Ages in Literature

Though it is very difficult to make a clear division between or among the various ages of English literary history. But for ease, scholars have made a division based on the literary style and subject that were popular in that particular age. So the different ages in literature are as follows-

1. Old English period (Anglo-Saxon) 450-1066

2. Middle English period- 1066-1500

3. The Renaissance period (or Early Modern)- 1500-1600
    It is further divided into:-
         1558-1603 Elizabethan Age
         1603-1625 Jacobean Age
         1625-1649 Caroline Age
         1649-1660 Commonwealth period (or Puritan Interregnum)

4. The Neoclassical Period - 1660-1785
     It is further divided into:-
       1660-1700 The Restoration
       1700-1745 The Augustan Age
       1745-1785 The Age of Sensibility(or Age of Johnson)

5. The Romantic Period- 1785-1832

6. The Victorian Period - 1832-1901
     It is further divided into:-
          1848-1860 The Pre-Raphaelites
          1880-1901 Aestheticism and Decadence

7. The Modern Period - 1901-1945
     It is further divided into:-
             1901-1914 The Edwardian Period
             1914-1939 The Georgian Period

8. The Postwar Period - 1945-1970

9. The Postmodern Period 1970-till today.