Literary Movements

1. When was it? 1944 – c.1970 2. Who was writing? Jack Kerouac Allen Ginsberg William Burroughs Ken Kesey 3. History The Beat Movement (participants of which are known as ‘The Beat Generation’) was formed around a group of American writers who came to prominence at the conclusion of World War II. The…

1. When was it? Late 19th Century – Early 20th Century 2. Who was writing? Joseph Conrad Franz Kafka George Bernard Shaw James Joyce T.S. Eliot Virginia Woolf Ezra Pound Thomas Mann Gertrude Stein F. Scott Fitzgerald D.H. Lawrence Ernest Hemingway George Orwell Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams Albert Camus William Faulkner Graham…

1. When was it? 1837-1901 2. Who was writing? William Thackeray Charles Dickens Alfred, Lord Tennyson Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anne Brontë George Eliot Robert Browning Thomas Hardy Dante Gabriel Rossetti Christina Rossetti Oscar Wilde 3. History The Victorian Age was the height of the British Empire. The largest empire…

1. When was it? Mid-18th century – present Gothic literature reached the height of its popularity in the 19th century. 2. Who was writing? Ann Radcliffe Mary Shelley Edgar Allan Poe Bram Stoker Henry James 3. History Gothic literature grew out of literary habits and styles of the 18th and 19th centuries. The…

1. When was it? c.1785-c.1830 2. Who was writing? William Blake Robert Burns Mary Wollstonecraft William Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Gordon, Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats 3. History The Enlightenment had brought about great social transformation in England, with endeavours for a fairer social model and…

1. When was it? 1660 – late 18th century 2. Who was writing? John Dryden Jonathan Swift Alexander Pope Daniel Defoe Samuel Johnson James Boswell 3. History After the execution of Charles I in 1649, England existed as a republic until 1660 when, following the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, political…

1. When was it? 1558-1603 2. Who was writing? John Donne Edmund Spenser Sir Philip Sidney Thomas Middleton William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe Ben Johnson John Lyly Thomas Nashe Thomas Wyatt 3. History Continuing from her father, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I oversaw a time of conquest and English dominance in Western Europe…

1. When was it? 1066 – 16th century The height of Middle English literature is generally seen as the 14th-15th century. 2. Who was writing? Geoffrey Chaucer John Lydgate John Skelton 3. History The Norman Conquest of 1066 saw much of modern-day England fall to William the Conqueror, a duke…

1. When was it? c. 5th century – Pre-14th century The first known ‘Old English’ texts date from around the 7th century. 2. Who was writing? Few of the written examples of Old English denote the author. However, some are known: Cædmon (*the earliest known Old English writer) Bede Aldhelm Cynewulf . 3.…