History of English Literature
Periods of English Literature
1. Old English or Anglo Saxon Period. (450 -1066)
2. Middle English Period (1066 – 1500)
(a) Early Middle English Period
Or,
Anglo Norman Period (1066 – 1350)
(b) The Age of Chaucer (1350 – 1460)
Late Middle English Period
Or,
(c) The Fifteenth Century (1400 - 1500)
3. The Renaissance (1500 -1660)
(a) The Preparation of Renaissance (1516 – 1578)
(b) The Height of Renaissance (1578 – 1625)
(i) The Elizabethan Age
Or,The Age of Shakespeare (1558 -1603)
(ii) The Jacobean Age (1603 – 1625)
(c) Decline or End of Renaissance (1625 – 1660)
(i) The Caroline Age
Or,The Age of Milton (1625 – 1649)
(ii) The Commonwealth Period
Or,The Puritan Interregnum (1649 – 1660)
4. The Neo Classical Period (1660 – 1798)
(i) The Restoration Period
Or,
The Age of Dryden (1660 – 1700)
(ii) The Augustan Age
Or,The Age of Pope (1700 – 1740)
(iii) The Age of Transition
OrThe Age of Sensibility
Or,The Age of Dr. Johnson (1740 – 1790)
5. The Romantic Period (1798 – 1830)
Or,
The Period of the Romantic Revival
Or,
The Return to Nature
Or,
The Age of Wordsworth (1798 – 1830)
6.The Victorian Period (1830 – 1901)
Or,
The age of Tennyson
(i) The Early Victorians, or The Pre-Raphaelites (1848 – 1860)
(ii) The Middle Victorians
(iii) The Later Victorians
Or,
The Age of Hardy (1887 – 1928)
7. The Edwardian Period (1901 – 1914)
8. The Modern Period (1914 onward)
Or,
The 20th Century
Or,
The Age of T.S. Eliot
(i) The Gregorian Period (1910 – 1936)
(ii) Inter-war Period (1918 – 1939)
(iii) The Modern Age (1930 – 1955)
(iv) Post-Modern Period (1955 onward)
Rulers of England after the Norman Conquest
01. William I, the conquer, (1066 – 1087)
02. William II (1087 – 1100)
03. Henry I (1100 - 1135)
04. Stephen (1135 – 1154)
05. Henry II (1154 – 1189)
06. Richard I (1189 – 1199)
07. John (1199 – 1216)
08. Henry III (1216 – 1272)
09. Edward I (1272 – 1307)
10. Edward II (1307 – 1327)
11. Edward III (1327 – 1377)
12. Richard II (1377 – 1399)
13. Henry IV (1399 – 1413)
14. Henry V (1413 – 1422)
15. Henry VI (1422 – 1461) & (1470 -1471)
16. Edward IV (1461 – 1470) & (1471 – 1483)
17. Edward V (1483)
18. Richard III (1483 – 1485)
19. Henry VI (1485 – 1509)
20. Henry VIII (1509 – 1547)
21. Edward VI (1547 – 1553)
22. Mary I (1553 – 1558)
23. Elizabeth I (1558 – 1603)
24. James I (1603 – 1625)
25. Charles I (1625 – 1649)
26. Charles II (1660 – 1685)
27. James II (1685 – 1688)
28. William III (1688 – 1702)
29. Mary II (1688 – 1694)
30. Anne (1702 – 1714)
31. George I (1714 – 1727)
32. George II (1727 – 1760)
33. George III (1762 – 1820)
34. George IV (1822 – 1830)
35. William IV (1832 – 1837)
36. Victoria (1837 – 1901)
37. Edward VII (19 01 – 1910)
38. George V (1910 – 1936)
39. Edward VII (1936 – 1952)
40. Edward II (1952 onward)
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