English Literature

  • El venerable Bede
    731

    El venerable Bede

    The Venerable Bede, in his monastery in Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
  • Beowulf
    800

    Beowulf

    The first great work of Germanic literature, mixes Scandinavian legends with England's experience of Anglo and Saxons, poem written in alliterative verse, has 3182 verses.
  • Intermediate English
    1066

    Intermediate English

    The significant literature of this era includes chivalrous romances, allegorical poems, religious works and more secular literature as popular ballads.
  • the beginning of the romances
    1200

    the beginning of the romances

    he begins to write prose and verse, forms of romaticism
  • The arrival of a new literature
    1476

    The arrival of a new literature

    In the year 1476, the printing press arrived in England.
  • Renaissance
    1500

    Renaissance

    The English literary Renaissance consists of four subsets: the Elizabethan, the Jacobean and the Carolina era.
  • The restoration

    The restoration

    The restoration of the monarchy and the triumph of reason and tolerance over religious and political passion, this produced an abundance of prose and poetry and the distinctive comedy of manners known as Restoration comedy.
  • Modern literature

    Modern literature

    It was a predominantly English genre of fiction writing, acquired strength due to increasing industrialization and globalization. The new technology and the two world wars. Modernist fiction spoke of the inner self and consciousness. The modernist writer saw a decline in civilization.
  • Contemporary

    Contemporary

    The main concern of English literature remains the story