Overview

Chronological Overview

By Enmanuel de Jesus
  • 439

    439 – 1066 The Old English Period

    439 – 1066 The Old English Period
    (731) The veberable Bede
    (975-1025) Beowulf
    (959) The material of the Eddas
  • 1066

    1066 – 1500 The middle English Period

    1066 – 1500 The middle English Period
    1367- Begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman
    1387- Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury tales
    1469- Compilation of Morte d´Artur, an English account of the French tales of king Arthur
  • 1500

    1500 – 1660 The renaissance period

    1500 – 1660 The renaissance period
    1510- Erasmus and Thomas
    1590- English poet Edmund Spenser celebrate the protestant Elizabeth I as the Faerie Queene
    1601- Shakespeare´s central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age

  • 1660 – 1785 The Neoclassical Period

    1660 – 1785 The Neoclassical Period
    1667- Paradise lost is published
    1726- Gulliver´s travel
    1755- Dictionary of the English language

  • 1785 – 1832 The Romantic Period

    1785 – 1832 The Romantic Period
    1792- Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
    1813- Pride and Prejudice.
    1831- Oliver Wendell Holmes ‘poem The Last Leaf.

  • 1832 – 1901 The Victorian Period

    1832 – 1901 The Victorian Period
    1843- Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol.
    1895- The Time Machine.
    1900- Frank Baum introduces children to his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

  • 1901 – 1914 The Edwardian period

    1901 – 1914 The Edwardian period
    1901- The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
    1908- Anne of Green Gables.
    1910- The History of Mr Polly.

  • 1914 – 1936 The Georgia Period

    1914 – 1936 The Georgia Period
    1915- Rupert Brooke poems are published.
    1925- Mrs Dalloway.
    1928- Fourth and final volume of My Life and Loves.

  • 1936 – 1950 The modern Period

    1936 – 1950 The modern Period
    1936- Gone with the Wind.
    1940- For Whom the Bell Tolls.
    1945- Napoleon controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin.

  • 1950 – 2000 The postmodern Period

    1950 – 2000 The postmodern Period
    1950- C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
    1979- autobiographical first novel, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
    1997- J.K. Rowling´s Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone.

  • 2000 – 2021 The Contemporary Period

    2000 – 2021 The Contemporary Period
    2010- Suzanne Collins ‘trilogy, The hunter Games.
    2013- present- Cormoran Strike, a series of crime fiction novels.