Periods in British Literature

For a general discussion of the concept of literary periods, see Periodicity.

• Old English Period (~400-1100)
• Middle English Period (1100-1500)
• Renaissance Period (1500-1660)
  • Early Tudor Age (1500-1558)
  • Elizabethan Age (1558-1603)
  • Jacobean Age (1603-1625)
  • Caroline age (1625-1649)
  • Commonwealth Age (1649-1660)
• Neoclassical Period (~1700-1798)
  • Augustan Age (~1700-1750)
  • Restoration Age (1660-1700)
  • Age of Johnson (~1750-1798)
• Romantic Period (1798-1837)
• Victorian Period (1837-1901)
• Edwardian Age (1901-1910)
• Georgian Age (1910-1936)
• Modern Period (1914-1945)
• Postmodern Period (1945-present)