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The venerable Bede from his monastery completes his history of the church and the English people
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Beowulf is the first great work of Germanic literature that was also published in Old English.
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Duns Scotus, known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times. His works include Ordinatio (Opus oxoniense) and Reportata parisiensa (Opus parisiense). Regarding his minor works, the most important is the First Principle Treaty
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A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman
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Chaucer writes the Canterbury tales, his great majority in verses
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Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism,
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Marlowe and Shakespeare are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by two months.
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Paradise Lost is a narrative poem by John Milton (1608-1674), published in 1667. It is considered a classic of English literature
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, is considered the first English novel, where the protagonist expresses a fictional autobiography
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Jonathan Swift sends his hero on a series of bitterly satirical travels in Gulliver's Travels.
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English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard.
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Charles Dickens' fir.st novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838).he most outstanding of the Victorian age.
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Oscar Wilde publishes his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in which the ever-youthful hero's portrait grows old and ugly.
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Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit. she was a writer, illustrator, fabulist of children's literature1 and naturalist
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Flann O'Brien's
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The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath.
Writer of children's books
