Time Periods

Question 1

400-1300CE

Answer 1

Old English, Caedmon (“Hymn”), Beowulf

Question 2

1300-1500CE

Answer 2

Middle English, Gutenberg Bible (1456). Langland (Piers Plowman), Chaucer, Thomas Malory

Question 3

1500-1558

Answer 3

Early Tudor period (Henry VII, VIII, Edward VI, and Mary). John Skelton, Thomas More

Question 4

1558-1603

Answer 4

Elizabethan. Sidney, Spenser, Lyly, Marlowe, Shakespeare

Question 5

1603-25

Answer 5

Jacobean. Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher

Question 6

1625-49

Answer 6

Caroline Period, Charles I. John Donne, John Webster

Question 7

1649-60

Answer 7

Execution of Charles I, Cromwell and the Interregnum. Milton, Robert Herrick, and Marvell

Question 8

1660-1714

Answer 8

Restoration, Reign of Charles II. Congreve, George Etherege, John Bunyan (Pilgrim’s Progress), John Dryden (Absalom and Achitopel)

Question 9

1714-1727

Answer 9

Queen Anne, last Stuart ruler. Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope

Question 10

1727-60

Answer 10

George I, House of Hanover. Swift, Henry Fielding, Thomas Gray

Question 11

1760-90

Answer 11

George III, The Enlightenment, The American Revolution (1775-83), the Gothic Novel. Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Horace Walpole, Thomas Chatterton (forger of medieval poetry under name Thomas Rowley, died at 17 of self-inflicted arsenic poisoning), Mary Wollstonecraft, William Cowper (hymnodist, most famous for Olney Hymns, The Task, and translations of Homer; “God moves in mysterious ways”)

Question 12

1790-1820

Answer 12

Early Romantic Period, Sturm und Drang. Anne Radcliffe, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Charles Lamb (“Tales of Shakespeare” and working with Coleridge), Austen

Question 13

1820-37

Answer 13

Middle Romantic Period. Reign of George IV (1820-30) and William IV (1830-7). Thomas Carlyle (Historian of French Rev., source for Dickens), Tennyson (Ulysses and In Memoriam), Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe

Question 14

1837-69 (Britain)

Answer 14

Late Romantic/Victorian. Macaulay (essayist and writer on British history; important for “Whig history”), Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning

Question 15

1837-69 (America)

Answer 15

Transcendentalism. Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville

Question 16

1869-1901

Answer 16

Late Victorian; Realism. Ruskin (art critic w/ interest in nature’s role in society), George Meredith (novelist and poet), Algernon C. Swinburne (decadent poetry on classical themes, like Atalanta in Calydon), George Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins (sprung rhythm, Catholicism, The Windhover), Thomas Hardy, Mark Twain, Henry James

Question 17

1901-1939

Answer 17

Modernism. Yeats, Conrad, DH Lawrence, Auden, Joyce, Woolf, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein, TS Eliot, Pound, WEB Du Bois