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Old English Period or Anglo-Saxon language
The language that was spoken and written in England.
Many of the most basic and common words in use in English today have their roots in Old English, like water, earth, house, food, drink, he, she, you, no, etc. -
600
Medieval theatre
Covers all drama produced in Europe over that thousand-year period and refers to a variety of genres, including liturgical drama, mystery plays, morality plays, farces, and masques. -
975
Beowulf
It is one of the most important works of Old English literature. -
1066
Middle English literature
It was a form of the English language spoken after the Norman conquest (1066) until the late 15th century. -
1250
Vernacular literature
The literature that was written in the vernacular—the speech of the "common people".
The Italian poet Dante Alighieri, in his "De vulgari eloquentia", was possibly the first European writer to argue cogently for the promotion of literature in the vernacular. -
1320
Divine Comedy
Is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature. -
1350
Great Vowel Shift
A series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1350 and the 1600s and 1700s, beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English. -
1387
Geoffrey Chaucer
English poet and author, considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales. -
1387
The Canterbury Tales: 1387-1400
Collections of tales are a favourite literary convention of the 14th century. Boccaccio's Decameron is the best-known example before Chaucer's time, but Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales outshines his predecessors. -
1439
Johannes Gutenberg
Helped to standardize the language with the invention of the printing press -
1500
English Renaissance
It was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. -
1500
English Renaissance
It was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. -
1558
Elizabethan period
IT refers to work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature. (Poetry, Drama) -
William Shakespeare
An English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. 1564 - 1616
Pericles, Prince of Tyre in about 1608 -
Jacobean period (1603–1625)
refers to the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland (1567–1625) -
King Lear, Shakespeare
It tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters, after they declare their love for him in an extremely fawning and obsequious manner. -
John Milton (1608 - 1674)
Aeropagítica, Paradise Lost poem -
King James Bible
known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England -
Augustan literature (1700–1750)
is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s -
Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels: 1719-1726
By Daniel Defoe. -
Age of Sensibility (1750–1798)
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. -
Romanticism (1798–1837)
It was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.
William Blake is considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic age. -
Romantic Novel
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. -
Victorian literature (1837–1901)
It is the literature written in English, during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) (the Victorian era). It was preceded by Romanticism and followed by the Edwardian era (1901–1910). -
Nobel Prize in Literature
is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" -
René François Armand Prudhomme
He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901. -
Modernism (1901–1922)
IT was developed in the early twentieth-century out of a general sense of disillusionment with Victorian era attitudes of certainty, conservatism. Influenced by the ideas of Charles Darwin (1809–1882), Ernst Mach (1838–1916), Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Karl Marx (1818–1883), Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), among others. -
Modernism (1923–1939)
British writers between the World Wars, include the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978), and novelist Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), who was an influential feminist -
Post–modernism (1940–2000)
It is the literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator
