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Old English
(450-1066) 731. The venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people.
975-1025. Beowulf, the firs great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons. -
1066
Middle English
(1066-1500) 1367. A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman.
1387. Chaucer begins an ambitiousn sheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death.
1459. Thomas Malory, in gaol somewhere in England, compiles Morte d´Arthur an English account of the French tales of King Arthur. -
1500
English Renaissance
(1500-1660) 1510. Eramus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism.
1590. English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the Protestant Elizabeth I as The Faerie Queene.
1601. Shakespeare´s central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age.
1653. puritan.
1558-1603. Elizabeth
1603-1625. Jacobean
1625-1653. Carolina -
The Neoclassical
(1660-1785) 1660-1700. Restauration Age
1700. 18 Century
1700-1750. Agustan
1750-1798. Age of Sensibility
1667. Paradise Lost is published, earning its author Jhon Milton.
1726. Jonathan Swift sends his hero on series of bitterly satirical travels in Gulliver´s travel.
1755. Samuel Johnson publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English Languaje -
The Romantic
(1785-1832) 1792. English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of woman.
1813. Pride and Prejudice, based on a youthful work of 1797 called first impressions, is the second of Jane Austen´s novels to be published.
1831. Oliver Wendell Holmes´ poem The Last Leaf is inspired by an aged survivor of the Boston Tea party. -
The Victorian
(1832-1901) 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge mends his ways just in time in Charles Dickens´ A Christmas Carol.
1895. H. G. Wells publishes The Time Machine, a story about a Time Traveller whose first stop on his journey is the year 802701.
1900. Frank Baum introduces children to Oz, in this book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. -
The Edwardian
(1901-1914) 1901. Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense. The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
1908. Lucy Maud Montgomery´s first novel, Anne of Green Gables, brings her instant fame and fortune.
1910. H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence. -
The Georgian
(1914-1936) 1915. Rupert Brooke´s 1914 and Other Poems is publishes a few months after his death in greece.
1925. Virginia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day.
1828. Irish author Frank Harris publishes the fourth and final volume of my life and loves. -
The Modern
(1936-1950) 1936. US author Margaret Mitchell publishes her one book, which becomes probably the best-selling novel of all time-Gone with the Wind.
1940 Ernest Hemingway publishes the novel for Whom the Bell Tolls, set in the Spanish Civil War .
1945 In Gearge Orwell´s fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyad using the techniques of Stalin. -
The Postmodern
(1950-2000) 1950. C.S. Lewis gives the firs glimpse of narnia in The Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe .
1979. US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical firs novel, I know why the caged bird sings.
1997. A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks in J.K. Rowling´s harry Potter and the Philosopher´s stone. -
Contemporary
(2010). Mockingjay completes Suzanne Collins´ trilogy, The hunger Games.
2013. J.K. Rowling starts cormoran strike, a series of crime fiction novels.
