British Literary Periods
- 450-1066: Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period
- 1066-1500: Middle English Period
- 1500-1660: The Renaissance
- 1558-1603: Elizabethan Age
- 1603-1625: Jacobean Age
- 1625-1649: Caroline Age
- 1649-1660: Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum)
- 1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period
- 1660-1700: The Restoration
- 1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope)
- 1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson)
- 1785-1830: The Romantic Period
- 1832-1901: The Victorian Period
- 1848-1860: The Pre-Raphaelites
- 1880-1901: Aestheticism and Decadence
- 1901-1914: The Edwardian Period
- 1910-1936: The Georgian Period
- 1914-1945: The Modern Period
- 1945-present: Postmodern Period.
