BCS Preliminary Preparation Notes #Important periods of English Literature

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