Periods of English Literature

Lesson 1:

#Literature

The name of the periods & the timeline:

450-1066 

Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period

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1066-1500 

Middle English Period

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1500-1660 

The Renaissance (or Early Modern)

↪️(Sub period)

1558-1603 

Elizabethan Age (Queen Elizabeth)

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1603-1625  

Jacobean Age (James I)

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1625-1649 

Caroline Age (Charles I)

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1649-1660

Commonwealth Period or Puritan Interregnum (Oliver Cromwell)

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1660-1785

The Neoclassical Period 

↪️(Sub period)

1660-1700 

The Restoration (Age of Dryden)

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 1700-1745

 The Augustan Age (Age of Pope)

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1745-1785

The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) 

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1785-1832 

The Romantic Period

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1832-1901

The Victorian Period

↪️(Sub period)

 1848-1860 

The Pre-Raphaelites 

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1880-1901 

Aestheticism and Decadence

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1901-1914 

The Edwardian Period

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1910-1936 

The Georgian Period

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1914- 

The Modern Period

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    1945-Till date 

Postmodernism