✦ The Modern Period (1901–1939)

Time Frame

• 1901 থেকে 1939 পর্যন্ত সময়কাল।

• শুরু: 1901, Queen Victoria এর মৃত্যু দিয়ে।

• সমাপ্তি: 1939, দ্বিতীয় বিশ্বযুদ্ধ এর সূচনায়।

Characteristics

• Modernism হলো কেবল সাহিত্যিক ঘটনা নয়; এটি অনেক ধরনের European art forms-কে অন্তর্ভুক্ত করে, বিশেষ করে ইংল্যান্ডে।

Sub-Periods

1. The Edwardian Period (1901–1910)

2. The Georgian Period (1910–1939)

✦ English Literature Periods and Their Sub-Ages

1. The Old English Period (450–1066)

2. The Middle English Period (1066–1500)

   • i) The Anglo-Norman Period

   • ii) The Age of Chaucer

3. The Renaissance Period (1500–1660)

   • i) Elizabethan Period (1558–1603)

   • ii) Jacobean Period (1603–1625)

   • iii) Caroline Period (1625–1649)

   • iv) Commonwealth Period (1649–1660)

4. The Neoclassical Period (1660–1785)

   • i) The Restoration Period (1660–1700)

   • ii) The Augustan Period (1700–1745)

   • iii) The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785/1798)

5. The Romantic Period (1798–1832)

6. The Victorian Period (1832–1901)

   • i) The Pre-Raphaelites (1848–1860)

   • ii) Aestheticism & Decadence (1880–1901)

7. The Modern Period (1901–1939)

   • Sub-Periods:

     1. The Edwardian Period (1901–1910)

     2. The Georgian Period (1910–1939)

   • Significance: One of the most important literary periods in English literature.

8. The Post-Modern Period (1939–present)