Overview of English literature

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PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

450 A.D - 1066 A.D		Anglo - Saxon Period or, Old English Period
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
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