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731
Old English
The venerable Bede from his monastery completes his history of the church and the English people -
800
Beowulf
Beowulf is the first great work of Germanic literature that was also published in Old English.
old English -
1300
Middle English
Duns Scotus, known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times. His works include Ordinatio (Opus oxoniense) and Reportata parisiensa (Opus parisiense). Regarding his minor works, the most important is the First Principle Treaty -
1367
Piers Plowman.
A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman -
1387
Canterbury tales
Chaucer writes the Canterbury tales, his great majority in verses -
1510
Renaissance
Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism,
works, the utopia where it is told about an ideal society -
1564
William Shakeaspeare
Marlowe and Shakespeare are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by two months.
William Shakespeare is considered the most important writer in the English language and one of the most famous of the world literature -
John Milton
Paradise Lost is a narrative poem by John Milton (1608-1674), published in 1667. It is considered a classic of English literature -
Restoration age
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, is considered the first English novel, where the protagonist expresses a fictional autobiography -
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift sends his hero on a series of bitterly satirical travels in Gulliver's Travels. -
Romanticism
English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard.
He was an English poet, classical scholar and professor of history at the University of Cambridge, one of the cemetery poets. -
Victorian
Charles Dickens' fir.st novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838).he most outstanding of the Victorian age. -
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde publishes his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in which the ever-youthful hero's portrait grows old and ugly.
Wilde is considered one of the most prominent playwrights of late Victorian London; In addition, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. -
Modern Literature
Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit. she was a writer, illustrator, fabulist of children's literature1 and naturalist -
Post Moderns
Flann O'Brien's
Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman is rejected by numerous publishers before becoming, decades later, his best-known novel -
Ted Hughes's
The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath.
Writer of children's books
