British Literature Timeline

  • Apr 23, 750

    Burtton Raffel

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

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    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.