Authors + Titles

Augustan Period: 1700 - 1790

Joseph Addison: The Spectator / The Tatler Jonathan Swift: Modest Proposal / Gullivers Travels Alexander Pope: Essay on Men / The Rape of the Lock John Gay: The Beggars Opera Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe / Moll Flanders Samuel Richardson: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded / Clarissa Henry Fielding Laurence Sterne Thomas Gray Dr. Samuel Johnson Robert Burns

Romantic Period: 1790 - 1837

William Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Geore Gordon, Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Maria Edgeworth Sir Walter Scott Jane Austen

Victorian Literature: 1837 - 1901

Charlotte Bront Emily Bront Anne Bront Lord Tennyson Robert Browning Elizabeth Barret Matthew Arnold Dante Gabriel Rossetti Christina Rossetti Gerard Hopkins Charles Dickens William Makepeace Thackeray Anthony Trollope George Eliot Lewis Carroll

Late Victorian Literature: 1880 -1900

Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw Thomas Hardy A.E. Housman Rudyard Kipling

Twentieth Century - Ends and Beginnings: 1901 - 1919

E.M. Foster Henry James Joseph Conrad Thomas Hardy Rupert Brooke Siegfried Sassoon Wilfred Owen Edward Thomas

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

D.H. Lawrence 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

New Beginnings: 1955 - 1980

Samuel Beckett

Harold Pinter Jean Rhys William Golding Doris Lessing Kingsley Amis Seamus Heaney

Recent and Contemporary Literature : 1980 - present

V.S. Naipaul J.M. Coetzee Salman Rushdie Jeanette Winterson