The name of the period
Time (Chronology)
1.Old English (OE):
1.1 Early OE
1.2 Anglo-Saxon
1.1 5th c.– 7th c.
1.2 7th c.– 11th c.
2. Middle English (ME):
2.1 Early ME
2.2 Classical ME
2.1 11th c.– 14th c.
2.2 14th c. – 15th c.
3. New English (NE):
3.1 Early NE
3.2 The age of normalization and correctness
3.3 Late NE ( Modern English)
3.1 15th c. – mid.17th c.
3.2 mid.17th c. – 18th c.
3.3 the end of the 18th c. till nowadays
450-1066
There Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period
1066-1500
The Middle English Period
1500-1660
1558-1603
1603-1625
1625-1649
1649-1660
The Renaissance
Elizabethan Age
Jacobean Age
Caroline Age
Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum)
1660-1785
1660-1700
1700-1745
1745-1785
The Neoclassical Period
The Restoration
The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope)
The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson)
1785-1830
The Romantic Period
1832-1901
1848-1860
1880-1901
The Victorian Period
The Pre-Raphaelites
Aestheticism and Decadence
1901-1914
The Edwardian Period
1910-1936
The Georgian Period
1914-
1945-
The Modern Period
Postmodern Period