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 |
