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Period: 450 to 1066
The olg england period 450-1066
Much of the prose during this time was a translation of something else or of another legal, medical, or religious nature. -
700
Caedmon's Hymn poem
Is a short poem in Old English originally composed by Caedmon -
731
The venerable Bede
The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people -
959
Eddas
Eddas material, which takes shape in Iceland, is derived from earlier sources in Norway, Great Britain, and Burgundy -
975
Beowulf
Is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman conquest -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Período del inglés medio (1066-1500)
The literature of this period was dominated by religious writings, which included poetry, theology and the lives of the saints, but secular works and scientific works were also produced. That is, works of all kinds were produced, from the totally sacred to the completely profane. -
1367
Willian Langland
The poem refers to the search for truth through faith, with personifications of consciousness, reward, thought, ingenuity, study and imagination -
1387
100 Caunterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales) is a collection of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer -
1469
Thomas Malory Compiles Morte d'Arthur
The book La mort d'Arthur (sometimes published as La Morte d'Arthur or Morte Darthur in medium French and appeared in its first publication and in some modern editions such as La mort d'Arthur) is Sir Thomas Malory's version of the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, based on several English and French legends. -
Period: 1500 to
The Renaissance (1500-1660)
Recently, critics and literary historians have begun to call this the "Early Modern Age" period, but here we retain the historically familiar term "Renaissance." This period is often subdivided into four parts, including the Elizabethan Age (1558-1603), the Jacobean Age (1603-1625), the Carolina Age (1625-1649), and the Commonwealth Period (1649-1660 -
1510
Erasmus and Thomas
Erasmus and Thomas
Erasmus and thomas more take the northern renaissance in the direction of christian humanism -
Period: 1558 to
Elizabethan period
The Elizabethan era had a prosperous literary production, especially in the field of theater. William Shakespeare was an outstanding author of poetry and plays, surely the most relevant figure that English literature has had in its history. -
Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine the Great
Tamburlaine the Great . Based vaguely on the life of the famous Emperor Timur the Lame, -
Edmund Spencer The Fairy Queen
The Fairy Queen is notable for its form: it is the first work written using the so-called Spenserian stanza and is one of the longest poems in English. It is an allegorical text, written to praise Elizabeth I. To a great extent symbolic, the poem follows the work of various gentlemen in an examination of their various virtues -
Willian Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
it is a tragedy of the English playwright William Shakespeare. It tells the story of two young lovers who, despite the opposition of their rival families, decide to marry clandestinely and live together; However, the pressure of that rivalry and a series of fatalities lead the couple to choose suicide rather than live apart. -
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Neoclassical period (1600-1675)
The neoclassical period is also subdivided into ages, which include The Restoration (1660-1700), The Age of Augustus (1700-1745) and The Age of Sensitivity (1745-1785). -
Shakespear Hamlet
The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (original title in English: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark), or simply Hamlet, is a tragedy of the English playwright William Shakespear -
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The Jacobean Age 1603-1625
The Jacobean Age is named after the reign of James -
Ben Jonson Epicene or the silent woman
Epicene, or The Silent Woman , also known as Epicene , is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Johnson . The play is about a man named Dauphine who creates a plan to get his inheritance from his uncle Morose -
King James Bible (KJB)) The Holy Bible
Is an English translation of the Bible. It was first published in 1611 and has had an enormous impact on subsequent English translations of the biblical text and on English literature in general -
John Webster The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi is a tragedy of Jacobean revenge written by the English playwright
John Webster in 1612-1613 of crisis -
Elizabeth Cary The tragedy of Mariam, the beautiful queen of the Jews
Is the first original work by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English writer to be remembered in a biography, which is included in this edition of the work.
