Periods of the British Literature 英國文學的各個時期

The Middle Ages 中古時期 500-1500 AD  

Beowulf

Geoffrey Chaucer

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Mysterious Plays

Sir Thomas Malory 

The Renaissance 文藝復興時期 1500-1660 AD  

Edmund Spencer

Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Queen Elizabeth

Sir Walter Ralegh

Sir Philip Sidney

Michael Draydon

Thomas Nashe

Aemillia Lanyer

John Donne

Ben Jonson

John Milton

Lady Mary Wroth

Robert Herrick

George Herbert

Richard Lovelace 

The Neo-Classical Period  新古典時期 1660-1785 AD

John Dryden

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Matthew Prior

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Thomas Gray

William Collins

William Cowper   

The Romanic Period 浪漫時期 1785-1830 AD 

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Smauel Taylor Coleridge

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Keats

The Victorian Period  維多利亞時期 1830-1901 AD 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Robert Browning

Matthew Arnold

Christina Rossetti

Gerard Manley Hopkins   

The Modern Period 現代主義時期 1901-1945 AD 

Thomas Hardy

Bernard Shaw

Joseph Conrad

William Butler Yeats

Virginia Woolf 

James Joyce

D. H. Lawreance

T. S. Eliot

Katherine Mansfield

Samuel Beckett

Dylan Thomas 

The Post-Modern Period 後現代主義時期 1945 AD --

Doris Lessing

Philip Larkin

Nadine Gordimer

Thom Gunn

Derek Walcott

Ted Hughes

Harold Pinter

Chinua Achebe

Alice Munro

Geoffrey Hill

V. S. Naipaul

Edna OBrien

Fleur Adcock

Tony Harrison

Anta Desai

Tom Stoppard

Les Murray

Seamus Heaney

J. M. Coetzee

Eavan Boland

Craig Raine

Salman Rushdie

James Fenton

Paul Muldoon