Glossary all English Literature Period

1. The Old English Period Or The Anglo-Saxon Period _450-1066

2. The Middle English Period_1066-1500

a. Anglo-Norman Period _1066-1340
b. The Age of Geoffrey Chaucer _1340-1400
c. Barren Age_1400-1485

3. The Renaissance Period

a. preparation for Renaissance_1500-1558
b. Elizabethan Age_1558-1603
c. Jacobean Age_1603-1625
d. Caroline Age_1625-1649
e. Commonwealth Period_1649-1660

4. The Neoclassical Period_1660-1798

a. The Restoration Period
b. The Augustan Age Or The Age of Alexander Pope_1700-1745
c. The Age of Sensibility Or The Age of Jonson_1745-1798

5. The Romantic Period_1798-1832

6. The Victorian Period_1832-1901


a. The Pre-Raphaelites_1848-1860
b. Aestheticism and Decadence

7. The Modern Period ( Till the World War II) _1901-1939

a. The Edwardian Period
b. The Georgian Period

8. The Postmodern Period_1939