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Period: 450 to 1066
OLD ENGLISH
It was the beginning of this period also called Anglo-Saxon. It was in use from about 500 AD to about 1100 AD. It was also the earliest period of English Literature. ANGLO SAXON ENGLANDIt is regarded as beginning with theinvasion of Britain by Germanic tribesin the 5th century AD and lasting untilthe French invasion under William the Conqueror in 1066. -
673
Bede (673–735)
Venerable Bede, en su monasterio en Jarrow, completa su historia de la iglesia y el pueblo ingleses. -
950
Edda en el Diccionario Oxford
El material de las Eddas, tomando forma en Islandia, deriva de fuentes anteriores en Noruega, Gran Bretaña y Borgoña. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
MIDDLE ENGLISH
It was the second period. The Canterbury Tales Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour -
1265
Duns Scotus, Bl Johannes
Duns Scotus, conocido como el Doctor Sutil en la época medieval, más tarde les da a los humanistas el nombre de Dunsman o dunce. -
1340
Ockham's Razor
William of Ockham aboga por reducir los argumentos a sus elementos esenciales, un enfoque más tarde conocido como Ockham's Razor -
1375
El poema cortesano Sir Gawain
El poema cortesano Sir Gawain y el Caballero Verde habla de un misterioso visitante a la mesa redonda del Rey Arturo. -
1469
Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory, en prisión en algún lugar de Inglaterra, compila Morte d'Arthur , un relato en inglés de los cuentos franceses del rey Arturo -
Period: 1500 to
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
1524, William Tyndale studies in the university at witthemberg and planes translate the bible into English. The first version of the English prayer book, or Book of Common Prayer, is published with text by Thomas Cranmer. here we have the Elizabethan period from 1558 to 1603 of queen elizabet. The Jacobean period from 1603 to 1625 of king james I and the Carolina period 1625 to 1653 of king Charles -
1524
Tyndale, William (c.1494–1536)
William Tyndale estudia en la universidad de Wittenberg y planea traducir la Biblia al inglés -
1567
Nuevo Testamento
El Libro de Oración Común y el Nuevo Testamento se publican en galés, seguido de la Biblia completa en 1588. -
1582
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, de 18 años, se casa con Anne Hathaway en Stratford-upon-Avon -
Ricardo III
Después de comienzos tentativos en las tres partes de Enrique VI , Shakespeare logra su primera obra maestra en el escenario con Ricardo III -
James I
James I encarga la versión autorizada de la Biblia, que es completada por cuarenta y siete académicos en siete años -
Shakespeare's sonnets
Shakespeare's sonnets, written ten years previously, are published -
Metaphysical poet
John Donne, England's leading Metaphysical poet, becomes dean of St Paul's -
Anne Bradstreet
The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America -
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PURITAN
It talks when Oliver Carmber to England through 1653. Devoted fisherman Izaak Walton publishes the classic work on the subject, The Compleat Angler. -
Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703) i
On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his diary -
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RESTORATION AGE
When Charles II restored the monarchy. -
Pilgrim's Progress
Part I of The Pilgrim's Progress, written during John Bunyan's two spells in Bedford Gaol, is published and is immediately popular -
John Locke
John Locke publishes his Essay concerning Human Understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience -
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18 TH CENTURY
This particular period is devided in two: the Augustan literature from 1700 to 1750. The Augustan Age begins in English literature, claiming comparison with the equivalent flowering under Augustus Caesar. And the age of sensibility from 1750 to 1798. -
Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
25-year-old George Berkeley attacks Locke in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge -
Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume publishes his Treatise of Human Nature, in which he applies to the human mind the principles of experimental science -
James Woodforde
James Woodforde, an English country parson with a love of food and wine, begins a detailed diary of everyday life -
Edward Gibbon
English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -
William Blake
William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence, a volume of his poems with every page etched and illustrated by himself -
Lyrical Ballads
English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement -
Period: to
ROMANTICISM
When we find romantic country. English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement. Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame. -
Walter Scott
Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame -
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, based on a youthful work of 1797 called First Impressions, is the second of Jane Austen's novels to be published -
William Hazlitt
English author William Hazlitt publishes Table Talk, a two-volume collection that includes most of his best-known essays -
Frances Trollope
English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay -
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VICTORIAN
Alfred Tennyson's elegy for a friend, In Memoriam, captures perfectly the Victorian mood of heightened sensibility. -
Robert Browning
English poet Robert Browning publishes a vivid narrative poem about the terrible revenge of The Pied Piper of Hamelin -
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels, after running a textile factory in Manchester, publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England -
William Makepeace
English author William Makepeace Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts (book form 1848) -
Peter Mark Roget
London physician Peter Mark Roget publishes his dictionary of synonyms, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, the result of 20 years' research -
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a development of the story he had told Alice Liddell three years earlier -
William Gladstone
William Gladstone's pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors, protesting at massacre by the Turks, sells 200,000 copies within a month -
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells publishes his science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds, in which Martians arrive in a rocket to invade earth -
Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit -
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MODERN LITERATURE
American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life -
OSCAR WILDE
Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, a letter of recrimination written in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, is published posthumously -
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA -
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications -
Christopher Isherwood
British author Christopher Isherwood publishes his novel Goodbye to Berlin, based on his own experiences in the city -
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POST MODERNISM
English author Nancy Mitford has her first success with the novel The Pursuit of Love. The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath. -
Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry's verse drama The Lady's Not For Burning engages in high-spirited poetic word play -
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood, is broadcast on BBC radio, with Richard Burton as narrator -
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess publishes A Clockwork Orange, a novel depicting a disturbing and violent near-future -
Stephen Hawking
British physicist Stephen Hawking explains the cosmos for the general reader in A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes -
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen dramatizes the visit of Werner Heisenberg to Niels Bohr in wartime Denmark -
Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials -
Period: to
CONTEMPORARY
It describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. The term "contemporary history" has been in use at least since the early 19th century
