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.
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