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In his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
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During this time several derivations of poetry emerge, in which they stand out, epic, dramatic and lyrical.
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It is an anonymous Anglo-Saxon epic that was written in Old English in alliterative verse
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In the Poetic Edda very old poems, of mythological and heroic character, made by an anonymous author towards 1.250, are compiled
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In a struggle for simplicity it may come into conflict with other essential elements of the scientific method. The principle of Ockham, can help to make a rational decision between conflicting explanations of the same empirical facts.
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The Canterbury Tales is one of the most important works of English literature, and perhaps the best work of the Middle Ages in England
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Thomas Malory of the legends of King Arthur and his knights was made a decade after the author's death in 1471. Malory wrote "The Death of Arthur" during 1469
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William Tyndale, translated the Bible for the first time into English.
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Daughter of King Henry VIII who begins the stage of Puritanism
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Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III
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The term metaphysical poets was used to describe a group of eighteenth-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of deception and by a greater emphasis on spoken quality than on the lyric of their verse.
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The poet John Milton reached an agreement with the printer Samuel Simmons to publish his epic poem Paradise Lost. Through this publication contract, one of the best works of English literature was printed
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It makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade.
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John Locke publishes his Essay concerning Human Understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience
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This is one of the most famous works of the famous English writer Daniel Defoe, published in 1719 and considered the first English novel
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David Hume publishes his Treatise of Human Nature, in which he applies to the human mind the principles of experimental science
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A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica
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It is a novel by the British writer Jane Austen published in 1811. It was the first of Austen's novels to be published, under the pseudonym "A Lady" (a lady).
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Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man
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It is clearly influenced by the picaresque novels of Henry Fielding - above all by his Tom Jones (1749) - and by Tobias Smollett - by Humphry Clinker (1771) -, and the Gothic novel, is framed rather in the genre of the novel Newgate.3 It is the first novel in English language that has a child as protagonist.
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Friedrich Engelss perhaps best remembered as co-author, along with Karl Marx, of The Communist Manifesto in 1848. But Engels' vision of capitalism as a justification for the rich to exploit the poor and uneducated had developed in his first book The Condition of the working class in England of 1844.
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Within six weeks of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea, Tennyson publishes a poem finding heroism in the disaster
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The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues
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James Bond, agent 007, has a licence to kill in Ian Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale
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English poet Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats deals openly with AIDS
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She is a writer, British film producer and screenwriter, known for being the author of the Harry Potter book series.
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(The Girl on the Train), which was a great commercial success, it is a mystery drama that deals with topics such as sexist violence or alcohol abuse, was chosen by the BBC as one of the most influential women of 2016 and became part of the BBC 100 women 2016
