Periods of the English Literature

450-1066 Old English or Anglo Saxon Period

1066-1500 Middle English Period

1500-1600 The Renaissance Period

1521-1603 Reformation

1558-1603 Elizabethan Age

1603-1625 Jacobean Age

1625-1649 Caroline Period

1625-1660 Commonwealth, Puritanism Age

1660-1700 The Restoration Period

1700-1740 Neo-Classical Age

1740-1800 Transition Age, The Age of Johnson

1798-1837 The Romantic Period

1837-1903 The Victorian Period

1848-1860 The Pre-Raphaelites

1890-1914 Acsthetic Movement

1912-1914 Imagist Movement

1910-1936 The Georgian Period

1901-1945 The Modern Period

1914-1918 War Poetry

1945. The Post Modern Period