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731
Bede completed his Historia ecclesiastica
Bede completed his Historia ecclesiastica Divided into five books. t is the work of a scholar anxious to assess the accuracy of his sources and to record only what I have seen as trustworthy evidence -
800
Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature
Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mixes the legends of Scandinavia with the English experience of the Angles and Saxons -
950
The Eddas
The material of the Eddas, which takes shape in Iceland, is derived from earlier sources in Norway, Great Britain and Burgundy. -
1031
Book of Life' (or Liber Vitae)
The purpose of a 'Book of Life' (or Liber Vitae), was to record the names of members and friends of monasteries or convents: the belief was that these names would also appear in the heavenly book opened on the Day of Judgement. -
1066
Middle English
The more standardized Old English language became fragmented, localized, and was for the most part, being improvised. By the end of the period (about 1470). The english have changes to its grammar, pronunciation, and orthography. -
1300
Duns Scotus
Duns Scotus, known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, later gives the humanists the name of Dunsman or dunce -
1340
William of Ockham
William of Ockham advocates reducing arguments to essentials, a focus later known as Ockham's Razor -
1367
The epic poem by Piers Plowman
A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem by Piers Plowman -
1524
William Tyndale and Bible into English
William Tyndale studies at the University of Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English -
Shakespeare and the ideals of the Renaissance
The central character of Shakespeare in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disappointment of a less confident era -
The sonnets
The sonnets of Shakespeare, written ten years before, are published. -
The Tatler
The Tatler launches a new style of journalism in the cafeterias of Great Britain, followed two years later by the Spectator -
Samuel Richardso
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson begins the correspondence that becomes the longest novel in the English language -
The first two songs are published by the great autobiographical poem of Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which gives him immediate fame.
was a poet of the movement of British romanticism, considered by some one of the greatest poets in the English language and antecedent of the figure of the cursed poet https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron -
First novel in the form of a book
Charles Dickens's first novel, Oliver Twist, begins its monthly publication (in the form of a book, 1838) -
Melodramas of Mrs. Henry Wood
Mrs. Henry Wood publishes her first novel, East Lynne, which becomes the basis of the most popular melodramas of all Victorians. -
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Lord Jim about a life of failure and redemption in the Far East. -
Monologues by Virginia Woolf.
Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues. -
Julian Barnes
English author Julian Barnes publishes a multifaceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot -
Trilogy of novels
Regeneration is the first volume of the trilogy of novels by the English author Pat Barker set during the First World War -
The poems in the Birthday Cards
The poems that make up the Birthday Cards of Ted Hughes describe their relationship with Sylvia Plath -
Amber Spyglass
The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
