British Literature By dcraft12 May 3, 731 Bede completes "A History of the English Church and People" Apr 24, 750 Surviving version of "Beowulf" composed Apr 24, 1375 Surviving version of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" written Apr 24, 1386 Chaucer begins writing "The Canterbury Tales" Apr 24, 1470 Thomas Malory writes "Morte d'Arthur" Period: Apr 25, 1485 to Apr 25, 1625 The English Renaissance Period Apr 24, 1516 Thomas More publishes "Utopia" Apr 24, 1549 The " Book of Common Prayer" issued Apr 24, 1564 William Shakespeare born Apr 24, 1582 Sir Philip Sidney writes "Astrophel and Stella" Apr 24, 1594 Shakespeare writes "Romeo and Juliet" Apr 24, 1609 "The Faerie Queen" by Edmund Spenser is published in its entirety Apr 24, 1611 King James Bible published. Period: Apr 25, 1625 to Apr 25, 1798 The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Apr 24, 1633 John Donne's "Songs and Sonnets" published. Apr 24, 1667 John Milton's "Paradise Lost" published. Apr 24, 1719 Daniel Defoe publishes "Robinson Crusoe" Apr 24, 1726 Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels" Apr 24, 1751 Thomas Gray publishes "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" Period: Apr 25, 1798 to Apr 25, 1832 The Romantic Period Apr 24, 1813 Jane Austen publishes "Pride and Prejudice" Apr 24, 1818 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus" Apr 24, 1819 Percy Shelley writes "Ode to the West Wind" Apr 24, 1820 John Keats publishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Period: Apr 25, 1833 to Apr 25, 1901 The Victorian Period Apr 24, 1843 William Wordsworth becomes poet laureate Apr 24, 1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" Apr 24, 1884 First book (A-ant) of "Oxford English Dictionary" published Apr 24, 1887 First Sherlock Holmes tale published Period: Apr 25, 1901 to Apr 25, 2012 The Modern and Postmodern Periods Apr 24, 1914 Joseph Conrad publishes "Heart of Darkness" Apr 25, 1922 T.S. Eliot publishes "The Waste Land" Apr 25, 1945 George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm" Mar 2, 2022 Saxon monks copy Old English poems into "The Exeter Book" Period: Mar 2, 2022 to Apr 24, 1485 The Old English and Medieval Periods (449-1485)
