literary period
literary epoch

Giordani closes the literary epoch of the classicists.

A literary epoch began.

He was a literary craftsman who employed skilfully various verse forms from different literary epochs.

Therefore, a top-down view of the literary history of the Restoration has more validity than that of most literary epochs.

Frye divides his study of tragic, comic, and thematic literature into five "modes", each identified with a specific literary epoch: mythic, romantic, high mimetic, low mimetic, and ironic.

Indeed the fundamental characteristic of this literary epoch is that it perfected itself in every kind of art, in particular uniting the essentially Italian character of its language with classicism of style.

It is a literary epoch that featured the rapid development of the novel, an explosion in satire, the mutation of drama from political satire into melodrama, and an evolution toward poetry of personal exploration.

His religious faith, the seriousness of his character, the deep melancholy settled in his heart, his continued aspiration after an ideal perfection-all place him outside the literary epoch represented by Machiavelli, Ariosto, and Berni.

Momčilo Nastasijević (23 September 1894 - 13 February 1938) was a Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist born in Gornji Milanovac in Serbia, and whose work was issued during the literary epoch between the two world wars.

Though tame and lifeless, the book was read with avidity as affording for the first time a quantity of authentic information about the best-known name of a literary epoch; four editions appeared within the year (one at Dublin), and the work was translated into French (it was also prefixed to Pope's Works, Paris, 1799).