English Literature

ENGLISH LITERATURE TIMELINE

1.Old English literature (500-1100)

2.Middle English period (1100-1485)

3.Elizabethan Literature (1485-1603)

4.The Stuarts and the Puritans (1603-1660)

5.The Restoration Period (1660-1700)

6.The Augustan Age (1700-1750)

7.The Age of Johnson (1750-1784)

8.Romanticism (1784-1832)

9.The Victorian Age (1837-1901)

10.Modern English Literature (1901-1980s)

11.Contemporary English Literature (1980s-now)

Stonehenge: ancient Celtic place of

worship

Julius Caesar,

the conqueror of the British Isles,

55 BC

A Roman road in Britain

Bridge over the Thames in Roman Londinium (model)

Hadrian’s Wall protecting Romans from Picts and Scots