English literature

1 Old English literature: c.4501066

2 Middle English literature: 10661500
o 2.1 Medieval theatre
3 English Renaissance: 15001660
o 3.1 Elizabethan and Jacobean period (15581625)
o 3.2 Late Renaissance: 16251660
4 Neo-Classical Period: 16601798
o 4.1 Restoration Age: 16601700
o 4.2 Augustan literature (17001750)
o 4.3 Age of sensibility: 17501798
5 Romanticism (17981837)
o 5.1 Romanticism in America
6 Victorian literature (18371901)
o 6.1 The Victorian novel
6.1.1 American novel (From Romanticism to realism)
6.1.2 Genre fiction
6.1.3 Children's literature
o 6.2 Victorian poetry
6.2.1 American poetry
o 6.3 Victorian drama
7 Twentieth-century English literature
o 7.1 Modernism: 19011922
o 7.2 Modernism in the 1920s and the 1930s
o 7.3 After modernism: 1940 to 2000
7.3.1 The novel
7.3.2 Drama
7.3.3 Poetry
7.3.4 Commonwealth writers
7.3.5 American writers
o 7.4 Genre fiction in the twentieth-century
8 Nobel Prizes in English literature
9 See also
10 Notes
11 References
12 Bibliography
13 External links