Periods of English Literature
PERIODS OF BRITISH LITERATURE
450-1066 : Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period
1066-1500 : Middle English Period
1500-1660 : The Renaissance
?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
1901-1914 : The Edwardian Period
1910-1936 : The Georgian Period
1914-1945 : The Modern Period
1945-present : Postmodern Period
- Romantic Writing
The Romantic Age (1789-1832) ? Romanticism as a period and a concept: ? W. Wordsworth and S. Coleridge published a book of poems ?Lyrical Ballads) 1789. That is the beginning of the Romantic Age. The end of the romantic age is with the death of Sir Walter...
- The Nineteenth-century Novel
The Early Nineteenth-Century English Novel Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Edgeworth, Maria 1768-1849. . Scott, Sir Walter 1771-1832 Shelley, Mary 1797-1851 The Romantic Novel and the Gothic Novel Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. . Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein....
- A Chronology Of The English Language
449 Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain begins 450-480 Earliest Old English inscriptions date from this period 597 St. Augustine arrives in Britain. Beginning of Christian conversion 731 The Venerable Bede publishes The Ecclesiastical History of the English...
- Authors Index Of English Literature
A Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926) Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848) Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Mark Akenside (1721-1770) Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895) ANONYMOUS (1100-1945) Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Jane Austen (1775-1817)...
- A Brief History Of English Literature
Old English English, as we know it, descends from the language spoken by the north Germanic tribes who settled in England from the 5th century A.D. onwards. They had no writing (except runes, used as charms) until they learned the Latin alphabet from...