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THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD (439- 1066)
Completes his history of English church, Venerable Bede -
959
The material of the Eddas
Taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy -
975
Beowulf
First great work of Germanic literature ( legends of Scandinavia) -
Period: 1066 to 1500
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD
Begins the epic poem of
Piers Plowman (1367) -
1367
100 Canterbury Tales
Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme.
Completes only 24 by the time of his death -
1469
Thomas Malory, compiles morte d´Arthur.
An English account of the French tales of king Arthur -
Period: 1500 to
THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
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1510
Erasmus and Thomas More
Take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian Humanism -
Edmund Spencer -English poet
Celebrates the protestant Elizabeth is a The Faerie Queene -
Shakespeare
The central character in Hamlet expresses the ideas of the renaissance. -
Period: to
THE NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD
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John Milton
Paradise lost is published -
Jonathan Swift
Sends his hero on a series of bitterly satirical travels in Gulliver´s Travels -
Samuel Johnson
Publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English language -
Period: to
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Publishes a passionately feminist work -
Jane Austen
Pride and prejudice, based on a Youthful work of 1797. -
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The last leaf poem is inspired by an aged survivor of the Boston Tea party -
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THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
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Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge Mends his ways just in time in Charles Dicken's Christmas Carol -
H.G. Wells
Publishes The time Machine, a story about a time traveller -
Frank Baum
Introduces children to Oz, in his book The Wonderful Wizard of oz. -
Beatrix Potter
Publishes at her own expense The tale of Peter Rabbit -
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THE EDWARDIAN PERIOD
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
The first novel, Anne of Green Gables, bring her instant fame and fortune -
H.G. Wells
Publishes The History of Mr. Polly, a novel about the escape from drab everyday existence -
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THE GEORGIAN PERIOD
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Rupert Brooke
Other poems are published a few months after his death in Greece -
Virginia woolf
Publishes her novel Mrs. Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day -
Frank Harris
Publishes the fourth and final volume of my life and loves -
Margaret Mitchell
Publishes her one book, which becomes the best-selling novel, Gone with the wind -
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THE MODERN PERIOD
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Ernest Hemingway
Publishes the novel For whom the Bell tolls, set in the Spanish Civil war -
George Orwells
Fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin -
C.S. Lewis
A glimpse of Narnia in the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe -
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THE POSTMODERN PERIOD
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Maya Angelou
Publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged bird sings -
J.K. Rowling
A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks, Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone -
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THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD
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Suzanne Collins
The hunger games, trilogy. -
J.K. Rowling
Under a pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, starts Cormoran Strike, a series of crime fiction novels.