Periods of English Literature

 Periods of English Literature :-

 The exact number, dates, and names of these periods very, but the list below conforms to widespread practice. The list is followed by a brief comment on each period, in chronological order.

450-1066  Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period

1066-1500  Middle English Period

1500-1660  The Renaissance (or Early Modern)

 1558-1603  Elizabethan Age

 1603-1625  Jacobean Age

 1625-1649  Caroline Age

 1649-1660  Commonwealth Period 

1660-1785  The Neoclassical Period

 1660-1700  The Restoration

 1700-1745  The Augustan Age

 1745-1785  The Age of sensibility (or Age of Johnson)

1785-1832  The Romantic Period

1832-1901  The Victorian Period

 1848-1860  The pre- Raphaelites

1880-1901  Aestheticism and Decadence

1901-1945  The Modern Period

 1901-1914  The Edwardian Period

 1914-1939  The Georgian Period

1945-1970  The Postwar Period

1970-            The Postmodern Period