The division of the continuity of English literature into segments of time –

Up to 450 : Dark Age

450 – 1066 : Old English (or Anglo – Saxon) Period

1066 – 1500 : Middle English Period (or Anglo – Norman) Period

1500 – 1600 : The Renaissance (or Early Modern)

1558 – 1603 : Elizabethan Age

1603 – 1625 : Jacobean Age

1625 – 1649 : Caroline Age

1649 – 1660 : Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum)

1660 – 1798 : The Neoclassical Period

1660 – 1700 : The Restoration

1700 – 1745 : The Augustan (or Age of Alexander Pope)

1745 – 1798 : The Age of Sensibility / Transitional Period (or Age of Dr. Johnson)

1798 – 1837 : The Romantic Period

1837 – 1901 : The Victorian Period

1848 – 1860 : The Pre-Raphaelites

1880 – 1901 : Aestheticism and Decadence

1901 – 1945 : Modern Period ***

1901 – 1914 : The Edwardian Period

1910 – 1936 : The Georgian Period

1945 – Postmodernism

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