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Period: 500 to 1500
Medieval 500-1500
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800
Beowulf
Old English poem about a warrior Beowulf -
1100
The song of Roland
an epic poem (Chanson de geste) based on the Battle of Roncevaux -
1300
The story of Volsungs
is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells a tragic story -
1387
The Canterbury tales
is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. -
Period: 1500 to
Renaissance
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1524
William Tyndale
studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English -
1567
The Bible in English
The Book of Common Prayer and the New Testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588 -
William Shakespeare
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The Tempest
Shakespeare's last completed play, The Tempest, is performed -
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe, with its detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel -
William Blake
publishes Songs of Innocence, a volume of his poems with every page etched and illustrated by himself -
Period: to
Romantic period
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Charles Dickens
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Period: to
Realism
Literary realism attempts to represent familiar things as they are. -
Mark Twain
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Charles Darwin
puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species -
Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. -
Period: to
Modernism
it's characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. -
Ernest Hemingway
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. -
James Bond, agent 007
Ian Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale -
Period: to
Post Modernism
1965 to today
