Subhraleena Deka
Literature is not just a form of study, but a way of life.
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." - C S Lewis
Anna Comnena, Alexiad, Beowulf, and many other anonymous writers who reigned the age, which lasted from about 500 to 1500.
Boccaccio, Dante, Machiavelli, and Petrarch were a part of Renaissance Literature. This age last from 14th century to 17th century.
Samuel Johnson, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jonathan Swift, Mary Wollstonecraft, andVoltaire were a few famous writers of this age. This age was from 1650s to 1776.
From 1800 to 1850, this period saw writers like Jane Austen, Leigh Hunt, Coleridge, William Blake, Mary Shelley, P B Shelley, John Keats, Byron, and a lot more.
This genre started around 19th century during the 1820s. A few writers are - Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Margaret Fuller.
This genre saw its rise in 19th century. A few writers of this period are - Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy.
This genre came to the fore during the mid 19th century and lasted for almost half a century. Writers are Gustave Flaubert, and Madame Bovary among others.
Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, and Stephen Crane are a few writers of this era which lasted from 1870 to about 1920.
W B Yeats, T S ELiot, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemmingway, and William Faulkner are a few major writers of this time.
E M Forster and Lyton Strachey are major literary figures of this age. The time frame of this period is 1900 to 1965.
Erza Pound, Abert Camus, Samuel Beckett, and Jean Paul Sartre are a few existentialist writers. This period started from 1850s and is prevalent even now.
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and a few other writers are very prominent. This genre lasted from 1940s to about 1960s.
