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Periods Of English Literature
The division of a nation's literary history into periods offers a convenient
method for studying authors and movements. Hence most literary histories and
anthologies are arranged by periods. In the case of English literature, there are
almost as many arrangements as there are books on the subject. One plan is to
name a period for its greatest or its most representative author: Age of Chaucer,
Age of Spencer, etc. Another is to coin a descriptive adjective from the name of
the ruler: Elizabethan Period, Jacobean Period, Victorian Period. Or pure
chronology or names of centuries may be preferred: Fifteenth - Century
Literature, Eighteenth - Century Literature, etc. Or descriptive titles designed to
indicate prevailing attitudes or dominant fashions or "schools" of literature may
be used: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Age of Reason. The table that follows
gives the scheme used in The Outline of Literary History.
428 - 1100 Old English Period
1100 - 1350 Anglo-Norman Period
1350 - 1500 Middle English Period
1500 - 1660 Renaissance Period
1550 - 1557 Early Tudor Age
1558 - 1603 Elizabethan Age
1603 - 1625 Jacobean Age
1625 - 1649 Caroline Age
1649 - 1660 Commonwealth Interregnum
1660 - 1798 Neoclassic Period
1660 - 1700 Restoration Age
1700 - 1750 Augustan Age
1750 - 1798 Age of Jonson
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 Modern of Modernist Period
1965 - Post-Modernist of Contemporary Period
The Old English Period
This term is applied to the period in English history and literature between
the invasion of England by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, beginning about 428, and
the establishment of the Norman rule of England around 1100, following the
triumphant Conquest of England by the Norman French under William the
Conqueror. It was an age of intertribal conflict and, in the ninth century, of
Periods Of English Literature
The division of a nation's literary history into periods offers a convenient
method for studying authors and movements. Hence most literary histories and
anthologies are arranged by periods. In the case of English literature, there are
almost as many arrangements as there are books on the subject. One plan is to
name a period for its greatest or its most representative author: Age of Chaucer,
Age of Spencer, etc. Another is to coin a descriptive adjective from the name of
the ruler: Elizabethan Period, Jacobean Period, Victorian Period. Or pure
chronology or names of centuries may be preferred: Fifteenth - Century
Literature, Eighteenth - Century Literature, etc. Or descriptive titles designed to
indicate prevailing attitudes or dominant fashions or "schools" of literature may
be used: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Age of Reason. The table that follows
gives the scheme used in The Outline of Literary History.
428 - 1100 Old English Period
1100 - 1350 Anglo-Norman Period
1350 - 1500 Middle English Period
1500 - 1660 Renaissance Period
1550 - 1557 Early Tudor Age
1558 - 1603 Elizabethan Age
1603 - 1625 Jacobean Age
1625 - 1649 Caroline Age
1649 - 1660 Commonwealth Interregnum
1660 - 1798 Neoclassic Period
1660 - 1700 Restoration Age
1700 - 1750 Augustan Age
1750 - 1798 Age of Jonson
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 Modern of Modernist Period
1965 - Post-Modernist of Contemporary Period
The Old English Period
This term is applied to the period in English history and literature between
the invasion of England by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, beginning about 428, and
the establishment of the Norman rule of England around 1100, following the
triumphant Conquest of England by the Norman French under William the
Conqueror. It was an age of intertribal conflict and, in the ninth century, of
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