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Period: 1387 BCE to 1469
Canterbury tales
Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 canterbury tales, of wich he completes only 24by the time of his death. -
Period: 1375 BCE to 1385
Sir Gawain and theGreen Knight
The courtly poem of a mysterious visitor to the round table of king Arthur. -
Period: 1367 BCE to 1375 BCE
Langland.
A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may de Langlnd, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman. -
Period: 1340 BCE to 1367 BCE
William of Ockham
Advocates paring down arguments to their essentials, an approach later known as Ockham´s Razor. -
Period: 1300 BCE to 1340 BCE
Duns Scotus
Know as the subtle Doctor in medieval times, later provides humanists with the name Dunsman or dunce. -
Period: 950 BCE to 1300 BCE
the material of the Eddas
Taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy. -
Period: 800 BCE to 950 BCE
Beowulf
the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons. -
Period: 731 to 800
Venerable Bede
In is monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people. -
Period: 1385 to 1387 BCE
Troilus and Criseide
His long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy. -
Period: 1469 to 1510
Thomas Malory
In gaol somewhere in England, compiles Morte dÁrthur an English account of the French tales of King Arthur. -
Period: 1510 to 1524
Erasmus and Thomas
More take the Northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism. -
Period: 1549 to 1564
English prayer book.
Book of common prayer, is publisher with text by Thomas Cranmer. -
Period: 1564 to 1567
Marlowe and Shakespeare
Are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by to months. -
Period: 1567 to 1582
The Book of Common Prayer
New testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588. -
Period: 1582 to
William Shakespeare
The 18 year old William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway in Stratford upon avon. -
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Tamburlaine the Great
Introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. -
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Edmund Spenser
Celebrates the potestant Elizabeth I as the Faerie Queene -
Period: to 1611 BCE
Shakespeare
Sonnets written ten years previously, are published. -
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Alexander Pope
Of the look introduces a delicate vein of mock heroic in English poetry. -
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Robinson Crusoe
With is detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel. -
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Samuel Richardsons
Clarissa begins the correspondence that grows into the longest novel in the English Language. -
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Samuel Johnson
Publishes is magisterial dictionary of the English language. -
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Housman
Publishes is firts collection. -
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Virginia Woolf
Publishes the first novel, the Voyage Out. -
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Jhon Fuller and James Fenton
Collaborate in a volume of satirical poems, partingtime hall. -
Period: to
Tom Gunn
The man with night sweats deals openly with AIDS -
Period: to
Sebastian Faulks
Publishes Birdsong, set partly in the trenches of world War I.