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Periods of English Literature Geoffrey Chaucer Periods of English Literature The Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period (roughly 500-1066): the English National Epic: The Song of Beowulf Middle Ages (roughly 1066-1500): chivalry romance: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl / Geoffrey Chaucer Renaissance (14th-16th Century): A period of rebirth from roughly the 14th through the 16th Centuries. Shakespeare, Spenser, Francis Bacon, Moore are a few of the authors of this period. 17th Century: Metaphysical School John Milton Paradise Lost Age of Enlightenment (the 18th century): Romantic Peri