Literary Periods Assigned
The periods you will research is determined by your date of birth as follows:
January 1 - February 15 ***** American Romantics / American Drama 1911-1945
February 16 - March 31 ***** Transcendentalists / American Drama 1946 - 1980
April 1 - May 15 ***********Abolitionists / American Writers before WWII
May 16 - June 30 ********** Realists / The Harlem Renaissance
July 1 - August 15 ********** Naturalists / American Writers after WWII
August 16 - September 30 **** Later 19th Century African Americans / The Beats
October 1 - November 15 **** American Writers after 1970 / American Romantics
November 16 - December 31 * Realists / The Southern Writer's Tradition w
