English literature

History of English Literature - English Literature Oscar Alejandro Rodriguez Osorio

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  • 731 BCE

    Origins of English Literature

    Origins of English Literature
    1. Bede, history about english church and people.
  • 1066

    410 AD 1066

    410 AD 1066
    English literature or old english began 410 AD and ended in 1066.
  • 1500

    Middle English Period

    Middle English Period
    Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and Robert Henryson,
  • 1510

    authors

    authors
    From 1510 to 1524, we can find several authors of poems and tales.
  • 1517

    protestant Reformation

    protestant Reformation
    The Medieval Romance , new ideas such as feudalism, spencer, Shakespeare bunyan they took part in the protestant reformation.
    1517-1648
  • 1524

    The Bible was traslated into English

    The Bible was traslated into English
    In 1524 william Tyndale translate the bible into English.
  • 1549

    1549

    1549
    this year was the first version of the English prayer book.
  • Period: to

    16th and 17th centuries

    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.

  • the full version of the bible.

    the full version of the bible.
    In 1604, James I authorized the full version of the bible.

  • 1611

    1611
    In this year is complete the last play of Shakespeare, The tempest.

  • 1616

    1616
    In 1616 William Shakespeare died.

  • 1623

    1623
    thirty-six shakespeare’s plays were published.

  • Authors.

    Authors.
    Famous authors during old English.
    The Canterbury tales, by Chaucer.
    Elizabethan period, William Shakespeare
  • Period: to

    novels and poems

    From 1633 to 1811 there were many authors and writers.

  • 1637

    1637
    In 1637, John Milton wrote Lycidas

  • 1650

    1650
    Anne bradstree.

  • 1678

    John Bunyan, part I of The pilgrim’s progress, it became popular.

  • 1719

    1719
    Daniel Defoe’s Robinson crusoe, first English novel.

  • 1755

    1755
    Samuel Johnson published a magisterial dictionary of English Literature.

  • 18th

    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.

  • 1811

    1811
    Jane Austen published her first work in print, sense and sensibility.

  • 1852

    Peter Mark Roget Published a dictionary of synonyms.

  • Literature

    Literature
    Literature is distinguished when the readers accept that what they are readigs is not literally true, literature is a work of imagination.

  • 19th century

    19th century Romantic Movement was studied in nature and emotion.
    During this period john keats is possibly the famous author in this period.

  • 20th century

    20th century
    The 20th century saw the rise of modernism characterized by style and traditional values. it began around 1930

  • 20th century

    Elizabeth and Robert browning, were ones of the main authors in this century.

  • the postmodernism period 1945

    the postmodernism period 1945
    some famous writers, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively.