Renaissance
1485-1660
Wit/beauty/truth
Courtly Love
Carpe Diem
Cavalier
1640-1660
King Charles 1
Obsession over beauty
Carpe Diem
Metaphysical
1600-1690
Philosophical
Paradox
Religious
Conceits
Restoration
1660-1689
Charles II
Excess/laxity
Religion/Satire
Romantic
1798-1837
Nature
French Revolution
Individual/emotional
Victorian
1837-1901
Censored/sexually strict
Loss of innocence
Death
Decadent
1880-1890s
Excess/artificiality
Amoral/perversion