Which literary period is known as 'The Age of Pope'?

• The Augustan period/ The Age of Pope:
- The Augustan period/ The Age of Pope হলো Neoclassical period এর একটি যুগ বিভাগ।
- ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে ১৭০০ থেকে ১৭৪৫ সাল পর্যন্ত সময়কাল The Augustan Age নামে পরিচিত।
- এটি আলেকজান্ডার পপ এর সময়কাল হওয়ায় একে The Age of Pope নামেও ডাকা হয়। 

Neoclassical period: 1660-1785
- এই যুগটিকে Pseudo-classical ও বলা হয়।
- They imitated the ancient Greek and Roman literary work but lacked the originality of the writers of that age.

• এই যুগটি 3টি ছোট যুগে বিভক্ত।
যেমন:
1. The Restoration period: 1660-1700.
2. The Augustan period/ The Age of Pope: 1700-1745.
3. The Age of Sensibility or The Age of Johnson: 1745-1785.

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• English Literature Periods and their sub-ages: 
1. The Old English Period (450 -1066)

2. The Middle English Period (Longest period) (1066 -1500) (Longest period).
a) The Anglo-Norman Period,
b) The Age of Chaucer.

3. The Renaissance Period (1500 -1660).
a) Elizabethan Period (Golden age) (1558-1603), 
b) Jacobean Period (1603-1625),
c) Caroline Period (1625-1649) and
d) Commonwealth Period (1649-1660).

4. The Neoclassical Period (1660 -1785).
a) The Restoration Period (1660-1700),
b) The Augustan Period (Age of Pope) (1700-1745) and
c) The Age of Sensibility (Age of Johnson) (1745-1785/1798).

5. The Romantic Period (The shortest period) (1798 -1832).

6. The Victorian Period (1832 -1901).
a) The Pre-Raphaelites (1848-1860),
b) Aestheticism & Decadence (1880-1901),

7. The Modern Period (1901 -1939) .
a) The Edwardian Period (1901-1910),
b) The Georgian Period (1910-1936),
- The Modern English period was one of the most significant literary periods.

8. Present: The Post-Modern Period (1939 - Present).

Source: An ABC of English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman.