middle english period
modern literature
old english / anglo-saxon period
the colonial period
the contemporary period
the early national period
the edwardian period
the georgian period
the modern period
the naturalistic period
the neoclassical period - age of sensibility / age of johnson
the neoclassical period - the augustan age / age of pope
the neoclassical period - the restoration
the realistic period
the renaissance - caroline age
the renaissance - commonwealth period / puritan interregnum
the renaissance - elizabethan age
the renaissance - jacobean age
the revolutionary age
the romantic period
the romantic period / age of transcendentalism / american renais
the victorian period
the victorian period - aestheticism and decadence
the victorian period - the pre-raphaelites