History of English Literature.

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Dipak Kumar Hazra

History of English Literature

Periods/Ages:

1. Old English Period / Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)

2. Middle English Period / Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1550)

(i) Before Chaucer (1066-1350)

(ii) The Age of Chaucer (1350-1400)

(iii) The Age of Revival / Chaucer to Spenser / Early Renaissance (1400-1550)

3. The Renaissance (1550-1660)

(i) The Elizabethan Period (1550-1603)

(ii) The Jacobean Period (1603-1625)

(iii) The Caroline Age (1625-1649)

(iv) The Commonwealth Period / Age of Milton / Puritan Age / Late Renaissance (1649-1660)

4. The Neoclassical Period / The Augustan Age (1660-1750)

(i) The Restoration / Age of Dryden (1660-1700)

(ii) Age of Pope (1700-1745/1750)

5. The Age of Transition / The Age of Sensibility (1740/1745-1790/1800)

6. The Romantic Period / The Return to Nature (1790-1830)

7. Victorian Period (1830-1890/1901)

8. The Modern Period (1890-1945)

(i) The Edwardian Period / Late Victorian Period (1890-1914)

(ii) The Inter-war Years (1914-1945)

9. The Post-Modern Era (1945-Now)

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