important periods of english literature for BCS ,Bank and others competitive Exam

important periods of english literature for BCS ,Bank and others competitive Exam

1. The old english period : 450-1066

Some Famous Poet name: caedman, cynewulf, saint venerable bede, king alfred the great.

2. The middle english period: 1066-1500

     i)  The Anglo Norman Period:  1066-1340
     ii) The Age of Chaucer: 1340-1400
     iii) The Dark period: 1400-1500

Some Famous Poet name: Geoffrey chaucer, william langland, John Wycliff, Sir Thomas Melory

3.  The Renaissance Period: 1500-1600

   i) Preparation For renaissance: 1500-1558
  ii) The Elizabethan Period: 1558-1603
 iii) The jacobean period: 1603-1625
 iv) The caroline Period: 1625-1649
  v) The commonwealth period: 1649-1660

Some Famous Poet name: Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Thomas kyd.

4.  The Neo classical Period: 1660-1798

   i) The Restoration Period: 1660-1700
  ii) The Augustan Period: 1700-1745
 iii) The Age of Sensivility: 1745-1798

Some Famous Poet name: John milton, William Congreve, Samuel Butler.

5. The Romantic Period: 1798-1832

Some Famous Poet name: William Wordsworth, S T. Coleridge, P.B. Shelley, Charles Lamb, Lord Byron, Jane Austin.

6. The Victorian period: 1832-1901

Some Famous Poet name: Charles Dickens, R L Stevenson, George Eliot, Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain

7. The Modern period: 1901-1939

Some Famous Poet name:A.P.J Abdul Kalam, Earnest Hamingway, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, James Joyce, Lord Acton

8. The post modern Period: 1939-present

Some Famous Poet name: T.S Eliot, William Somerset Maugham, William Faulkner, Ted Hughes, Thomas USK, Stephen Hawking