British Literature

By mrpookenstein
  • Apr 30, 731

    Bede Completes A History of the English Church and People

  • Apr 29, 750

    Beowulf Written

    Beowulf Written
  • Apr 30, 1375

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written
  • Apr 30, 1386

    Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales

    Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales
  • Apr 30, 1470

    Thomas Malory writes Morte d'Arthur

    Thomas Malory writes Morte d'Arthur
  • Period: Jan 1, 1485 to

    English Renaissance

  • May 6, 1516

    Thomas More Publishes Utopia

  • May 6, 1549

    The Book of Common Prayer Issued

  • May 6, 1582

    Sir Phillip Sidney Writes Astrophel And Stella

  • Edmund Spenser Publishes The Faerie Queene Part 1

    Edmund Spenser Publishes The Faerie Queene Part 1

  • Shakespere writes Romeo and Juliet

  • The Faerie Queene Published in its entirety

  • King Hames Bible published

  • Francis Bacon Publishes Novum Organum

  • Period: to

    17th and 18th centuries

  • Sir Francis Bacon publishes The New Atlantis

  • John Donne's Songs and Sonnets is published

  • John Milton Publishes Lycidas

  • John Suckling publishes Fragments Aurea

  • Robert Herrick Publishes Hesperides

    Robert Herrick Publishes Hesperides

  • Richard Lovelace Publishes Lucasta

  • Samuel Pepsys begins Diary

  • john Milton's Paradise Lost Published

  • John Dryden publishes An Essay onm Poesy

  • John Locke Publishes His Two Treatises of Government

  • Alexander Pope publishes The Rape Of the Lock

  • Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe

  • Jonathan Swift publishes Gullivers travels

  • Thomas Grey publishes Elegy in a Country Churchyard

  • Samuel Johnson pblishes Dictionary of the English Language

  • James Boswell publishes The Life of Samuel Johnson

  • Period: to

    The Romantic Period

  • Willian Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • Byron publishes Childe Harolds Pilgrimage

  • Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prerjudice

  • Mar Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein

  • Percy Bysshe Shelly writes Ode to the West Wind

  • John Keats publishes Odwe to a Grecian Urn

    John Keats publishes Odwe to a Grecian Urn
  • Period: to

    Victorian Period

  • William Wordsworth becomes poet laureate

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes Sonnets from the Portuguese

  • Lewis Carrol publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Lewis Carrol publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • Robert Browning publishes The Ring and the Book

  • Tjomas Hardy publishes Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  • Period: to

    Modern Period

  • Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness

  • T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land

  • James Joyce publishes Ulysses

  • George Orwell publishes Animal Farm

    George Orwell publishes Animal Farm

  • Dorisa Lessing published The Golden Notebook

  • Nadine Gordimer wins Nobel Prize for Literature

  • Saxon Monks copy old english poems into the Exeter Book

    Saxon Monks copy old english poems into the Exeter Book
  • Period: to Dec 31, 1485

    Old English