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1367 BCE
Himself Will
Whose name may be langland, begins the epic poem of piers Plowman. -
1340 BCE
Wiiliam of Ockham.
Advocates paring down arguments to their essentials an approach later know as Ockham´s Razor. -
1300 BCE
Duns Scotus
Know has the Subtle doctor in medieval times, later provides humanists with the name Dunsman or Dunce. -
950 BCE
The material of the Eddas.
Taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy. -
800 BCE
Beowulf.
The first great work of germany literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experiencie in England of Angles and Saxons. -
Period: 479 BCE to 15
Pre-modern Literature: Medieval
It covers all the works written in Europe from the year 479 A.D. to the knowledge of the 15th century Florentine Renaissance. -
Period: 15 to 17
Early Modern literature: Renaissance.
It was a cultural movement present throughout Europe.Year Shakespeare. -
731
The Venerable Bede
In is monastery at Jarrow, complete is history of the English church and peolple. -
1510
Erasmus and Thomas.
More take the nosthern renaissance in the direction of Chistian humanism. -
1549
English prayer.
The first version of the English prayer book, of Common prayer, is published with text by Thomas Cramer. -
1549
Of the English prayer book.
Or Book of Common prayer, is plubished with text by Thomas Cranmer. -
Period: 1549 to
Jacobo era literature.
Ben Johson led the Jacobean literature. -
1564
Marlowe and Shakespeare.
Are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by two months. -
1567
The Book of Common prayer.
New testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588. -
1582
William Shakespeare.
The 18 year old William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway in Stratford -upon-Avon. -
Tamburlaine the Great
Introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobeam drama. -
Period: to
Elizabethan literature.
It was characterized by being fruitful in the Chistopher, Marlowe, Thomas Decker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher. -
Edmund Spenser.
Celebrates the protestant Elizabeth I was the Faeire Queene. -
Shakespeare.
After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare archieves his firts masterpiece on stage with Richard III. -
The satirical voice of the English.
Ben Johnson is heard to poerful effect in volpone. -
The Pilgrim´s
Writen during Jhon Bunyan´s two spells in Bedford Gaol. is published and is inmediately popular. -
Period: to
Restoration literature.
Aphra Behn was the first female professional novelist and dramatist. The allegory of John Bunyan, the pilgrim was one of the most read works in this period. -
Augustan.
Age begins in English literature, claiming comparison with the equivalent flowering under Augustus caesar. -
Alexander Pope
Of the lock introduces a delicate vein of mock heroic in English poetry. -
Daniel Defoe´s
Robinson Crusoe, with its detailed realism, can be seen as the firts English novel. -
Period: to
Augustus era literature.
The poetry of these years was very formal. -
Period: to
Victorian Reading
At this time the most important literature was the novel, best know works. -
Fingal.
Supposedly by the medieval poet Ossian, is a forgery in the spirit of the times by James McPherson. -
Edward Gibbon
Sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. -
English poets
Wordsworth and coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the romantic movement. -
Period: to
Romanticismo
Impulse to poets to explore nature as the group of lake poets. -
Walter Scott
Publishes the Lay of the last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame. -
Charles Dickens
Firts novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication of his firts work of fiction, Pickwick Papers. -
William Makepeace
Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts. -
Charles Dickens
Begins the publication in monthly numbers of David Copperfield his own favourite among his novels. -
Charles Darwin
Puts forward the theory of evolution in on the origin of species the result of 20 years, -
William Butler
23 Years old, publishes his firts volume of poems, the Wanderings of Oisin. -
Housman.
Publishes his firts collection. -
John Masefield.
Compares a Dirty British coaster with two romantic boats from the past. -
Henry Williamson
wins a wide readership wid Tarka the ortter a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon. -
Caribbean -born.
Jean Rhys publishes her firs novel, postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford. -
Richard Hughes.
Publishes his firts novel, a High Wind in Jamaica. -
W.H. Audens
Collection of poetry is published with the simple tittle poems. -
Archibald MacLeish
Publishes a narrative epic, conquistador about the conquest of Mexico. -
The Shape of things to come
A novel in wich he accurately predicts a renewal of world war. -
Jhon Maynard.
Defines his economics in the General Theory of employment, interest and Money. -
Horatio Hornblower
features for the first time in the Happy Return. -
Dylan Thomas.
Is broadcast on BBC radio, with Richard Burton has narrator. -
Brendan Behan.
Irish dramatist Brendan Behan play the hostage is produced in Dublin.