British Literature By mrpookenstein Apr 30, 731 Bede Completes A History of the English Church and People Apr 29, 750 Beowulf Written Apr 30, 1375 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written Apr 30, 1386 Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales Apr 30, 1470 Thomas Malory writes Morte d'Arthur Period: Jan 1, 1485 to Dec 31, 1625 English Renaissance May 6, 1516 Thomas More Publishes Utopia May 6, 1549 The Book of Common Prayer Issued May 6, 1582 Sir Phillip Sidney Writes Astrophel And Stella May 6, 1590 Edmund Spenser Publishes The Faerie Queene Part 1 May 6, 1594 Shakespere writes Romeo and Juliet May 6, 1609 The Faerie Queene Published in its entirety May 6, 1611 King Hames Bible published May 6, 1620 Francis Bacon Publishes Novum Organum Period: Jan 1, 1625 to Dec 31, 1798 17th and 18th centuries May 7, 1627 Sir Francis Bacon publishes The New Atlantis May 7, 1633 John Donne's Songs and Sonnets is published May 7, 1638 John Milton Publishes Lycidas May 7, 1646 John Suckling publishes Fragments Aurea May 7, 1648 Robert Herrick Publishes Hesperides May 7, 1649 Richard Lovelace Publishes Lucasta May 7, 1663 Samuel Pepsys begins Diary May 7, 1667 john Milton's Paradise Lost Published May 7, 1668 John Dryden publishes An Essay onm Poesy May 7, 1690 John Locke Publishes His Two Treatises of Government May 7, 1712 Alexander Pope publishes The Rape Of the Lock May 7, 1719 Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe May 7, 1726 Jonathan Swift publishes Gullivers travels May 7, 1751 Thomas Grey publishes Elegy in a Country Churchyard May 7, 1755 Samuel Johnson pblishes Dictionary of the English Language May 7, 1791 James Boswell publishes The Life of Samuel Johnson Period: Jan 1, 1798 to Dec 31, 1832 The Romantic Period May 7, 1798 Willian Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge May 7, 1812 Byron publishes Childe Harolds Pilgrimage May 7, 1813 Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prerjudice May 7, 1818 Mar Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein May 7, 1819 Percy Bysshe Shelly writes Ode to the West Wind May 7, 1820 John Keats publishes Odwe to a Grecian Urn Period: Jan 1, 1833 to Dec 31, 1901 Victorian Period May 10, 1843 William Wordsworth becomes poet laureate May 10, 1850 Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes Sonnets from the Portuguese May 10, 1865 Lewis Carrol publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland May 10, 1868 Robert Browning publishes The Ring and the Book May 10, 1891 Tjomas Hardy publishes Tess of the d'Urbervilles Period: Jan 1, 1901 to Dec 31, 2012 Modern Period May 10, 1902 Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness May 10, 1922 T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land May 10, 1922 James Joyce publishes Ulysses May 10, 1945 George Orwell publishes Animal Farm May 10, 1962 Dorisa Lessing published The Golden Notebook May 10, 1991 Nadine Gordimer wins Nobel Prize for Literature Mar 2, 2022 Saxon Monks copy old english poems into the Exeter Book Period: Mar 2, 2022 to Dec 31, 1485 Old English
