945ish-present day)

Margaret Atwood, George Orwell, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Jeanette Winterson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Carol Anne Duffy

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Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Spenser

Renaissance (1485-1660)

John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Bunyan, John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester),John Dryden, Robert Burns

Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, William Blake, John Keats, Lord Byron

Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Rudyard Kipling,Robert Browning,Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Dowson

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