History of English Literature - Timeline

History of English Literature - Timeline

General Era:

  v  Old English Era                      -           450 to 1066

  v  Middle English Era                 -           1066 to 1500

  v  Renaissance Era                      -           1500 to 1660

  v  Neo – Classical Era                 -           1660 to 1798

  v  Romantic Era                          -           1798 to 1850

  v  Victorian Era                           -           1850 to 1900

  v  Modern Era                             -           1901 to 1960

  v  Post Modern Era                     -           1960 to present

           Literary Ages:

  µ  The Age of Chaucer                -           1340 to 1400

  µ  15^th Century and Renaissance -           1400 to 1557

  µ  The Age of Shakespeare         -           1558 to 1625

  µ  The Age of Milton                  -           1625 to 1660

  µ  The Age of Dryden                 -           1660 to 1700

  µ  The Age of Pope                     -           1700 to 1745

(Or) The Age of Sensibility

  µ  The Age of Dr.Johnson           -           1745 to 1798

(Or) The Age of Transition

(Or) Pre – Romantic Period

  µ  The Age of Wordsworth         -           1798 to 1832  

(Or) The Renaissance of Wonder

(Or) Romantic Age

  µ  The Age of Tennyson             -           1832 to 1887

  µ  The Age of Hardy                   -           1887 to 1928

Historic Period:

  |  Anglo – Saxon Period           -           450 to 1066

  |  Anglo – Norman Period       -           1066 to 1340

  |  The Age of Chaucer                         -           1340 to 1400

§  Edward III      (1327 to 1377)

§  Richard II       (1377 to 1413)

§  Henry IV         (1399 to 1413)

  |  15^th Century (1400 to 1500)

§  Henry V          (1413 to 1422)

§  Henry VI         (1422 to 1461)

§  Edward IV      (1461 to 1483)

§  Edward V       (1483 to 1483)

§  Richard III      (1483 to 1485)

§  Henry VII       (1485 to 1509)

  |  Tudor Period (1500 to 1558)

§  Henry VIII      (1509 to 1547)

§  Edward VI      (1547 to 1553)

§  Mary Tudor     (1553 to 1558)

  |  The Elizabethan Age (1558 to 1603)

§  Queen Elizabeth (1558 to 1603)

  |  Jacobean Period (1603 to 1625)

§  James I (1603 to 1625)

  |  Caroline Period (1603 to 1649)

§  Charles I (1625 to 1649)

  |  Commonwealth Period (1649 to 1660)

(Or) Puritan Period

§  Rule of Rump (1649 to 1653)

§  Oliver Cromwell (1653 to 1658)

§  Richard Cromwell (1658 to 1660)

  |  Restoration Period (1660 to 1700)

§  Charles II (1660 to 1685)

§  James II (1685 to 1688)

§  William and Mary (1688 to 1702)

  |  Queen Anne Period (1700 to 1714)

§  Queen Anne (1702 to 1714)

  |  Georgian Period I (1714 to 1830)

§  George I (1714 to 1721)

§  George II (1727 to 1760)

§  George III (1760 to 1820)

§  George IV (1820 to 1830)

§  William IV (1830 to 1837)

  |  Victorian Period (1850 to 1900)

§  Queen Victoria (1837 to 1901)

  |  Edwardian Period (1901 to 1910)

§  Edward VII (1901 to 1910)

  |  Georgian Period II (1910 to 1952)

§  George V (1910 to 1936)

§  George VI (1936 to 1952)

  |  Elizabethan Period II (1953 to present)

§  Queen Elizabeth (1953 to present)