Mariam is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves the desire of today's readers and scholars to know not only how women were portrayed in the early modern period, but also how they perceived their own condition. -
John Donne - meditations in times of crisis
John Donne was fifty-two years old when he wrote this surprisingly beautiful and topical work after a typhus attack,
Donne fell seriously ill in 1623 and, because of the suffering this caused him, he wrote his Meditations -
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Carolina's Age 1625-1649
The turbulent period of the mid-17th century, during the reign of Charles I, the subsequent Commonwealth, and the Protectorate, witnessed the birth of political literature. -
John Milton's Lycidas
John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King -
Andrew Marvell
was born on March 31, 1621 in Winestead-in-Holderness, Yorkshire, and died on August 16, 1678 at his home in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, at the age of 57. -
Thomas Fuller
Aldwinkle St Peter's, Northamptonshire, baptized June 19, 1608 - Covent Garden, London, August 16, 1661) was a historian and member of the Church of England, who became a chaplain to the King of England -
Period: to
Commonwealth Period
was so named for the period between the end of the English Civil War and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy. -
Period: to
The Restoration (1660-1700) Lyric Poetry
The reopening of the theaters gave the opportunity to perform satirical works about the new nobility and the growing bourgeoisie. The mobility of society, which followed the social upheavals of the previous generation, provided the ideas for the creation of the comedy of manners -
Jhon Milton The lost paradise
Is a narrative poem by John Milton (1608-1674), published in 1667. It is considered a classic of English literature and has given rise to a widespread literary topic in world literature -
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress
It is considered one of the most important classic works of theological fiction in the English language, having been translated into more than two hundred languages. It consists of two parts, the first was published in 1678 and expanded in 1679, and the second was published in 1684. -
Aphra Behn Oroonoko
The play, whose protagonist is an enslaved African taken to Suriname during the 1660s, tells of a tragic love affair that was apparently inspired by the author's own travels to the South American colonies -
William Congreve The way of the world
The Way of the World is a play written by English playwright William Congreve. -
Period: to
The Augustan Age 1700-1745
was the time of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, who imitated those early Augustans and even drew parallels between them and the first set. -
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu LETTERS FROM ISTANBUL
The letters that make up this edition are written between 1716-1718, the 18th century has just covered its first decade and the illustration is in a phase of expansion. -
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous works of the famous English writer Daniel Defoe, published in 1719 and considered the first English novel. It is a fictitious autobiography of the main character, an English shipwrecked man who spends 28 years on a remote desert island at the mouth of the Orinoco near the coasts of Trinidad and Venezuela. -
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, in which he mocks the literary sub-genre of the "travel stories" of European society of his time and even human nature. It is Swift's best known work of long storytelling, and a classic of world literature. -
Period: to
The Age of Sensitivity 1745-1785
Ideas such as neoclassicism, a critical and literary mode, and the Enlightenment, a particular worldview shared by many intellectuals, were defended during this period -
Samuel Richardson -Clarissa
Samuel R. publishes his spistolary novel Clarissa the story of a young lady. This is considered the longest novel in the English language. -
Tobias Smollett - The Adventures
Tobias Smollett publishes his novel The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel. -
Laurence Sterne -The Life and Opinions
Laurence Sterne publishes his novel The Life and Opinions of the Gentleman is the most unique and famous of the Irish writer's works -
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson published his magisterial Dictionary of the English Languaje -
Thomas Percy -Reliques de Percy
Reliques de Percy is a collection of ballads and folk songs compiled by Bishop Thomas Percy -
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon publishes this historical work that describes Western civilization, as well as Islamic and Mongolian conquests, from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Constantinople. -
William Cowper -The Diverting History of John Gilpin
John Gilpin publishes The Ballad is about a draper named John Gilpin who rides a runaway horse -
William Beckford.- Vathek
Is a gothic novel written by William Beckford. It was originally written in French in 1782, and later translated into English by the Reverend Samuel Henley. -
Period: to
Romantic period (1785-1832)
The date of the beginning of the romantic period is often debated. Some claim it is 1785, immediately after the Age of Sensibility. Others say it began in 1789 with the beginning of the French Revolution, and others believe that 1798, the year of publication of the book Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is its true beginning. -
Hester Thrale
Public the anecdotes of his potector Samuel Johnson .She was a Welsh newspaper editor, travelled around Europe, wrote and protected artists and writers, such as the English writer Samuel Johnson -
Period: to
The Gothic Era 1786-1800
Outstanding writers of this period include Matthew Lewis, Anne Radcliffe and William Beckford -
Mary Wollstonecraft-Vindication of women's rights
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes one of the first works of feminist literature and philosophy. -
