English literature time period's

                                                                       
ENGLISH LITERATURE TIME PERIOD'S

450-1066
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period

1066-1500
Middle English Period

1500-1660
The Renaissance
   1558-1603    Elizabethan Age
   1603-1625    Jacobean Age
   1625-1649   Caroline Age
   1649-1660   Commonwealth Period
                          (or Puritan Interregnum)

1660-1785
The Neoclassical Period
   1660-1700   The Restoration
   1700-1745   Augustan Age (or Age of Pope)
   1745-1785   Age of Sensibility
                           (or Age of Johnson)

1785-1830
The Romantic Period

1832-1901
The Victorian Period
    1848-1860   The Pre-Raphaelites
    1880-1901    Aestheticism & Decadence

1901-1914
The Edwardian Period

1910-1936
The Georgian Period

1914-1945
The Modern Period

1945-
The Postmodern Period

Periods
Time
American Literary Movements

1607-1776
Puritan / Colonial

1765-1790
Revolutionary /   Age of Reason

1775-1828
Early National Period

1828-1865
American Renaissance

1865-1900
Realism

1900-1914
Naturalistic Period

1914-1939
American Modernist Period
1920s:  Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance
1920s, 1930s : The "Lost Generation"

1939-present
The Contemporary Period
1950s : Beat Writers
1960s & 1970s : Counterculture