English Literature

Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

Period: 450 to 1066

https://englishliteratura.blogspot.com/2016/10/old-english-literature-c4501066.html

Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

Period: 450 to 1066

https://readgreatliterature.com/literature-lists-timelines/old-english-literature-450-1066-reading-list/

The history of the English church and people

731

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ecclesiastical-History-of-the-English-People

The First Great Work of Germanic Literature

800

https://libraryguides.mdc.edu/c.php?g=862745&p=6184796

The Material of the Eddas

950

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Edda

Middle English Period

Period: 1066 to 1500

https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature/articles/middle-english

Middle English Period

Period: 1066 to 1500

https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_middle.html

The Epic Poem of Piers Plowman

1367

https://mypoeticside.com/poets/william-langland-poems

Gawain and The Green Knight

1375

https://www.bl.uk/works/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight

An Epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

1385

http://triggs.djvu.org/djvu-editions.com/CHAUCER/TROILUS/Download.pdf

The Canterbury tales by Chaucer

1387

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales

Thomas Malory - In Gaol Somewhere in England

1469

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Malory

The Renaissance

Period: 1500 to 1660

https://www.livescience.com/55230-renaissance.html

The Renaissance

Period: 1500 to 1660

https://www.britannica.com/art/English-literature/The-Renaissance-period-1550-1660

Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More

1510

https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/who-were-desiderious-erasmus-thomas-more-what-did-326510

The Bible into English by William Tyndale

1524

http://www.william-tyndale.com/tyndale-bible-history.html

Thomas Crammer - The English Prayer Book

1549

Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare

1564

https://medium.com/the-history-buff/christopher-marlowe-and-william-shakespeare-8df7faf48248

First Shakespeare´s piece on Stage

1592

https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/how-were-shakespeares-plays-performed/

The Neoclassical Period

Period: 1600 to 1785

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/neocl.html

The Neoclassical Period

Period: 1600 to 1785

https://study.com/academy/lesson/neoclassical-literature-definition-characteristics-movement.html

James I The authorized version of the Bible

1604

https://www.britannica.com/topic/King-James-Version

William Shakespeare died at his home in Stratford

1616

https://www.britannica.com/story/400th-anniversary-of-shakespeares-death

Paradise Lost by John Milton is published

1667

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15997.Paradise_Lost

The Beginning of the Augustan age in English Literature

1702

http://www.ruthnestvold.com/Augustan.htm

Treatise of human nature

1739

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/

The Romantic Period

Period: 1785 to 1832

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism

The Romantic Period

Period: 1785 to 1832

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism

Age of reason by Thomas Paine

1795

https://www.ushistory.org/Paine/reason/

A Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man - Frankenstein

1818

https://www.bl.uk/people/mary-shelley

Charles Darwin - The theory of evolution

1859

https://www.livescience.com/474-controversy-evolution-works.html

The Jungle Book

1894

https://www.biography.com/writer/rudyard-kipling

In The Economic Consequences of the Peace

1919

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/keynes-predicts-economic-chaos

Men at Arms

1952

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evelyn-Waugh

The cosmos for the general reader in A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes

1988

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time