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All Literary Ages of Britain

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Old English Period (500 – 1066)

  1. Celts (Arrived C 500 BCE)
    1. Were divided in different tribes: Gales, Britons
    2. Celtic language is the origin of modern Wales.
    3. Gaelic was another dialect of them
  2. Romans (43 CE)
    1. Claudius invaded England and Romans ruled for 300 years nearly.
  3. Anglo Saxons (450 – 600 CE)
    1. Heptarchy (Greek for rule of seven): Kent, Essex, Sussex, Wessex, East, Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria
    2. Danes or Vikins (During 800s) were restricted by Alfred the Great.
    3. Edward the Confessor was the last Saxon King.

Middle English Period 1066 – 1550:

11th Century – 14th Century
    1. Pre-Chaucerian Period/Anglo-Norman Period (1066 – 1340)
    2. The Age of Chaucer (1340 – 1400)
15th Century – 16th Century
    1. Age of Revival (1400 – 1550)

Pre-Modern Age (16th – 20th Century)

16th Century
    1. The Renaissance  (1500 – 1600)
    2. Elizabethan Age (1558 – 1603)
    3. The Age of Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
17th Century
  1. Jacobean Age (1603-1625)
  2. Caroline Age (1625-1649)
  3. Puritan Age / The Age of Milton/ (1649 – 1660)
  4. Restoration Age/ The Age of Dryden (1660 – 1700)
18th Century
  1. Fiest Half: Neo Classical
    1. Augustan Age/  The Age of Pope/ Satire/ Prose & Reason/ Neo-Classical Age/ Early Georgian Age (1700 – 1745)
    2. The Age of Johnson/ Middle Georgian Age (1745 -1798)
  2. Transition to Romanticism
19th Century
    1. The Age of Wordsworth/Romantic Age/ Later Georgian Age/ Age of Revolution (1798 – 1850)
    2. Age of Tennyson (1832-87)
    3. Victorian Age (1837/50 – 1901)

Modern Age (1900 – 2000):

  1. Early Modern Age (1901-1918)
    1. Age of Hardy (1887 – 1928)
  2. Inter-War Period (1918-1939)
  3. Mid 20th Century (1939-Onwards)

Post Modern Age (2000 – Present):

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