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PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
| 450 A.D - 1066 A.D | Anglo - Saxon Period or, Old English Period |
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| 1066 - 1500 | Middle English Period | |
| 1066 - 1350 | Anglo - Norman period | |
| 1350 - 1400 | The Age of chaucer | |
| 1400 - 1485 | Barren Age | |
| 1500 - 1660 | The Renaissance | |
| 1500 - 1558 | Preparation for the Renaissance | |
| 1558 - 1603 | The Elezabethan period | |
| 1603 - 1625 | The Jacobean period | |
| 1625 - 1649 | The Caroline period | |
| 1649 - 1660 | The Commonwealth period | |
| 1620 - 1660 | The Puritan period | |
| 1660 - 1798 | The Neo - Classical period | |
| 1660 - 1700 | The Restoration perid | |
| 1700 - 1745 | The Augustan period | |
| 1745 - 1798 | Age of Johnson or, Period of the Reason |
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| 1798 - 1832 | The Romantic period | |
| 1832 - 1901 | The Victorian period | |
| 1901 - 1914 | The Edwardian period | |
| 1910 - 1936 | The Georgian period | |
| 1914 - Now | The Modern Period |