Periods in English Literature

a)      450-1066 – Anglo-Saxon Period

b)      1066-1500 – Middle English Period

                                             i.            1066-1350 – Anglo Norman Period

                                           ii.            1350-1400 – Age of Chaucer

                                          iii.            1400-1485 – Barren Age

c)       1500-1660 – The Renaissance Period

                                             i.            1500-1558 – Preparation for the Renaissance

                                           ii.            1558-1603 – Elizabethan Age

                                          iii.            1603-1625 – Jocobean Age

                                         iv.            1625-1649 – Caroline Age

                                           v.            1649-1660 – Commonwealth Period

                                         vi.            1585-1613 – Shakespearean Period

                                        vii.            1620-1660 – Puritan Period

d)      1660-1798 – The Neoclassical Period

                                             i.            1660-1700 – The Restoration Period

                                           ii.            1700-1750 – The Augustan Age (Age of Pope)

                                          iii.            1750-1798 – The Age of Sensibility (Age of Johnson)

e)      1798-1837 – The Romantic Period

f)       1837-1901 – Victorian Period

g)      1901-1939 – Modern Period

                                             i.            1901-1914 – Edwardian Period

                                           ii.            1910-1936 – Georgian Period

h)      1939-till the date – Post-modern Period