PERIODS OF BRITISH LITERATURE
450-1066 : Old English (or 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 : The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope)
•1745-1785 : The 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 and Decadence