ENGLISH LITERATURE

                Literary Periods,         

                Movements, and  

               History Literature

       History Henry Augustin Beers was a literature historian and professor at Yale who lived at the turn of the 19th century. He wrote intensely detailed histories of American and English literature, covering the periods up until what were his modern times. We have collected those works below.

English Literature History From the Conquest to Chaucer 1066-1400

From Chaucer to Spenser 1400-1599

The Age of Shakespeare 1564-1616

The Age of Milton 1608-1674

From the Restoration to the Death of Pope 1660-1744

The Death of Pope to the French Revolution 1744-1789

The French Revolution to the Death of Scott 1789-1832

From the Death of Scott to the Present Time 1832-1893

Appendix

        American Literature History

Preface The Colonial Period 1607-1765

The Revolutionary Period 1765-1815

The Era of National Expansion 1815-1837

The Concord Writers 1837-1861

The Cambridge Scholars 1837-1861

Literature in the Cities 1837-1861

Literature Since 1861

Appendix

Periods of English Literature