|
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. |
|
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 |
