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Caedmon's Hymn by Caedmon
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The Duke of Normandy wins the Battle of Hastings and becomes King William I of England. His reign brought new changes to the English culture.
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In 1348, the Black Plague killed many and movement in social classes were possible.
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Middle English used the same verse as old Englsih, but it's verses were alliterative. The writing was influenced by Old French. Writings from this timewas focused on the virtues and vices of man.
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"King Horn" The author of this poet is unknown.
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The Confessio Amantis by John Gower
https://www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_ME_Writings.htm -
King Henry V, who reigned between 1413 to 1422, changed England's main language from French to English.
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Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory
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The Renaissance was a time of rebirth that focused on humanistic values.
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Common styles of writing from this time period included the lyric, the elegy, the tragedy, and the pastoral. Some of the poetry was expected to be read along music. Expectations of the style was different depending on the genre of the poem.
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Christopher Columbus sails to the New World.
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Vasco da Gama reached India and opened a sea route between Europe and Asia.
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The Lady of May by Philip Sidney
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The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
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La Arcadia by Lope de Vega
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Writings from this time focused more of social positions. The style from this period lucid and polish. Structure became simple and unified.
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The Neoclassical period relied mostly on classical themes from the Greeks and Romans. It emphasized logic, common sence, properness and adequate performance in society. Grammar and diction become more formalized.
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An Essay upon Projects by Daniel Defoe
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The Act of Settlement of 1700 was passed to prohibit a Catholic from becoming king or queen.
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/fikem/Courses/ENGL%20203/203%20Neoclassical%20Period%20Handout.htm -
Robert Walpole officially is appointed Prime Minister who primarily helped the upper class.
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/engl201/neoclassical.htm -
The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum by Samuel Richardson
http://writershistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=595&Itemid=39 -
The New Dunciad by Alexander Pope
http://writershistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=594&Itemid=39 -
The American Declaration of Independence was created.
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The Society for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade is created in London.
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The Romantic Period revolved around emotion, adventure, and imagination.
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Romantic writings expressed thedesire to be free of the traditional tyranny and emphasisized the rights of the individual. Poems were the most popular form of writing at this time.
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"Frost at Midnight" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
http://www.uh.edu/engines/romanticism/poets.html -
Don Juan by George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Food was a reoccuring theme in this era because of the increased hunger among people. Victorian writings explored the women's morality and sensuality, like in Jane Eyre.
https://sites.google.com/a/cheshire.k12.ct.us/victorian-era/influential-authors/the-bronte-sisters/biography/jane-eyre-analysis/literary-anlysis-of-jane-eyre -
Poems became more realistic and writings were often in the form of novels. Pieces in magazines and newspaper became popular. Dickens took advatage of the newspaper's popularity.
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House of Parliament was built.
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians/timeline.htm -
Victoria becomes Queen of England after William IV dies.
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians/timeline.htm -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva90.html -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva90.html -
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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This was the early modern period where the theatre flourished.
https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/scott.windeatt/assignments/Avgousti_Maria%20Iosifina/AVGOUSTI_CALL1_PROGRAMMING/page3.html -
World War 1 begins.
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Modernism writings have a strong reaction against traditional religious, political, and social values. Writings in this period revovle around the idea that life is random and that there is no absolute truth.
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Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson
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The Easter Uprising led to Irish independence in 1921.
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Death in the Woods by Sherwood Anderson
http://writershistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=36 -
The Stranger by Albert Camus
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This period included writings that were after World War II.
https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/scott.windeatt/assignments/Avgousti_Maria%20Iosifina/AVGOUSTI_CALL1_PROGRAMMING/page3.html -
World War II ends.
http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/timeline6.html -
The United Nations was founded.
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In this time period, novels began using an "unreliable" narrator instead of the traditional narration. Modernism was a time where writers experimented with style and genre.
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Sweet Shop Owner by Graham Swift
http://writershistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=210&Itemid=42 -
The Assignment by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
http://writershistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=191&Itemid=42 -
Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson
http://writershistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=215&Itemid=42 -
Poems in this time period was epics that were memorized and passed down orally. There were written down later on. Most epics praised the doings of heros and reflect the realities of life.
http://www.sjschools.org/cms/lib7/MI01000643/Centricity/Domain/251/PDF_Beowulf_Background_pgs_23-27_b.pdf -
Beowulf. No one knows for sure its original author.
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The Angles and Saxons began to migrate to northern Europe. A part of Britain became Angle-land or England. Here, Anglo-Saxon culture grew and became the foundation of English culture.
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The Vikings began to invade Denmark and Norway. They were cruel and violent people who often burned down villiages and murdered many peasants.
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During the 17th century, the adoption of Christianity influenced literary works.
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Judith; unknown author and date
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