Timeline History of English Literature

  • Period: 731 BCE to

    Timeline History of English Literature

  • 735

    The Venerable Bede

    The Venerable Bede
    In his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
  • 800

    Beowulf

    Beowulf
    The first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons