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May 3, 731
Bede completes "A History of the English Church and People"
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Apr 24, 750
Surviving version of "Beowulf" composed
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Apr 24, 1375
Surviving version of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" written
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Apr 24, 1386
Chaucer begins writing "The Canterbury Tales"
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Apr 24, 1470
Thomas Malory writes "Morte d'Arthur"
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Period: Apr 25, 1485 to
The English Renaissance Period
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Apr 24, 1516
Thomas More publishes "Utopia"
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Apr 24, 1549
The " Book of Common Prayer" issued
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Apr 24, 1564
William Shakespeare born
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Apr 24, 1582
Sir Philip Sidney writes "Astrophel and Stella"
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Shakespeare writes "Romeo and Juliet"
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"The Faerie Queen" by Edmund Spenser is published in its entirety
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King James Bible published.
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Period: to
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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John Donne's "Songs and Sonnets" published.
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John Milton's "Paradise Lost" published.
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Daniel Defoe publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
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Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"
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Thomas Gray publishes "Elegy in a Country Churchyard"
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Period: to
The Romantic Period
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Jane Austen publishes "Pride and Prejudice"
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus"
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Percy Shelley writes "Ode to the West Wind"
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John Keats publishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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Period: to
The Victorian Period
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William Wordsworth becomes poet laureate
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Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
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First book (A-ant) of "Oxford English Dictionary" published
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First Sherlock Holmes tale published
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Period: to
The Modern and Postmodern Periods
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Joseph Conrad publishes "Heart of Darkness"
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T.S. Eliot publishes "The Waste Land"
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George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm"
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Saxon monks copy Old English poems into "The Exeter Book"
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Period: to Apr 24, 1485
The Old English and Medieval Periods (449-1485)
