English Literature Timeline from Old English to The Romantic Period

By smatherteach
  • Period: 450 to 1066

    Old English

    Influenced by and Angles and the Saxons. Most literature at this time was oral
  • Beowulf Is Written
    700

    Beowulf Is Written

    http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_vitellius_a_xv_f132r
  • Period: 1066 to 1500

    Middle English

    Huge transition period in language. Much of the writing was religious in nature.
  • Period: 1500 to

    The Renaissance

    Divided into 4 different ages, the Elizabethan Age (1558–1603), the Jacobean Age (1603–1625), the Caroline Age (1625–1649), and the Commonwealth Period (1649–1660)
  • Period: to

    The Neoclassical Period

    Divided into 3 ages, The Restoration (1660–1700), The Augustan Age (1700–1745), and The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785)
  • Hamlet Is Written

    Hamlet Is Written

    https://rogersbooks.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/hamlet-shakespeare/
  • Period: to

    The Romantic Period

    Dates are debated however the Romantic period ended with Queen Victoria.