William Blake-The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
He is part of a series of books that he wrote in imitation of biblical prophecy, but with his own interpretation, based on his revolutionary and religious beliefs -
Anne Radcliffe- The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho the gothic novel is a novel written by Ann Radcliffe. It was published in the summer of 1794 by G. G. and J. Robinson of London in 4 volumes. It is the fourth and most famous novel by the author -
Matthew Gregory-The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis publishes his gothic novel The Monk which he wrote before he was twenty years old and took ten weeks to write -
Wordsworth y Samuel Taylor Coleridge-Lyrical Ballads
Willian Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor publish a collection of poems This work is considered to have marked the beginning of Romanticism in the United Kingdom. -
Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice
One of the most famous of Jane Austen's novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel is published. -
Percy Bysshe Shelley-The Mask of Anarchy
Percy Bysshe publishes The Mask of Anarchy, a British political poem written in 1819 in poetry after the Peterloo massacre of that year -
Oliver wendell holmes - Last leaf
Oliver Wendell Homes' poem The Last Leaf is inspired by an aged survivor of the Boston Tea Party -
Period: to
Victorian period (1832-1901)
This period is named after the reign of Queen Victoria, who ascended the throne in 1837, and lasts until her death in 1901. It was a time of great social, religious, intellectual and economic problems, foreshadowed by the passage of the Reform Project, which expanded voting rights. -
Charles Dicken - A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge mends his ways just in time In Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol. -
Christina Rossetti- The Elf Market
The Elf Market is one of the most important poets of the British Victorian period; she belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite movement, along with her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Millais and Hunt. -
George Eliot-Middlemarch
The novel takes place in the fictional town of Middlemarch in the English Midlands during the years 1830-32. The story has several plot lines -
Thomas Hardy -Tess, the d'Urbervilles
It is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored, serialized version published by the British Enlightenment -
Herbert George Wells-The Time Machine
Hg wells publishes The Time Machine, a story about a Tie Traveller whose first stop on his ourney is the year 8027701 -
Bram Stoker-Dracula
Drácula is a novel published in 1897 by the Irish Bram Stoker, who has turned its protagonist into the most famous vampire -
Frank Baum -The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Frank Baum introduces children to Oz, in his book The wonderful Wizard of Oz -
Beatrix Potter -Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale Peter Rabbit -
Period: to
The Edwardian period (1901-1914)
The Edwardian era or the Edwardian period of British history spanned the reign of King Edward VII, from 1901 to 1910, and sometimes extended to the outbreak of World War I. The death of Queen Victoria in January 1901 marked the end of the Victorian era, includes novelists such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling, HG Wells and Henry -
Lucy Maud Montgomery-Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery-Anne of Green Gables, brings her instant fame and fortune. -
HG Wells-The History of Mr Polly
HG Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly , a novel about an escape fromdrab everday existence -
Period: to
Georgian period (1910-1936)
The Georgian period generally refers to the reign of George V (1910-1936), but sometimes it also includes the reigns of the four successive Georges from 1714-1830. Here, we refer to the above description as it applies chronologically and covers, for example, Georgian poets such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, WH Davies and Rupert Brooke. -
Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published after months after his death in Greece. -
Virginia Woolf-Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in wich the action is limited to a single day. -
Frannk Harris -My Life and Loves
Irish author Frank Harris publishes the fourth and final volume of My Life and Loves -
Margaret Mitchell-Gone With the Wind
Us author Margaret Mitchell publishes her one book, wich ecomes probably the best- selling novel of all time -Gone with the Wind -
Period: to
Modern period (1936-1950)
The modern period is traditionally applied to works written after the beginning of World War I. Common characteristics include bold experimentation with theme, style and form, encompassing narrative, verse and drama -
Ernet Hemingway- For Whon the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway publishes the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, set in the Spanish Civil War -
C.S Lewis-Narnia in The Lion
C.S Lewis gives the firts glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -
Period: to
The Postmodern Period (1950-2000)
The postmodern period begins about the time that World War II ended. Many believe it is a direct response to modernism. Some say the period ended about 1990, but it is likely too soon to declare this period closed. Poststructuralist literary theory and criticism developed during this time. Some notable writers of the period include Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks. -
Maya Angelou-I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Us autor Maya Angelou publishes her autobographical first novelI know Why the Caged Bird Sings -
J.K Rowling- Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone
Ashoolboy wizard perfoms his firts tricks in J.K Rowling´s Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone -
Period: to
The comtemporary period (2000present)
Among the most notable writers are Suzanne Collin and Jk Rowling
