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410
Old English
The ancestors of the language were wandering in the forests of
northern Europe -
550
Anglo –Saxons established England
During Roma Empire Latin was not the native
language of the kingdom because people in the country were talking Celtic. -
597
Latin learning
When Anglo‐Saxons became Christian in 597 they learned Latin -
800
Beowulf
The first great work of Germanic literature mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons -
1066
Middle English
Middle English is the name given in historical philology to the various forms that symbolically adopt the English language spoken in England from the end of the 11th century until the end of the 15th century. -
1500
English Renaissance
The increase in the use of the vernacular language (English) as a literary language (formerly Latin and French) was gradually increasing as the printing press -
1524
Bible into English
William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English -
1582
Most important English language writer
William Shakespeare's plays and poems figure prominently in any English literature course. -
Edward Taylor
Taylor was a brilliant poet, minister, teacher who sailed to New England. Taylor was the best‐educated man in the area, and he put his knowledge to use, working as the town minister, doctor, and civic leader. -
Puritan
was a radical faction of Calvinist Protestantism, which originated in the English reformist period that suffered during the reign of Isabel I. -
Restoration age
Es el nombre con el que se conoce a la literatura escrita en inglés durante el periodo conocido como la Restauración inglesa (1660-1689), correspondiente a los últimos años del reinado de la casa de Estuardo en Inglaterra, Escocia, Gales e Irlanda. -
English literature first enters the university
In Scotland, but it does so under the (to us) strange- sounding label of ‘Rhetoric and Belles English Literary Studies: Origins and Nature 17Lettres’. -
Encyclopaedia Britannica
A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica -
Romanticism
El género didáctico pareció renovarse con la aparición del cuadro o artículo de costumbres. La prevalencia del individuo hace que empiecen a ponerse de moda las autobiografías, como las Memorias de ultratumba de François René de Chateaubriand -
Victorian
The Victorian period covers practically from Romanticism until the end of the century and literally represents a change of style in a realistic sense -
Modern Literature
Modernist writers have in common, on the one hand, the rejection of their immediate inheritance and, on the other, of realistic representation. They are characterized by the willingness to play with the reader's expectations, the tendency to "psychoanalyze" their characters through the use of techniques such as the inner monologue, or the love of mixing street slang with a more elaborate language -
Post modern
A discipline difficult to define is at the same time denial and an affirmation of the modernist paradigm. We say this since while refusing the ideas implicit in modernist literature, he has no qualms about continuing the experimentation in terms of narrative structure initiated by modernist writers. -
Contemporary literature
The birth of contemporary literature with the industrial and French revolutions is understood; but it should be clarified that the characteristics of contemporary literature are better understood when world wars arrive, where free speech explodes and the concepts of free press and freedom of expression are established.