Worldview
reverence for nature/Transcendentalism
Romantic
didactic / courtliness
Medieval
World Wars
20th Century
"The Raven"
Poe
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Deism/Rationalism
Restoration/Neoclassical
ornate, elevated language
Renaissance
Battle of Hastings (Norman Invasion)
Medieval
"Poetry"
Moore
"The Canterbury Tales"
Geoffrey Chaucer
loyalty/Code of Comitatus
Anglo-Saxon
focus on man's intellectual progress
Victorian/Realism
Golden Age of British Literature
"Sympathy"
Dunbar
Keats
Sola Scriptura
Puritan
dialect/local color
Victorian/Realism
Golden Age of American Literature
Romantic
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards
"Ulysses"
Tennyson
Golden Age of British Literature
Renaissance Era
Harlem Renaissance
20th Century
Gilded Age
Realism
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Animal Farm
George Orwell
alienation of man / relativism
20th Century
belief in personal God/religious writing
Puritan
Declaration of Independence/Constitution
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Daffodils"
Wordsworth