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The venerable Bede
Historian and doctor of the Church, creator of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, where he tells part of his life.Part of his writing: And so, very interested in the ecclesiastical history of Brittany, especially in the race of the English, I, Beda, servant of Christ and priest of the monastery of the blessed apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, which It is located in Wearmouth and Jarrow (in Northumbria), with the help of the Lord I have composed. -
800
Beowulf
Is the first great narrative poem in the English language. This heroic account of 3,182 verses is about a man and his people in lands of northern Europe, during the period when the Germanic precursors of the English were still migrating to Britain. -
950
Material of the Eddas
They are mythological, religious, heroic and poetic texts which were used in initiation ceremonies from puberty to adulthood. -
1340
William of Ockham
He was an English Franciscan friar, philosopher and theologian of the Medieval period, he is one of the major figures of late medieval Scholastic thought, and was at the center of the major intellectual and political controversies of the 14th Century. -
1367
William Langland
Presumed author of one of the greatest examples of Middle English alliterative poetry, generally known as Piers Plowman, an allegorical work with a complex variety of religious themes. -
1395
Chaucer
He was a writer, philosopher and diplomat of the fourteenth century in England. He is known as the father of English literature and the greatest author of that language until the birth of Shakespeare's work. -
1524
William Tyndale
He was a scholar and theologian who made one of the first printed translations of the Bible in English. -
1549
The book of Common Prayer
It is the official prayer book of the Church of England and the Anglican churches of other countries. The first full version of the Book of Common Prayer appeared at the time of the Reformation, during the reign of Edward VI, its use became mandatory by Parliament. -
Marlowe's first work
He was Tamburlaine the Great. In this work the author tells the story of the Mongol conqueror of the fourteenth century, was represented by the company of the Admiral’s Men, a company with which it is frequently linked, The work was written in white verse. -
William Shakespeare's first masterpiece
The Life and Death of King Richard III is a tragedy of his tetralogy's latest work on the history of England. -
William Shakespeare's last completed work
It is a romantic tragicomedical work. The work contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of charm on the island. Explore many topics, including magic, betrayal, revenge and family. In Act IV, a wedding mask serves as a game within the play and brings spectacle, allegory and high language. -
John Heminge and Henry Condell
Published the posthumous compilation of Shakespeare's plays known as First Folio and were great authors. -
John Bunyan
It is considered one of the literary classics, having been translated into more than two hundred languages. It consists of two parts — the first was published in 1678 and expanded in 1679, and the second was published in 1684. The protagonist is called Cristiano, and most of the characters are called by their most obvious characteristic. He recounts the journey of Cristiano through his life, seeking salvation. -
Thomas Gray
He was an English preromanticist poet, classical scholar and professor of history at the University of Cambridge, one of the cemetery poets. Considered one of the most learned men of his time. His poetry is not very abundant, but select. His best-known work is Elegy on a Village Cemetery (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 1751), which he is believed to have written in Stoke Poges Cemetery, Buckinghamshire. Other works: The Bard and Progress of poetry. -
Samuel Johnson
He is one of the most important literary figures in England: poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, is considered by many to be the best literary critic in the English language. Johnson was a great talent and prose with a unique style. The dictionary of this essayist, biographer and lexicographer is not only a reference work, but also a prodigious compilation of reflections. -
Thomas Chatterton
Monk and poet of the s. XV, published a collection of archaic poetry In poverty, committed suicide in London at seventeen. It became a symbol for romantics.
Part of his poems:
It was when Albion, smoke sprouting from lethal wound
and high-necked ferrous uprooted their chains,
watched as his remarkable children, around, fell
(more victorious, because they received high honor),
that in a hidden valley of gray serene rocks
two lonely shepherds on steep road were going -
Jane Austen
She was one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel. His first sentence is also one of the most famous in English literature: "It is a worldwide recognized truth that a single man, possessor of a great fortune, needs a wife." -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It was the most famous poem of the romantic poet, and perhaps one of the clearest examples of the political philosophy underlying his literary movement. In addition to the power of its themes and images, the poem is notable for its virtuous diction. The sonnet rhyme scheme is unusual and creates a sinuous and intertwined effect. -
Thomas De Quincey
One of the best prosistas in the English language, owes its universal fame to these Confessions of an English opium dining room. His intention in writing the Confessions was not so much to narrate the effects of this drug as to expose its influences in a mind, his own, which was known privileged, endowed with unusual powers. The text, conceived as an autobiographical essay, a diary of his opium addiction, appeared in 1821 in the magazine London Magazine. -
Charles Dickens
He was an English writer and novelist, one of the most recognized of universal literature, and the most outstanding of the Victorian era. The novel is about Oliver Twist's mother, Agnes Fleming, dies in extreme poverty, giving birth to the child in an English workhouse. The boy spends his first years in an orphanage, and at nine he returns to the workhouse where he was born. From there he is soon expelled for asking to have his food ration increased. -
Robert Browning
He was one of the best English poets of the 19th century and the draftsman of the dramatic monologue technique. He publishes his narrative poem about the terrible revenge of The Pied Piper, part of his writing reads: The City of Hamelin is a small German town located in Brunswick County, on the banks of the Weser River, whose historic center is one of the most beautiful in all of Germany. There are beautiful half-timbered houses where most date back to the Renaissance. -
Gerard Manley Hopkins
He was a Jesuit priest and British poet, he used techniques that he would perfect in later works such as 'The Kestrel', 'The Larged Cage', 'The Oxford of Duns Scotus', and 'Henry Purcell'. His verse structures, which he called sprung rhythm (skipped rhythm) because of his abruptness in contrast to the typical moderation of poetry then, approximates the accents of natural speech. -
William Butler Yeats
He was an Irish poet and playwright. Wrapped in a halo of mysticism, he was one of the most representative figures of the Irish literary revival and one of the founders of the Abbey Theater. The wanderings of Oisin and other poems (The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems) is a collection of Irish poems by the writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), published in 1889. of the author's first published anthology, which features some of WB's best poems Yeats. -
TS Eliot
He was a British-American poet, playwright and literary critic. He represented one of the summits of English-language poetry of the twentieth century. Publish an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections, then a part of the writing: April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers. -
HG Wells
He was a writer, and British novelist. Wells was a prolific author who wrote in various genres, science fiction, dozens of novels, short stories, works of social criticism, satires, biographies and autobiographies.
The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction by British writer H. G. Wells. A long economic slump causes a major war that leaves Europe devastated and threatened by plague. -
Michael Frayn
He was a British writer and playwright, one of the few to be praised by critics in both literary genres alike. He presented his play Copenhagen, which remained two years in cartel in London. The work recreates the meeting that took place in Copenhagen, in 1941, between the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and the German Werner Heisenberg. This one took place during World War 2, while the Germans occupied Denmark.
