Periods of English literature chart

 

Periods of English literature

1.     Literary period

·         pre Chaucerian period  

Approximate date

·      500.......1340

Historic period

·         Anglo Saxon & Anglo Norman

2.     Literary period

·         The age of Chaucer

Approximate date

·         1340......1400

Historic period

·        Middle Plantagenet period

3.     Literary period

·        From Chaucer to Tottel’s Miscellany mixture of songs and sonnets(book was published in 1557 by Richard Tottel

Approximate date

·     1400.......1557

Historic period

Later Plantagenet period or early Tudor period

4.     Literary period

·        The age of Shakespeare

Approximate date

·        1557......1625

Historic period

 

Renaissance period, Jacobean period, Elizabethan period

5.     Literary period

·        The age of Milton

Approximate date

·        1625.....1660

Historic period

·        The Caroline age (when Charles 1^st was England’s king.

6.     Literary period

·        The age of Dryden

Approximate date

·     1660.....1700

Historic period

·        The age of Restoration

7.     Literary period

·         The age of Pope or the Augustan age

Approximate date

·         1700......1745

Historic period

·         Early  Georgian period

8.     Literary period

·         The age of Johnson

Approximate date

·         1745......1798

Historic period

·         Middle Georgian period

9.     Literary period

·         The age of Wordsworth

Approximate date

·         1798......1832

Historic period

·         Later Georgian period or the age of Revolution

10.           Literary period

·         Age of Tennyson

Approximate date

·         1832....1887

Historic period

·         the Victorian age

11.           Literary period

·         the age of Hardy

Approximate date

·         1887.......1928

Historic period

·         The Modern age

And   after that we have the present age literature.

Conclusion

I have thoroughly provided a chart above related the history or the periods of English literature with proper dates, literary periods and with historic periods as well.