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Old English poem about a warrior Beowulf
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an epic poem (Chanson de geste) based on the Battle of Roncevaux
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is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells a tragic story
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is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English
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The Book of Common Prayer and the New Testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588
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Shakespeare's last completed play, The Tempest, is performed
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Robinson Crusoe, with its detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel
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publishes Songs of Innocence, a volume of his poems with every page etched and illustrated by himself
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Literary realism attempts to represent familiar things as they are.
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puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species
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Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing.
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it's characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction.
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He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
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Ian Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale
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1965 to today
