British Literature Timeline

  • Burtton Raffel
    Apr 23, 750

    Burtton Raffel

    In c750 Raffel translated the epic poem Beowulf to American language
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
    Apr 18, 1359

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    The Canterburry Tales: The Prologue
  • Period: Apr 23, 1485 to

    The English Renaissance Period

    The Renaissance era encompasses Western music history from 1400 to the begining of the 1600’s. The word "Renaissance" in itself is defined as a "rebirth"or a "reconstruction".
  • Christopher Marlow

    Christopher Marlow

    Christopher Marlowe wrote the proposel to the passionate Shepard
  • Macbeth was wriiten by William Shakespeare

    Macbeth was wriiten by William Shakespeare

    was a lay about a guy who knew what was coming in the future
  • Period: to

    The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

  • John Miton

    John Miton

    John Milton wrote Paradise Lost
  • Johnathan Swift

    Johnathan Swift

    wrote the Modest Proposal
  • Robert Burns

    Robert Burns

    wrote To a Mouse
  • Period: to

    The Romantic Period

    Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1840
  • Samuel Coleridge

    Samuel Coleridge

    Wrote the Rime of Ancient Mariner
  • Period: to

    The Victorian Period

  • Charlotte Bronte

    Charlotte Bronte

    wrote Jane Eyre
  • Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens

    wrote Hard Times
  • Period: to

    The Modern and Postmodern Periods

  • A.E. Houseman

    A.E. Houseman

    To an Athlete Dying Young
  • D.H. Lawerence

    D.H. Lawerence

    wroth The Rocking-Horse Winner
  • Celtic church began

    Celtic church began

    Celtic church began to spread Christianity among people who lived in the Severn Valley.
  • Period: to Apr 18, 1485

    The Old English and Medieval Periods

    Featured the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Margary Kempe, Sir Gawain, Everyman, Julian of Norwich, and many other writers.