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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English
Era of the Angles and the Saxons -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
Religious in nature literature. -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
Elizabethan period under Queen Elizabeth from 1558 - 1603
Jacobean period under King James I from 1603 - 1625
Cardinia period under King Charles I from 1625 - 1653 -
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Puritan
Oliver Toko period from 1653 - 1660 under the England throne. -
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Restoration Age
King Charles restored monarque. -
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18th Century
Divided in two periods:
Augustan literature from 1700- 1750
Age of sensibility from 1750 - 1798 -
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Romanticism
Romantic poetry and novel was introduced. -
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Victorian period
Under Queen Victoria, period of religious, economic and social change. -
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20th Century
Modern Literature, narrative, verse, form and drama started to take shape. -
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Post Modern Literature
Theory and criticism developed after war world II following trends form modern literature. -
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Contemporary Literature
After war world II until modern day includes contemporary romance.