LITERARY PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
450-1066: Old English (or Anglo Saxon) Chaucer, drama ,romance and verse
1066-1500: Middle English Period
1066-1500: Middle English Period
1500-1660: The Renaissance ==>A period of reibirth...William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne
1558-1603: Elizabethan Age
1603-1625: Jacobean Age
1625-1649: Caroline Age
1649-1660: Commonwealth Period
1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period==> The Regency Period in England...Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Horace Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith, Edward Young
1660-1700: The Restoration
1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope)
1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age og Johnson)
1785-1830: The Romantic Period (includes the Gothic Period) ==>Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Ann Radcliffe
1832-1901: The Victorian Period The Great Age of the English Novel: realistic, thickly plotted and long.Emily Bronte, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Browning
1901-1914: The Edwardian Period Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence
1910-1936: The Georgian Period
1558-1603: Elizabethan Age
1603-1625: Jacobean Age
1625-1649: Caroline Age
1649-1660: Commonwealth Period
1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period==> The Regency Period in England...Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Horace Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith, Edward Young
1660-1700: The Restoration
1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope)
1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age og Johnson)
1785-1830: The Romantic Period (includes the Gothic Period) ==>Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Ann Radcliffe
1832-1901: The Victorian Period The Great Age of the English Novel: realistic, thickly plotted and long.Emily Bronte, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Browning
1901-1914: The Edwardian Period Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence
1910-1936: The Georgian Period
1914-1945: The Modern Period
1945-Present: Postmodern Period Ted Hughes, Samuel Beckett, John Osborne
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