An Objective Approach to English Literature

1. Early Period (Beginning to 1550) 2. The Renaissance Period (1550 – 1660) 3. The Restoration Period (1660 – 1702) 4. The Neo-Classical Age (1702 – 1740) 5. The Age of Reason (1740 – 1770) 6. Precursors of Romanticism (1770 – 1798) 7. The Romantic Period (1798 – 1832) 8. Mid-Nineteenth Century (1832 – 1875) 9. Later Nineteenth Century (1875 – 1914) 10. The Twentieth Century (1917 – 1963) 11. American Literature 12. Commonwealth Literature 13. Criticism from Beginning to Present 14. Classics of World Literature