English Literature
The Period of English Literature
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE(GEOFFRY CHOUCER) LITERATURE
VOCAB GRAMMAR PROSE POETRY
(DR. SAMUAL JOHSON) (LINDLAY MURRAY) (FRANCIS BACON) (GEOFFRY CHOUCER)
Period Age Fact
0-450 Dark Age
450-1066 Anglo Saxon Age/Old Middle Period Germany, Latin Lang. Beowulf- Epic Poetry
1066-1500 Middle Period or Anglo Norman Age France/Finch/Latin Lang.
1500-1660 The Renaissance Period or Golden Age
Or Age of Shakespeare
(i) 1558-1603 Elizabethans Age or Golden Age Elizabeth 1
(ii) 1603-1625 Jacobean Age or Age of Ben Johnson James 1
(iii) 1625-1649 Caroline Age or Age of Milton Charles 1
(iv) 1649-1660 Common Wealth Period Oliver(1649-58), Cromwell,
Richard Cromwell (1658-59)
1660-1798 The Neo Classical Age or
Age of Alexander Pope
(i) 1660-1700 The Restoration Period Or Age of Dryden Charles 2 (1660-85)
James 2 (1685-88)
Marry 2 (1688-94)
William 3+Marry 2
(House of Orange and Stuart)
(ii) 1700-1745 The Angaston Age or Age of Pope Queen Anne (1702-04)
George 1 (1714-27)
George 2 (1727-60)
(iii) 1745-1798 Age of Sensibility Or Age of George 2 (1727-60)
Dr. Samuel Johnson George 3 (1760-1820)
1798-1832-37 The Romantic Period or William Wordsworth George 3 (1760-1820)
George 4 (1820-30)
William 4 (1830-37)
1837-1901 Victorian Age or Age of A.L. Tennyson Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Pre-Raphaelites (1848-60)
Aestheticism and Decadence
1901-1945 Modern Period or Age of T.S. Eliate Edward 7 (1901-10)
George 5 (1910-36)
Edward 8 (1936)
George 6 (1936-52)
(i) 1901-1914 The Edwardian Period or Age of W.B. Yeats
(ii) 1914-1937 The Georgene Period OR Age of T.S. Eliate
(iii) 1945-Till Now The Post Modern Period or T.S. Eliate George 4 (1936-52)
Queen Elizabethan 2 (1952-Till Now
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