A Short History of English Literature

Druidic times - the Romans are coming - fear, anxiety, depression

Roman times - Boadecea is coming - fear, anxiety, depression

Post-Roman times - Grendel's mom is coming - fear, anxiety, depression

Anglo Saxon times - the Vikings are coming - fear, anxiety, depression

End of 1st millenium AD - the Vikings are...ooops sorry.... the Normans are coming - fear, anxiety, depression

Early 2nd millenium AD - the Devil is coming - fear, anxiety, depression

Elizabethan times - the Scots/assasins in a tavern/a future full of misquoations are coming - fear, anxiety, depression, racism

Jacobean times - the questions "what is a  moronix ox?" and "what is it like to be a moronic ox?" are coming - fear, anxiety, depression (esp for all future students of English lit)

Restoration times - the literary critics are coming - life will never be the same

Romantic times - the drunk poets are coming - wuhoo

Victorian times - elementary poverty is coming - fear, anxiety, depression...with a few murders mixed in the mixture

Early 20th century - War is coming, and its bringing Hardy and Joyce with it (that's 3 of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse) - the souls of the readers died

Post-Modern - nobody is coming