| Early Tudor Age (1500-1557) [Renaissance] | Figures: Wyatt & Surrey. Elyot & More
Works: Tottel's Miscellany |
| Elizabethan Age (1558-1603) [Renaissance] | Figures: Sidney, Spencer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson |
| Jacobean Age (1603-1625) [Renaissance] | Figures: Shakespeare, Johnson, Donne
History: King James Translation of the Bible |
| Caroline Age (1625-1642) [Renaissance] | Figures: Same as before |
| Commonwealth (1649-1660) [Renaissance] | Figures: Davenant, Hobbes, Milton, Vaughan, Cowley, Marvell
Works: The Siege of Rhodes, Leviathan |
| Restoration Age (1660-1700) [Neoclassical] | Figures: Dryden, Milton, Locke, Pepys |
| Augustan Age (1750-1798) [Neoclassical] | Figures: Samuel Johnson, Burns, Gray, Copper, Crab
Works: Johnson Biography (Boswell), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon) |
| Age of the Romantic Movement (1798-1832) [Romantic] | Figures: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Keats |
| Early Victorian Age (1832-1870) [Romantic] | Figures: Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Swinburne, Dickens, Thackeray, Brontes, Trollope, Carlyle, Newman, Ruskin |
| Late Victorian Age (1870-1901) [Realistic] | Figures: Eliot, Hardy, Huxley, Spencer, Newman, Stevenson, Kipling |
| Edwardian Age (1901-1914) [Realistic} | Figures: Yeats, Shaw, Galsworthy, Kipling, Hardy, Bennett, Joyce, Conrad |
| Diminishing Age in English Literature (1940-1965) [Modern] | Figures: Beckett, Orwell, Cary, Greene, Auden, Thomas, Eliot |
