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Period: Jan 1, 1066 to Dec 31, 1485
Middle English
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Jan 1, 1343
Geoffery Chaucer's Birth
Although the date of his birth is unknown, he single handedly built the reputation of the English language till Shakespeare came along. English was not scene as a strong language, politically, till this man was able to disect class structure, religion, and gender relations. -
Feb 7, 1478
Sir Thomas More's Birth
Started the political Utopia fascination. -
Period: Dec 31, 1485 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1552
Edmund Spenser's Birth
Writer of one of the most complex alegories in history, the Faerie Queene. -
Nov 30, 1554
Sir Philip Sydney's Birth
Some say that when he died, he wrote a poem with his own blood about the battle and his death. He is also famous for having the largest funeral in Britian's history (that isn't for a royal family). He's the Elizabethan Chuck Norris. -
Feb 26, 1564
Christopher Marlowe's Birth
Half writer, half Queen Elizabeth's superspy (elegidly), many of Shakespeare's plays competed with Marlowe's. He can be considered the only worthy writer to compete with Shakespeare. However, Shakespeare's characters typically have more depth. -
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare's Birth
Born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, this fellow single helped mold the English language you know today. -
Jan 24, 1572
John Donne's Birth
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Jun 11, 1572
Ben Jonson's Birth
Wonderful satirist. Also Shakespeare's contemporary. -
Thomas Hobbes' Birth
" Leviathan (supports strong government to combat egoism, root of all social conflict)"
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John Milton's Birth
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John Locke
Wrote the Treaties of Government. Helped establish political theory. -
Isaac Newton's Birthday
"Principia (The Motion of Bodies, The Motion of Bodies in Resisting Media, The System of the World)"
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Restoration/Augustan/Neo-Classical
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Jonathan Swift's Birth
Gulliver's Travels! Prose satirist. -
Samuel Johnson
Helped write the first Dictionary! Yay. -
William Blake's Birth
He's responsible for your fear when you turn off the lights. He's the cheif started of the Romantic period in Britian and is responsible for making writers realize their imagination is often more powerful than the object they're writing about. -
William Wordsworth's Birth
BFF with Coleridge, Tintern Abbey, Intimations of Immortality, Other great words. -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Birth
When you smoke as much opium as this guy, you'll try and build castle in the sky. -
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Romantic Period
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Percy Bysshe Shelley's Birth
He's responsible for every single poem college students slam their forehead against (in frustration). He also provides one of the most convincing defences of poetry, my personal favorite literary essay. -
John Keats' Birth
Ode to Eternity! If you ever wonder how you compare to the world, Keats can help you feel miniscule. -
Thomas Carlyle's Birth
Quoted "dismal science" in relation to economic theory, Sartor Resartus, more. -
Mary Shelley's Birth
Write the classic, Frankenstein. -
Alfred Lord Tennyson's Birth
Lotus-Eaters, In memoriam, many others. -
Charles Dickens' Birth
He's responsible for our modern conception of Christmas. He's also responsible to extremely racist essasy that helped justify racism toward foreign entities. -
Period: to
Victorian Period
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James Joyces' Birth
He's responsible for the most frustrating and agrivating novels in history. He is also responsible for the most complex, innovative, and influetial modernist novels. Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake, Dubliners, and others will gladly make you rethink your English major. -
Period: to
20th Century
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Bill Watterson's Birth
Bill Watterson is the mastermind cartoonest responsible for Calvin and Hobbes.
