English literature

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    The venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow

    Bede servant of Christ and priest, send greeting to the well beloved king Beowulf
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    Beowulf, Introducing the epic

    The fisrt great work of English national literature

  • The Augustan age begins English literature

    The Augustan Age begins in English literature, claiming comparison with the equivalent flowering under August Caesar

  • Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, with its detailed realism

    On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values.

  • English poets wordsworth and coleridg, jointly publishes lyrical Ballads

    Willaim wordsworth (1770-1850).Early life influenced by the country side its pleasures and virtues

  • Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame

    Professional and other literary engagements (including the expanded edition of the Minstrelsy) delayed completion of the poem, as did Scott's move to Ashestiel. The Lay was eventually finished in August 1804 and published on January 12, 1805

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias

    About the poem - This is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1818 in the 11 January issue of The Examiner in London. It is frequently anthologised and is probably Shelley's most famous short poem. It was written in competition with his friend Horace Smith, who wrote another sonnet entitled "Ozymandias".

  • English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay

    Frances Milton Trollope (1779 – 1863) was an English novelist and writer whose first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), caused an international sensation upon its publication. Trollope’s more than 100 books include strong social novels,

  • English author William Makepeace Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts (book form 1848)

    Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society.

  • Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, the result of 20 years' research

    On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwinwhich is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.

  • Historical criticism among the ancient

    A Gaelic pressure group. The highland. Association is founded to preserve the indigenous poetry and music of scotland

  • Joseph conrads lord Jim. First published in England in 1900

    Joseph Conrad publishes his novel lord Jim about life of failure and redention in the far east

  • English author Barnes publishes a multi-facete literaturenamed, Flaubelts's parrot

    Julian Patrick Barnes ( born 19 juanuary 1946), is an English writer. Barnes won the man bookses prize for his book the sense of an ending (2011)

  • The amber Spyglass complete philip pulman's trilogy, his dark mterials

    In the epic trilogy his dark materils Philip Pullman. Unlocks the door to worlds parallet to our own.