The History of English Literature

  

The History of English Literature

Time	Periods of English Literature
450-1066	The old English Period / The Anglo – Saxon Period
1066-1500	The Middle English period 1066-1340: The Anglo- Norman Period/The Norman-French period. 1340-1400: The Age of Chaucer/The late middle Age. 1400-1485: Barren Age
1500-1660	The Renaissance period 1500-1558: Preparation For the Renaissance 1558-1603: Elizabethan Age 1603-1625: Jacobean Age 1625-1649: Caroline Age 1649-1660: Commonwealth Period (Or Puritan Interregnum)
1660-1798	The Neo-classical Period 1660-1700: The Restoration period 1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or The Age of Pope) 1745-1798: The Age of Sensibility (or The Age of Johnson)
1798-1832	The Romantic Period
1832-1901	The Victorian Period 1848-1860: The Pre-Raphaelites 1880-1901: Aestheticism & Decadence
1901-1939	The Mogern Period 1901-1910: The Edwardian Period 1910-1936: The Georgian Period
1939	The Post-modern Period