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History of English Literature

History of English Literature

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

    Or  

            The 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

    Rulers of England

    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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