PERIODISASI PUISI

	600‐1200 Old English (Anglo‐Saxon)		Beowulf
	1200‐1500 Middle English		Geoffrey Chaucer
	1500‐1660 The English Renaissance
1500‐1558		Tudor Period	Humanist Era	Thomas More, John Skelton
1558‐1603		Elizabethan Period	High Renaissance	Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney William Shakespeare
1603‐1625		Jacobean Period	Mannerist Style (1590‐1640) other styles: Metaphysical Poets; Devotional Poets	Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, Emilia Lanyer
1625‐1649		Caroline Period		John Ford, John Milton
1649‐1660		The Commonwealth & The Protectorate	Baroque Style, and later, Rococo Style	Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes
1660‐1700		The Restoration
1700‐1800		The Eighteenth Century	The Enlightenment; Neoclassical Period; The Augustan Age	Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson
1785‐1830		Romanticism	The Age of Revolution	William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, the Brontës
1830‐1901		Victorian Period	Early, Middle and Late Victorian	Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1901‐1960		Modern Period	The Edwardian Era (1901‐1910); The Georgian Era (1910‐1914)	G.M. Hopkins, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot
1960‐		Postmodern and Contemporary Period		Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, John Fowles, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt