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604
Saint Agustin von Canterbury
He is the England apostle, is ine of the chistian church father in the british islands. His work is remains in the Cambridge University: "the San Agjustin Gospel" as tool to evangelize the old England -
657
Caedmon´s Hymn
The only work known of Caedmon. It is written in old english and is a religious text. -
680
Caedmon
The oldest english poet. He was born in Northumbria and he died in 680 -
800
Beowulf
Is a epic english anonymous poet. It is conformed by 3182 verses. Its stiry narrates the relation between the english and the danish -
1066
Guillermo the Conqueror
England became part of the Norman kingdom and for thsis reason the old english poetry and the english language spread -
1200
King Arthur
Is an important character of the french and english literature and is represented like the ideal king in the peace and in the war -
1343
Geoffrey Chaucer
He was an english writer and philosopher, was the author of the Canterbury Tales. He is the most important English poet of the Middle Ages and the first to be buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. -
1400
Sir Gawain and the green Knight
the book is about the behavior of knights with religious overtones. It is conformed by four poems -
1476
William Caxton - the print
He introduced the printing press in England and with this, the english literature began to flourish. He was the first printer in the country and printed and edited over a hundred books, most translations of French works -
1542
Thomas Wyatt
He was an English poet and diplomat in the service of King Henry VIII. Introducer of Italian poetic forms in Renaissance England. -
1558
Isabelina age
This historical momento, helps to the flourishing of English literature. Particularly of the dramatic genre -
1564
William Shakespeare
He was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is considered the most important writer in the English language and one of the most famous in world literature. -
Richard Knolles
He was an English historian of the Renaissance.
He is known in English literature for his monumental The Generall Historie of the Turkes. From the First Beginning of that Nation -
Ben Jonson
He was an English Renaissance playwright, poet, and actor. He was an influence on the playwrights and poets of the Jacobina and Carolina eras -
Thomas Hobbes
He was an English philosopher considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy, his best known work is Leviathan, where he laid the foundations of contractualist theory, of great influence in the development of Western political philosophy -
Henry Fielding
He was an English novelist and playwright, known for his satirical and humorous writings. He is considered as the creator of the English novelistic tradition -
Thomas Chatterton
He was a poet of English pre-romanticism. Is considered one the four best English poets of antiquity -
George Eliot
Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pseudonym George Eliot, was a British writer. Her moralizing idealism will later be imitated by George Meredith and the first Thomas Hardy. -
James Joyce
He was an Irish writer.
Joyce is a prominent representative of the avant-garde literary movement called Anglo-Saxon Modernism. -
Henry Williamson
He was an English author who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history and Ruralism. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for his book Tarka the Otter -
Iris Murdoch
She was an Irish writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, in which she combines a rich characterization with lively storylines, generally including themes of a moral or sexual nature -
Michael Frayn
He is a British writer and playwright. He is one of the few to be praised by critics in both literary genres equally. -
Rudyard Kypling
He was a British writer and poet and won the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, making him the first British writer to receive this award -
Julian Barnes
He is a British novelist, winner of the 2011 Booker Prize for The Sense of an End. His novels and short stories have been seen as examples of literary postmodernism. -
Catherine Alliott
She is an English novelist; He was born and raised in Hertfordshire. After graduating from Warwick University, she worked in London as an advertising copywriter
