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