History of English Literature – all Ages in detail.

  1. The Old English Period or The Anglo Saxon Period. 450 – 1066
  2. Early and The Middle English Period. 1066 – 1500
    • The Anglo-Norman Period. 1066 – 1340
    • The Age of Chaucer. 1340 – 1400
  3. The Renaissance period. (Elizabethan, Jacobean & Puritan Age) ( 1500 – 1600 )
  4. The Neoclassical Period. 1660 – 1785
  5. The Romantic Period. 1798 – 1832
  6. The Victorian Period. 1832 – 1901
    • The Pre – Raphaelites. 1848 – 1846
    • Aestheticism & Decadence 1880 – 1901
  7. The Modern Period. 1901 – 1939
  8. The Post Modern Period. 1939 …

The history of English literature is very closely related to the history of the English people. lt began with the emergence of the English nation and kept on evolving along with the social development of the nation. In the history of this nation, there had been several religious and political changes. Scientific discoveries and inventions also changed the mode of life from time to time. All these historical changes brought about significant changes in literature. So, in the history of English literature, there were different phases of progress. Each of those phases, known as Age or Period, has been given a particular name, sometimes after the name of the king or queen, sometimes after the name of a great writer, and sometimes according to the spirit of the time. Some of the ages have got more than one name because different historians have given them different names. Similarly, the duration of a particular age also differs according to the choice of the historians. Apart from these, some of the Ages are subdivided into smaller ages.

Though the names and time span of the ages of English literature differ from historian to historian the following list derived from M. H. Abrams is dependable:

সহজে মনে রাখার জন্য একটি টেকনিক:

Old English রা মধ্যযুগে রিনাকে নিয়ে Romantic Victoria পার্ক নির্মাণ করেছিল যেটি এই Modern যুগে Postmordern যুগের সমতুল্য।