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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Chaucer | Middle English, |
| Shakespere | The Renaissance, England |
| Cervantes | The Renaissance, Spain |
| King James Translation of the Bible | The Renaissance |
| English Bible | The Renaissance, England |
| John Milton | Neoclassical, England |
| Daniel Defoe | Neoclassical, England |
| Jonathan Swift | Neoclassical, England |
| Samuel Richardson | Neoclassical, England |
| Gray | Neoclassical, England |
| Ben Johnson | Neoclassical, Enland |
| Lawrence Stern | Neoclassical, England |
| Ben Franklin | Neoclassical, America |
| Noah Webster | Neoclassical, America |
| Ralph Emerson | Early Victorian, America |
| Charles Dickens | Early Victorian, England |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Early Victorian, America |
| Robert Browning, Lord Tennyson | Early Victorian, England |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Early Victorian, America |
| Emily Bronte & Charlotte Bronte (sisters) | Early Victorian, England |
| Thackeray | Early Victorian, Britian |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Early Victorian, England |
| Herman Melville | Early Victorian, America |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Early Victorian, America |
| Henry David Thoreau | Early Victorian, America |
| Charles Darwin | Early Victorian, Britian |
| George Elliot | Early Victorian, English |
| Mary Shelley | Romantic, Britian |
| William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Romantic, England |
| Jane Austen | Romantic, Britian |
| Lord Byron | Romantic, England |
| Sir Walter Scott | Romantic, England |
| Karl Marx | Realistic, Germany |
| Louisa May Alcott | Realistic, America |
| George Elliot (girl) | Realistic, England |
| Thomas Hardy | Realistic, Britian |
| Mark Twain | Realistic, America |
| Henry James | Realistic, America |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Realistic, Britian |
| Henrik Ibsen | Realistic, Norwegian |
| George Bernard Shaw | Realistic, Irish |
| Oscar Wilde | Realistic, Irish |
| Stephen Crane | Realistic, America |
| Theodore Drieser | Naturalistic & Symbolic, America |
| Jack London | Naturalistic & Symbolic, America |
| Joseph Conrad | Modernism, Britian |
| Edith Wharton | Modernism, America |
| John Millington Synge | Modernism, Irish |
| D.H. Lawrence | Modernism, England |
| Willa Cather | Modernism, America |
| T.S. Eliot | Modernism, America |
| Aldous Huxley | Modernism, Britian |
| James Joyce | Modernism, Irish |
| E.M. Foster | Modernism, England |
| Virginia Woolf | Modernism, England |
| T.E. Lawrence | Modernism, England |
| Earnest Hemingway | Modernism, America |
| William Faulkner | Modernism, America |
| W.B. Yeats | Modernism, Irish |
| John Steinback | Modernism, America |
| James Joyce | Modernism, Irish |
| Richard Wright | Modernism, America |
| George Orwell | Modernism, England |
| Arthur Miller | Modernism, American |
| J.D. Salinger | Modernism, America |
| Samuel Beckett | Modernism, Irish |
| Vladmir Nabokov | Modernism, England |
| Jack Kerouac | Modernism, America |
| Chinua Achebe | Modernism, Nigeria |
| Iris Murdock | Modernism, Britian |
| Theodore Roethke | Modernism, America |
| Sylvia Plath | Postmodernism, America |
| Maya Angelou | Postmodernism, America |
| Alice Walker | Postmodernism, America |
| Raymond Carver | Postmodernism, America |
| Toni Morrison | Postmodernism, America |
| Amy Tan | Postmodernism, America |
| Thomas Pynchon | Postmodernism, America |