English Literature Preodic chart

Literary

Time	English Literature
450-1066	Old English (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   Augustan Age (or Age of Pope)    1745-1785   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 & Decadence
1901-1914	The Edwardian Period
1910-1936	The Georgian Period
1914-1945	The Modern Period
1945-	The Postmodern Period

Periods

Time	American Literary Movements
1607-1776	Puritan / Colonial
1765-1790	Revolutionary /   Age of Reason
1775-1828	Early National Period
1828-1865	American Renaissance
1865-1900	Realism
1900-1914	Naturalistic Period
1914-1939	American Modernist Period 1920s:  Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance 1920s, 1930s : The "Lost Generation"
1939-present	The Contemporary Period 1950s : Beat Writers 1960s & 1970s : Counterculture