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This period is known as the begining of the English literary production. After the Western Roman empire disolution, many german and anglosaxon tribes became complex kingdoms, each one with a proper language and culture. The British Islands were exposed to this process, where the English language was pedominant.
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Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
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Geoffrey Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death
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Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism
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With the ascent of Elizabeth I to the English throne, England became a powerful and influential kingdom. The royal court met the theatrical plays and this period was famous because the appearing of one of the writers with the highest reknown: William Shakespeare
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Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
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After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III
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George Herbert's only volume of poems, The Temple, is published posthumously
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This period produced authors who wrote about life, love and nature. Many of these authors found the world to be disappointing and had a melancholy bent to their works. Great novels were writen in this time
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Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry
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Samuel Johnson publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English Language
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A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica
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With the Victorian Age start and the Industrial Revolution, the English influence was spreading all over the world, the English Empire was one of the gratest on the Earth and their people was involved in a new way of live in the great industrial cities.
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24-year-old Charles Dickens begins monthly publication of his first work of fiction, Pickwick Papers (published in book form in 1837)
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Alfred Tennyson's elegy for a friend, In Memoriam, captures perfectly the Victorian mood of heightened sensibility
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Robert Louis Stevenson introduces a dual personality in his novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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A new century is ahead, and the English people is about to live huge historical moments and the costant pression that suffer a worldwide powerful nation. The people is afraid and to expectation of this new century.
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The English writer Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out
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In George Orwell's fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin
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Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
