Dall'Old English al Middle English: cicli cavallereschi, nascita del teatro, The Canterbury Tales
Humanism and Renaissance
Golden Age: da Shakespeare a Milton
Restoration and Augustan Age: nascita del giornalismo, del romanzo e della satira
The Romantics: romanzo storico, ballads
Victorian Age, Postvictorians and Aesthetic Movement
Modern and Contemporary Age
Letteratura nordamericana: Colonial Period, American Renaissance, Gilded Age and contemporary Age