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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English
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731
The Venerable Bede
In his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people -
Period: 731 to 1300
Beginnings of Poetry
During this time several derivations of poetry emerge, in which they stand out, epic, dramatic and lyrical. -
800
Beowulf
It is an anonymous Anglo-Saxon epic that was written in Old English in alliterative verse -
950
The material of the Eddas
In the Poetic Edda very old poems, of mythological and heroic character, made by an anonymous author towards 1.250, are compiled -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
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1340
Ockham's Razor
In a struggle for simplicity it may come into conflict with other essential elements of the scientific method. The principle of Ockham, can help to make a rational decision between conflicting explanations of the same empirical facts. -
1387
100 Canterbury Tales,
The Canterbury Tales is one of the most important works of English literature, and perhaps the best work of the Middle Ages in England -
1469
Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory of the legends of King Arthur and his knights was made a decade after the author's death in 1471. Malory wrote "The Death of Arthur" during 1469 -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
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1524
Translation of the Bible into English
William Tyndale, translated the Bible for the first time into English. -
Period: 1553 to
Puritan
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1558
Isabel I
Daughter of King Henry VIII who begins the stage of Puritanism -
Richard III
Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III -
Metaphysical poets
The term metaphysical poets was used to describe a group of eighteenth-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of deception and by a greater emphasis on spoken quality than on the lyric of their verse. -
Period: to
Restoration Age
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Paradise Lost
The poet John Milton reached an agreement with the printer Samuel Simmons to publish his epic poem Paradise Lost. Through this publication contract, one of the best works of English literature was printed -
Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko
It makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade. -
Essay concerning Human
John Locke publishes his Essay concerning Human Understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience -
Period: to
18th Century
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Novel Robinson Crusoe
This is one of the most famous works of the famous English writer Daniel Defoe, published in 1719 and considered the first English novel -
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 -
Encyclopaedia Britannica
A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica -
Period: to
Romanticism
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Sense and Sensibility
It is a novel by the British writer Jane Austen published in 1811. It was the first of Austen's novels to be published, under the pseudonym "A Lady" (a lady). -
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man -
Oliver Twist
It is clearly influenced by the picaresque novels of Henry Fielding - above all by his Tom Jones (1749) - and by Tobias Smollett - by Humphry Clinker (1771) -, and the Gothic novel, is framed rather in the genre of the novel Newgate.3 It is the first novel in English language that has a child as protagonist. -
Period: to
Victorian
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engelss perhaps best remembered as co-author, along with Karl Marx, of The Communist Manifesto in 1848. But Engels' vision of capitalism as a justification for the rich to exploit the poor and uneducated had developed in his first book The Condition of the working class in England of 1844. -
Charge of the Light Brigade
Within six weeks of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea, Tennyson publishes a poem finding heroism in the disaster -
Period: to
Modern Literature
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles -
The Waves
Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues -
Period: to
Post Moderns
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Agent 007
James Bond, agent 007, has a licence to kill in Ian Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale -
The Man with Night Sweats
English poet Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats deals openly with AIDS -
Period: to
Contemporary
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J.K. Rowling
She is a writer, British film producer and screenwriter, known for being the author of the Harry Potter book series. -
Paula Hawkins
(The Girl on the Train), which was a great commercial success, it is a mystery drama that deals with topics such as sexist violence or alcohol abuse, was chosen by the BBC as one of the most influential women of 2016 and became part of the BBC 100 women 2016
