Timeline with authors Joseph Addison Jonathan Swift Alexander Pope John Gay

Augustan Period 1700 - 1790

Daniel Defoe Samuel Richardson Henry Fielding Laurence Sterne Thomas Gray Dr. Samuel Johnson Robert Burns William Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Geore Gordon, Lord Byron

Romantic Period 1790 - 1837

Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Maria Edgeworth Sir Walter Scott Jane Austen Charlotte Bront Emily Bront Anne Bront Lord Tennyson Robert Browning

Elizabeth Barret

Victorian Literature 1837 - 1901

Matthew Arnold Dante Gabriel Rossetti Christina Rossetti Gerard Hopkins Charles Dickens William Makepeace Thackeray Anthony Trollope George Eliot Lewis Carroll Oscar Wilde

Late Victorian Literature 1880 -1900

George Bernard Shaw Thomas Hardy A.E. Housman Rudyard Kipling E.M. Foster Henry James

Twentieth Century Ends and Beginnings 1901 - 1919

Joseph Conrad Thomas Hardy Rupert Brooke Siegfried Sassoon Wilfred Owen Edward Thomas D.H. Lawrence

Post-War to Post-War Modernism esp. 1920s

James Joyce Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot

William Butler Yeats Virginia Woolf

Post-War to Post-War Non-Modernism 1930s and 1940s

W.H. Auden George Orwell Evelyn Waugh Graham Greene Samuel Beckett Harold Pinter

New Beginnings 1955 - 1980

Jean Rhys William Golding Doris Lessing Kingsley Amis Seamus Heaney V.S. Naipaul

Recent and Contemporary Literature 1980 - present

J.M. Coetzee Salman Rushdie Jeanette Winterson