Different ages of English Literature

-:Chronology:-

• 0540 - 1066 = Old English Period
• 1066 - 1400 = Middle English Period
• 1400 - 1558 = The Dark Age [For Plague]
• 1558 - 1603 = The Elizabethan Age
• 1603 - 1625 = The Jacobean Age
• 1625 - 1649 = The Caroline Age
• 1649 - 1660 = The Commonwealth Period [Latin: The Puritanic Interregnnm]
• 1660 - 1700 = The Restoration
• 1700 - 1798 = The 18th Century/ Augustan Period/ Neo-Classical period
• 1798 - 1832 = The Romantic Revival
• 1832 - 1901 = The Victorian Age
• 1901 - 1945 = The Modern Age
• 1945 - Onwards = Post Modern Age

Events of 1066: This is a reference to the battle of Hastings in which Harold II, King of England, was defeated and killed by William,  Duke of Normandy. The effect of this Norman Conquest was fell in all spheres of life in England, particularly in the development of English language and literature.