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Timeline of British Literary Periods

?B.C.-A.D. 428 Celtic and Roman Britain
428-1100 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
1100-1350 Anglo-Norman Period
1350-1500 Middle English Period
1500-1660 The Renaissance
  1500-1557 Early Tudor Age
  1558-1603 Elizabethan Age
  1603-1625 Jacobean Age
  1625-1649 Caroline Age
  1649-1660 Commonwealth Interregnum
1660-1798 Neo-Classical Period
  1660-1700 Restoration Age
  1700-1750 Augustan Age
  1750-1798 Age of Johnson
1798-1870 Romantic Period
  1798-1832 Age of the Romantic Movement
  1832-1870 Early Victorian Age
1870-1914 Realistic Period
  1870-1901 Late Victorian Age
  1901-1914 Edwardian Age
1914-1965 Modernist Period
  1914-1940 Georgian Age
  1940-1965 Diminishing Age
1965-Present Post-Modernist Period

 

Source: Holman, C.Hugh, and William Harmon. A Handbook to Literature. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

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Romantic Period in English Literature Romanticism
Age of the Romantic Movement  
Early Victorian Age Victorian

 

 

 

 

 

 

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