Authors of Old English & Middle age

Authors of Different Literary Ages & Their Works Ages of English Literature

The Old English Period (450-1066):

Old English – the earliest form of the English language – was spoken and written in Anglo-Saxon Britain from 450 AD until 1150 AD.

Poets of the Era:

Name of the Poet	Title and Pen Name	Notable Works
Caedmon (637-735)	Earliest poet/first known poet in English Literature	কাব্য: Cædmon’s Hymn
Cynewulf		Juliana তার একটি বিখ্যাত কবিতা
King Alfred  the Great (849-899)	Founder of English Prose	গদ্যগ্রন্থ: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Middle English Period (1066-1500):

Name of the Poet	Title and Pen Name	Notable Works
Dante (1265-1321)	পুরো নাম: Dante Alighieri	Famous poem: The Divine Comedy
Sir John  Mandeville		Travels of Sir John Mandeville
John Wycliffe	Titles: Morning Star of the Reformation Evening Star of Scholasticism
William Langland		বিখ্যাত কাব্যগ্রন্থ: Piers Plowman
Geoffrey Chaucer	Titles (উপাধি): 1. The First great modernist 2. Father of English Language 3. Father of English Literature 4. First Humorist in English Literature	Famous Poems: 1.     The House of Fame 2.     Troilus and Criseyde 3.     The Parliament of Fowls
Sir Thomas Malory		বিখ্যাত গদ্যগ্রন্থ: Le Morte d’Arthur
John Lydgate		Troy Book The Siege of Thebes
William Dunbar		The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins

 

• The Renaissance Period (1500-1660)
• The Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)
• The Jacobean Period (1603-1625)
• The Caroline Period (1625-1649)
• The Commonwealth Period (1649-1660)
• The Neoclassical Period (1660-1798)
• The Restoration Period (1660-1700)
• The Augustan Period (1700-1745)
• The Age of Sensibility Period (1745-1798)
• The Romantic Period (1798-1832)
• The Victorian Period (1832-1901)
• The Modern Period (1901-1939)
• The Post-Modern Period (1939-Present)