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731
El venerable Bede
The Venerable Bede, in his monastery in Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people -
800
Beowulf
The first great work of Germanic literature, mixes Scandinavian legends with England's experience of Anglo and Saxons, poem written in alliterative verse, has 3182 verses. -
1066
Intermediate English
The significant literature of this era includes chivalrous romances, allegorical poems, religious works and more secular literature as popular ballads. -
1200
the beginning of the romances
he begins to write prose and verse, forms of romaticism -
1476
The arrival of a new literature
In the year 1476, the printing press arrived in England. -
1500
Renaissance
The English literary Renaissance consists of four subsets: the Elizabethan, the Jacobean and the Carolina era. -
The restoration
The restoration of the monarchy and the triumph of reason and tolerance over religious and political passion, this produced an abundance of prose and poetry and the distinctive comedy of manners known as Restoration comedy. -
Modern literature
It was a predominantly English genre of fiction writing, acquired strength due to increasing industrialization and globalization. The new technology and the two world wars. Modernist fiction spoke of the inner self and consciousness. The modernist writer saw a decline in civilization. -
Contemporary
The main concern of English literature remains the story
