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Literary History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Beowulf | Old English, other |
| Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales | Middle English, English |
| English Bible published | The Renaissance, English |
| Shakespeare's Hamelet | The Renaissance, English |
| King James translation of the Bible | The Renaissance, English |
| John Milton, Paradise Lost | Neoclassical Period, English |
| Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe | Neoclassical Period, English |
| Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels | Neoclassical Period, other |
| Samuel Richardson, Pamela | Neoclassical Period, English |
| Henry Fielding, Tom Jones | Neoclassical Period, English |
| Gray "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" | Neoclassical Period, English |
| Ben Johnson, Dictionary | Neoclassical Period, English |
| Lawrence Stern , Tristram Shandy | Neoclassical Period, English |
| Ben Franklin, Autobiography | Neoclassical Period, American |
| Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence | Neoclassical Period, American |
| Noah Webster | Neoclassical Period, American |
| William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Romantic Period, English |
| Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility | Romantic Period, other |
| Mary Shelley, Frankenstein | Romantic Period, other |
| Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II | Romantic Period, English |
| Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe | Romantic Period, other |
| Edgar Allan Poe, poems | Romantic Period, American |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature | Early Victorian Age, American |
| Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers | Early Victorian Age, English |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales | Early Victorian Age, American |
| Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, poems | Early Victorian Age, English |
| Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven | Early Victorian Age, American |
| Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre | Early Victorian Age, English |
| Thackeray, Vanity Fair | Early Victorian Age, English |
| Charles Dickens, David Copperfield | Early Victorian Age, English |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese | Early Victorian Age, English |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter | Early Victorian Age, American |
| Herman Melville, Moby Dick | Early Victorian Age, American |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin | Early Victorian Age, American |
| Henry David Thoreau, Walden | Early Victorian Age, American |
| Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass | Early Victorian Age, American |
| Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species | Early Victorian Age, English |
| George Elliot, Mill on the Floss | Early Victorian Age, English |
| Karl Marx, Das Kapital | Realistic Period, other |
| Louisa May Alcott, Little Women | Realistic Period, American |
| George Elliot, Middlemarch | Realistic Period, English |
| Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd | Realistic Period, English |
| Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer | Realistic Period, American |
| Henry James, Daisy Miller | Realistic Period, American |
| Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island | Realistic Period, English |
| Mark Twain, Hucklebery Finn | Realistic Period, American |
| Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Realistic Period, English |
| George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession | Realistic Period, English |
| Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage | Realistic Period, other |
| Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie | Naturalistic Period, American |
| Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, Call of the Wild | Edwardian Period,English; American |
| Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth | Edwardian Period, American |
| John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World | Edwardian Period, other |
| D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather | Edwardian Period, English; American |
| T.S. Elliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | First World War, American |
| Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow | First World War, English |
| James Joyce, Ulysses; T.S. Elliot, The Waste Land | First World War, other, American |
| E.M. Forster, A Passage to India | First World War, English |
| Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway | First World War, English |
| T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom; Earnest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises | First World War, English; American |
| William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury | First World War, American |
| W.B. Yeats, Collected Poems | First World War, other |
| John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony | First World War, American |
| James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake | Second World War, other |
| Richard Wright, Native Son | Second World War, American |
| George Orwell, Animal Farm | Second World War, English |
| Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesmen | Second World War, American |
| J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye | Second World War, American |
| Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot | Second World War, other |
| Vladmir Nabokov, Lolita | Second World War, other |
| Jack Kerouac | Second World War, American |
| Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart | Second World War, other |
| Iris Murdock, A Severed Head | Second World War, English |
| Theodore Roethke, The Far Field | Second World War, American |
| Sylvia Plath, Ariel | Postmodernist Period, American |
| Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Postmodernist Period, American |
| Alice Walker, The Color Purple | Postmodernist Period, American |
| Raymond Carver, Cathedral | Postmodernist Period, American |
| Toni Morrison, Beloved | Postmodernist Period, American |
| Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club; Thoman Pynchon, Vineland | Postmodernist Period, American |
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