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English Literature

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  • 1066 BCE

    Middle English period

    Middle English period
    It is characterized by the great influence of French literature on the forms and themes. From the Norman conquest of England in 1066 until the fourteenth century, the French language replaced the English language in literary compositions, and Latin maintained its status as an erudite language. Among the poems that present a certain formal continuity with respect to ancient English, Piers highlights the labrador of William Langland.
  • 450 BCE

    Old English or Anglo-Saxon

    Old English or Anglo-Saxon
    This period extends from approximately 450 to 1066, the year of the Norman conquest of England. The Germanic tribes of Europe that invaded England in the 5th century, after the Roman defeat, brought with them the Old English or Anglo-Saxon language and also appeared in the epic poem Beowulf, written in the eighth century.
  • 1485

    The Renaissance

    The Renaissance
    Began a golden age of English literature that lasted until 1660. Since the introduction of the printing press, in 1476, the number of readers multiplied. The rise of the middle class, the development of commerce, the spread of education among the laity and not only the clergyThomas Malory, in jail somewhere in England, compiles Morte d'Arthur, an account in English of the French tales of King Arthur.the tragedy as the Elizabethan comedy reached its true flourishing in the work of Shakespeare.

  • The Restoration and the Eighteenth century

    The Restoration and the Eighteenth century
    Literature was characterized by the search for moderation, good taste and simplicity. The great philosophical and political treatises of the time promote rationalism, as shown by the work of John Locke, who defended experience as the exclusive basis of knowledge, or that of David Hume.The diary that Samuel Pepys (pronounced “peeps,” 1633-1703) kept from 1660 to 1669 is the most famous diary written in the English language

  • Romanticism

    Romanticism
    It privileged emotion over reason. The cult of nature, as it is understood today, also characterized romantic literature.Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, masterpieces of English lyric poetry, written and illustrated by William Blake. Songs of Innocence, published in 1789, was Blake's first major "illuminated print" demonstration.

  • The Victorian era

    The Victorian era
    The Victorian era, from the coronation of Queen Victoria, in 1837, until his death in 1901, was a time of social transformations that forced writers to take positions on the most immediate issues. Thus, although romantic forms of expression continued to dominate English literature for almost the entire century.
    Charles Dickens' first novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838)

  • Twentieth century literature

    Twentieth century literature
    Two world wars, a severe economic depression and the austerity of life in Britain that followed the second of these wars, explain the various directions that English literature has followed in the twentieth century. Many of the young writers seriously challenged the traditional values of Western civilization, the perspectives.Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit.