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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English: Anglo-Saxon
- The earliest form to speak English in before days Principal authors:
- 731 The venerable Bede - In his monastery at Jarrow completes his history of the English church and people
- 975 - 1025 Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
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Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English Period
It is complecated to identify transition between old English and Modern English
* 1469 Thomas Malory, in gaol somewhere in England, compiles Morte d'Arthur - an Englisg account of the Frenc tales of king Arthur
* 1387 Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death -
Period: 1558 to
The renaissance
This period is a "rebirth" using methods in the middle ages and in this time Europan was changing in their cultural, artistic, political and economic.
* 1510 Eramus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism
* 1590 English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the Protestant Elizabeth I as the faerie Queene -
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The Neoclassical Period
In this time, they used different methods such as classic structures and tried to used 3 part in the literature with the restoration period, the Augustan and Age of Johnson.
* 1667 Paradise Lost is published, earning its author John Milton
* 1726 Jonathan Swift sends his hero on a series of bitterly satirical travels in Gulliver's Travels -
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The Romantic Period
In this period the authors used to many characteristics in their jobs such as idealization fo women, embrace and isolation with melancholy, used to their experience.
* 1729 English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the righrs of Woman
* 1813 Pride and Prejudice, based on a youthful work of 1797 called First Impressions, is the second of Jane Ausen's novels to be published -
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The Victorian Period
The main focus in this period considered British novel in the reign of Queen Victoria
* 1843 Ebenezer Scrooge mends his ways just in time in Charles Dickens'A Christmas Carol
* 1895 H.G. Wells publishes The Time Machine, a story about a Time traveller whose first stop on his journey is the year 802701 -
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The Edwardian Period
In this period their authors used to ideas as metaphorical, symbolically, and experience of nature
* 1901 Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit
* 1908 Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel, Anne of Green Gables, brings her instant fame and fortune -
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The Georgian Period
In this period this literature had created in the monasteries that used to parts of religion as biographies and liturgical biblical
* 1915 Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published a few months after his death in Greece
* 1925 Virginia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs. Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day -
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The Modern Period
In this period tried to used experimentation with other writing techiniques that broke rules to created inner monologue
* 1936 US author Margaret Mitchell publishes her one book, which becomes probably the best-selling novel of all time - Gone with the Wind
* 1940 Ernest Hemingway publishes the novel For Whom the bell Tolls, set in the Spanish Civil War -
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The Post - Modern Period
In this time authors used to create their writers paradox, parody, dark humor in their narratives
* 1950 C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
* 1979 US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -
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The contemporary Period
On this days used to situations in the real context and real time; try to use feelings, emotions and actitudes on the societies have in their enviroment; but always the main characteristic is realistics in their owner jobs
* 2010 Mockingjay completes Suzanne Collin's trilogy, The Hunger Games
* 2013 - Present J.K. Rowling (under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith) stars Cormoran Strike, a series of crime fiction novels