Periods of English Literature

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     For convenience of discussion, historians divide the continuity of English literature into segments of time that are called "periods." The exact number, dates, and names of these periods vary, but the list below conforms to widespread practice.

450-1066 Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period
1066-1500 Middle English Period
1500-1660 The Renaissance (or Early Modern) 
          1558-1603 Elizabethan Age
          1603-1625 Jacobean Age
          1625-1649 Caroline Age
          1649-1660 Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum)
1660-1785 The Neoclassical Period
          1660-1700 The Restoration
          1700-1745 The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope)
          1745-1785 The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson)
1785-1830 The Romantic Period
1832-1901 The Victorian Period
          1848-1860 The Pre-Raphaelites
          1880-1901 Aestheticism and Decadence 
1901-1945 The modern period
          1901-1914 The Edwardian Period
          1914-1939 The Georgian Period
1945-1970 The Postwar Period
1970 -        The Postmodernism Period

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