History of English Literature - English Literature Oscar Alejandro Rodriguez Osorio
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- Bede, history about english church and people.
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English literature or old english began 410 AD and ended in 1066.
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Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and Robert Henryson,
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From 1510 to 1524, we can find several authors of poems and tales.
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The Medieval Romance , new ideas such as feudalism, spencer, Shakespeare bunyan they took part in the protestant reformation.
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In 1524 william Tyndale translate the bible into English.
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this year was the first version of the English prayer book.
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Many great authors were produced during 16th and 17th centuries.
John bunyan, 17th century with pilgrim’s progress. Shakespeare wrote poem in which He characterized in tragedies, comedies and histories. -
In 1604, James I authorized the full version of the bible.
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In this year is complete the last play of Shakespeare, The tempest.
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In 1616 William Shakespeare died.
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thirty-six shakespeare’s plays were published.
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Famous authors during old English.
The Canterbury tales, by Chaucer.
Elizabethan period, William Shakespeare -
From 1633 to 1811 there were many authors and writers.
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In 1637, John Milton wrote Lycidas
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Anne bradstree.
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John Bunyan, part I of The pilgrim’s progress, it became popular.
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Daniel Defoe’s Robinson crusoe, first English novel.
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Samuel Johnson published a magisterial dictionary of English Literature.
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The essay and satire were examples in the novel.
Daniel Defoe, with Robinson crusoe.
Also appeared essays and satires in education, politics science, and technology. -
Jane Austen published her first work in print, sense and sensibility.
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Peter Mark Roget Published a dictionary of synonyms.
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Literature is distinguished when the readers accept that what they are readigs is not literally true, literature is a work of imagination.
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19th century Romantic Movement was studied in nature and emotion.
During this period john keats is possibly the famous author in this period. -
The 20th century saw the rise of modernism characterized by style and traditional values. it began around 1930
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Elizabeth and Robert browning, were ones of the main authors in this century.
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some famous writers, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively.
