English Literature Timeline By Gissela Acosta 440 Old english/Middle english period Period: 1500 to 1620 The Renaissance Period: 1533 to 1613 The Elizabethan period 1750 The Neoclassical pre- Romantic Period 1750 The Puritan Period 1789 The elightenment Period Period: 1820 to 1865 American Romanticism 1865 The Victorian Age 1890 Realism 1901 The Edwardian Period Period: 1910 to 1914 Modernism Period: 1920 to 1930 The Harlem Renaissance 1945 Postmodernism Period: 1978 to 1832 The Romantic Period