BCS Preliminary Preparation Notes #Important_periods_of_English_Literature
#Important_periods_of_English_Literature:
1. The Old English Period: 450-1066
2.The Middle English Period: 1066-1500
a) The Anglo Norman Period: 1066-1340
b) The Age of Chaucer: 1340-1400
c) The Dark/Barren Period: 1400-1485/1500
3 The Renaissance : 1500-1660
a) Preparation for Renaissance: 1500-1558
b) The Elizabethan Period: 1558-1603
c) The Jacobean Period: 1603-1625
d) The Caroline Period: 1625-1649
e) The Commonwealth Period: 1649-1660
4. The Neoclassical Period: 1660-1798
a) The Restoration Period: 1660-1700
b) The Augustan Period: 1700-1745
c) The Age of Sensibility: 1745-1785/1798
5.The Romantic Period: 1798-1832
6. The Victorian Period: 1832-1901
7. The Modern Period: 1901-1939
8. The Post Modern Period: 1939-Present