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History of English Literature

  • Bede period
    731

    Bede period

    He was a monk that founded the first kind of literature in England.
  • Beowulf
    800

    Beowulf

    An interesting Germanic literature work that tales the achievements of a hero in England.
  • eddas
    950

    eddas

    It is a Nordic material relating to the different Iceland facts, majority of different poems.
  • Duns Scoto
    1300

    Duns Scoto

    This man was recognized by his subtlety way of thinking in his writings.
  • william of ockham
    1340

    william of ockham

    He was a mock philosopher English man that dedicates his whole life to extreme poverty.
  • King Arthur poem green night
    1375

    King Arthur poem green night

    King Arthur was recognized as a character who fought for justice. Furthermore, his plot is about being a good leader at any time.
  • Chaucer
    1387

    Chaucer

    Chaucer was who wrote the Canterbury Tales.
  • thomas malory
    1469

    thomas malory

    This author was who wrote the death of King Arthur.
  • william tyndale
    1524

    william tyndale

    After his studies, he planned to traduce the holy bible into the English language.
  • Shakespeare

    Shakespeare

    This famous author did the prestigious book hamlet.
  • Romantic and gothic literature of the 1800

    Romantic and gothic literature of the 1800

    John Keats by w. Wordsworth, Charles Dickens with his social criticism. Gothic horror and gothic fiction.
  • From the late 1800s to the present

    From the late 1800s to the present

    Detective fiction, sherlock Holmes series. By Arthur Conan Doyle.
  • beginings of modernism

    beginings of modernism

    Modernism and stream of consciousness. James Joice and Virginia Woolf.
  • forties

    forties

    Dystopian novels of George Orwell. J.R.R.Tolkien´s the hobbit and the lord of the rings.
  • Modernism and Post modernism

    Modernism and Post modernism

    J.K. Rowling. Harry potter. One of the most famous author's books.