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Literature Periods
Periods of English Lit
| Dates | Name |
|---|---|
| 428-1100 | Old English Period |
| 1100-1350 | Anglo Norman Period |
| 1350-1500 | Middle English Period |
| 1500-1660 | Renaissance Period |
| 1500-1557 | Early Tudor Age |
| 1558-1603 | Elizabethan Age |
| 1603-1625 | Jacobean Age |
| 1625-1642 | Caroline Age |
| 1649-1660 | Commonwealth Interregnum |
| 1660-1798 | Neoclassical Period |
| 1660-1700 | Restoration Age |
| 1700-1750 | Augustan Age |
| 1750-1798 | Age of Johnson |
| 1798-1870 | Romantic Period |
| 1798-1832 | Age of Romantic Movement |
| 1832-1870 | Early Victorian Age |
| 1870-1914 | Realistic Period |
| 1870-1901 | Late Victorian Age |
| 1901-1914 | Edwardian Age |
| 1914-1965 | Modernist Period |
| 1965-2023 | Present Postmodernist or Contemporary Period |
| 1607-1765 | Colonial Period |