History

History of English literature

  • THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD (439- 1066)
    731

    THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD (439- 1066)

    Completes his history of English church, Venerable Bede
  • The material of the Eddas
    959

    The material of the Eddas

    Taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy
  • Beowulf
    975

    Beowulf

    First great work of Germanic literature ( legends of Scandinavia)
  • Period: 1066 to 1500

    THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD

    Begins the epic poem of
    Piers Plowman (1367)
  • 100  Canterbury Tales
    1367

    100 Canterbury Tales

    Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme.
    Completes only 24 by the time of his death
  • Thomas Malory, compiles morte d´Arthur.
    1469

    Thomas Malory, compiles morte d´Arthur.

    An English account of the French tales of king Arthur
  • Period: 1500 to

    THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD

  • Erasmus and Thomas More
    1510

    Erasmus and Thomas More

    Take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian Humanism
  • Edmund Spencer  -English poet

    Edmund Spencer -English poet

    Celebrates the protestant Elizabeth is a The Faerie Queene
  • Shakespeare

    Shakespeare

    The central character in Hamlet expresses the ideas of the renaissance.
  • Period: to

    THE NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD

  • John Milton

    John Milton

    Paradise lost is published
  • Jonathan Swift

    Jonathan Swift

    Sends his hero on a series of bitterly satirical travels in Gulliver´s Travels
  • Samuel Johnson

    Samuel Johnson

    Publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English language
  • Period: to

    THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    Mary Wollstonecraft

    Publishes a passionately feminist work
  • Jane Austen

    Jane Austen

    Pride and prejudice, based on a Youthful work of 1797.
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Oliver Wendell Holmes

    The last leaf poem is inspired by an aged survivor of the Boston Tea party
  • Period: to

    THE VICTORIAN PERIOD

  • Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol

    Ebenezer Scrooge Mends his ways just in time in Charles Dicken's Christmas Carol
  • H.G. Wells

    H.G. Wells

    Publishes The time Machine, a story about a time traveller
  • Frank Baum

    Frank Baum

    Introduces children to Oz, in his book The Wonderful Wizard of oz.
  • Beatrix Potter

    Beatrix Potter

    Publishes at her own expense The tale of Peter Rabbit
  • Period: to

    THE EDWARDIAN PERIOD

  • Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Lucy Maud Montgomery

    The first novel, Anne of Green Gables, bring her instant fame and fortune
  • H.G. Wells

    H.G. Wells

    Publishes The History of Mr. Polly, a novel about the escape from drab everyday existence
  • Period: to

    THE GEORGIAN PERIOD

  • Rupert Brooke

    Rupert Brooke

    Other poems are published a few months after his death in Greece
  • Virginia woolf

    Virginia woolf

    Publishes her novel Mrs. Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day
  • Frank Harris

    Frank Harris

    Publishes the fourth and final volume of my life and loves
  • Margaret Mitchell

    Margaret Mitchell

    Publishes her one book, which becomes the best-selling novel, Gone with the wind
  • Period: to

    THE MODERN PERIOD

  • Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway

    Publishes the novel For whom the Bell tolls, set in the Spanish Civil war
  • George Orwells

    George Orwells

    Fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin
  • C.S. Lewis

    C.S. Lewis

    A glimpse of Narnia in the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • Period: to

    THE POSTMODERN PERIOD

  • Maya Angelou

    Maya Angelou

    Publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged bird sings
  • J.K. Rowling

    J.K. Rowling

    A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks, Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone
  • Period: to

    THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

  • Suzanne Collins

    Suzanne Collins

    The hunger games, trilogy.
  • J.K. Rowling

    J.K. Rowling

    Under a pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, starts Cormoran Strike, a series of crime fiction novels.