An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature Chapter 1 The Renaissance Period I. Christopher Marlowe II. William Shakespeare III. John Donne IV. John Milton Chapter 2 The Neoclassical Period I. Alexander Pope II. Jonathan Swift III. Henry Fielding IV. Richard Brinsley Sheridan V. Thomas Gray Chapter 3 The Romantic Period I. William Wordsworth II. George Gordon Byron III. Percy Bysshe Shelley IV. John Keats V. Jane Austen Chapter 4 The Victorian Period I. Charles Dickens II. The Bronte Sisters III. Robert Browning IV. George Eliot V. Thomas Hardy Chapter 5 The Modern Period I. George Bernard Shaw II. William Butler Yeats III. T.S. Eliot IV. D.H. Lawrence V. JamesJoyce