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The old period of English or Anglo-Saxon literature, thus known as being written in Old English, begins in the 5th century until the end of the year 1066
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the oldest poet, monk in the double monastery, only one of his poem Hymn of Caedmon remains
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Anonymous Anglo-Saxon epic poem, its exact year is unknown, but because it is written in Anglo-Saxon, it is speculated that it was written in the 7th century
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The Venerable Bede
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he restored english culture, taught that you must learn Old English and then Latin in order to read the texts
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The Middle English period began in 1066 with William's Norman conquest of England until the 15th century, when the printing press was invented.
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The Welsh author Geoffrey of Monmouth, between the years 1130 and 1136, was the first to give an account of the particular royal character in his work Historia Regum Britanniae.
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allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in un-rhymed, alliterative verse divided into sections called passus
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Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, It's 24 Poems Where it tells the story of a pilgrim on a trip from London to Canterbury, one of the literary legacies of the Middle Ages.
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prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table
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In the Renaissance the printing press was introduced, popularizing literature a bit, it was characterized by having 4 periods such as the Elizabethan era, the Jacobean era, the Carolina era and the Commonwealth era.
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Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism
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Elizabethan era was considered the golden age of drama, having emblematic writers such as Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine (1587) - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1610)
Francis Bacon: Speech in praise of knowledge (1592)
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene (1590)
Sir Walter Raleigh: The Discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana (1595)
William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece (1593) romeo and julieth (1597) -
The Jacobin era is the second epoch of the Renaissance, at this time the most important works of Shakespeare are published, and great literary works also marked with a religious theme emerge.
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John Donne: Devotions on Emergent Occasions (1624)
Shakespeare: village (1601); Macbeth, othello (1603)
Michael Drayton: The Harmony of the Church (1592)
John Webster: The White Devil, (1612): The Duchess of Malfi, (1614)
Elizabeth Cary: The Tragedy of Mariam, the Beautiful Queen of the Jews (1613)
Ben Jonson: Every Man Out of His Mood (1599), Cynthia's Feasts (1600), The Poetter (1602).
Lady Mary Wroth: Victory of Love (1620): The Countess of Urania de Montgomery (1621) -
King James Bible translation distributed
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The Carolina era was dominated by growing religious, political, and social discord between the king and his followers. John Milton: Paradise Lost (1667).
John Wilmot: Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery (1670) -
dominated by growing religious, political, and social discord between the king and his followers. John Milton: Paradise Lost (1667).
John Wilmot: Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery (1670) -
The entire seventeenth century is subject to a religious regime, which in turn marks religious texts as contradictory but anonymous for fear of reprimands. John Bunyan: the pilgrim (1675-1684)
John Dryden - Writes satires and plays (1631-1700).
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at this time literature evolves towards more individual and original writings in search of personal identity.
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is a genre of literature and film that covers horror, death, and at times, romance Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1764)
Matthew Lewis: The Monk: A Romance (3 vols, 1796, revised 1798)
Anne Radcliffe: Romance of the Forest (1791). -
with this work the beginning of romanticism is marked William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. (1798)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
Robert Southey: John Bunyan (1830) -
novel of manners written by Jane Austen.
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It is the second romantic movement of the time Leigh Hunt: Three of the Canterbury Tales in The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer (1841)
John Keats: Lamia and other poems (1819)
Percy Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (1819), the tragedy Los Cenci (1819)
lord Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18); Don Juan (1819–24) -
It is a time when the great authors of the Elizabethan and Jacobin era have left and those who had already written their masterpieces, and the new writers had a tendency to moral rectitude and social growth.
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Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-1837)
Oliver Twist (1837-1839)
Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839)
The Antique Shop (1840-1841)
Barnaby Rudge (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843) (Christmas Song or A Christmas Carol)
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844)
Dombey and son (1846-1848)
David Copperfield (1849-1850)
Desolate House (1852-1853)
Hard Times (1854)
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Great Expectations (1860-1861)
Our common friend (1864-1865)
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On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties (1858)
1859 - The Origin of Species (1859)
1868 - Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication (1868)
1871 - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)
1872 - The expression of emotions in anima (1872) -
in 1884 that it began to be published in unbound fascicles as work continued on the project, Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society. In 1895, the title The Oxford English Dictionary was first used unofficially on the covers of the series, In 1933, the title The Oxford English Dictionary fully replaced the former name in all occurrences in its reprinting as twelve volumes with a one-volume supplement.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
The Crime of Lord Arthur Saville and Other Stories (1891)
The happy prince and other tales (1888) -
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-92)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, (1892-93)
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The Time Machine (1895)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
The Invisible Man (1897)
The War of the Worlds (1898) -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
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it is a short period marked by the beginning of the first world war
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Heart of Darkness (1902)
The End of the Tether (1902) -
Shakespearean Tragedy (1904)
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Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
A Room with a View (1908) -
The Old Wives' Tale (1908)
Riceyman Steps (1922) -
It is a time of poets without great English literary influence.
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My Life and Loves, (1922-1927, 1931, 1954, 1963)
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The modern period begins after the First World War and remains until today, it has a bolder style, with a more dramatic narrative, some consider that it is linked to the postmodern period, but others conclude that it is the same but with a different trend after the second world war.
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The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Prince Caspian (1951)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
The Silver Chair (1953)
The Horse and the Boy (1954)
The magician's nephew (1955)
The Last Battle (1956) -
the hobbit (1937)
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The Birthday Party (1958)
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968)
Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966) -
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (June 2003)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (July 2005)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (July 2007)