Literary Time Periods

Question 1

Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period

Answer 1

428-1066

Question 2

Middle English Period

Answer 2

1066-1485

1100-1350 Anglo-Norman Period 1200-1485 High Middle Ages

Question 3

The Renaissance (Early Modern)

Answer 3

1485-1660

1485-1558 Early Tudor Period
1558-1603 Elizabethan Age
1603-1625 Jacobean Age
1625-1649 Caroline Age
1649-1660 Commonwealth Period (Puritan Interregnum)

Question 4

The Enlightenment (Neoclassical Period)

Answer 4

1660-1785

1660-1700 The Restoration
1700-1745 The Augustan Age
1745-1785 The Age of Sensibility (Age of Johnson)

Question 5

The Romantic Period

Answer 5

1785-1832

Question 6

The Victorian Period

Answer 6

1832-1901

1848-1860 The Pre-Raphaelites
1880-1901 Aestheticism and Decadence

Question 7

The Georgian Period

Answer 7

1910-1936

Question 8

The Modern Period

Answer 8

1914-1939

Question 9

The Postmodern Period

Answer 9

1939-

Question 10

Periods of American Literature

The Colonial Period

Answer 10

1607-1775

1765-1790 The Revolutionary Period