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476
English Literature
In the days of Elizabeth was organizing the first futile efforts to colonize the new world, English Literature. -
476
Sir Philip Sidney and his Arcadia.
Sir Philip Sidney had written his Arcadia, first of the great prose romances, and enriched English poetry with his sonnets. -
476
American literature begin
American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales, and lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures. -
Period: 476 to
Early British Literature (from the middle ages to 1700s)
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800
The Anglo– Saxon.
The Anglo – Saxon epic spoken poem "Beowulf." A variety of series of adventures tales about fighting of monsters and a hero named Beowulf. Ca 800-1000 -
1380
"The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer
"The Canterbury Tales," Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, another series of stories about late medieval cultural diversity. ca 1380. -
Period: 1500 to
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare, some of them: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and King Lear. 1500s and 1600s. -
1579
The Shepherd's Calendar.
Edmund Spenser had composed The Shepherd's Calendar. -
Literature with heroic lines.
Christopher Marlowe had established the drama upon heroic lines. -
Francis Bacon
The philosopher, Francis Bacon, had published the first of his essays. 1600s -
King James "the first charter of Virginia"
King James granted to a company of London merchants the first charter of Virginia. -
Shakespeare's success.
Shakespeare had produced some of his greatest plays. -
Captain John Smith
Captain John Smith, the mainstay of the Jamestown colony in the critical period of its early existence, was a true soldier, traveled to several places and had a lot of experiences on those, so, he wrote a narrative of his singularly full and adventurous life. -
"True Relation" by Captain John Smith.
A book writes by himself, about his life. -
Pocahontas.
Smith writes the romantic story of Pocahontas on his book "True Relation". -
"Paradise Lost"
John Milton, the blind poet who wrote the allegorical epic "Paradise Lost,” about Lucifer’s story as a fallen angel. -
"Robinson Crusoe"
Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, a literature about a travel that turned out to be an imaginary one. -
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels, a parody of the Daniel Defoe’s work. -
Period: to
Romantic Literature
Arose different important romantic poets like William Woodsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, and others. -
Period: to
Romantic and Gothic Literature of the 1800s.
Represent the period of growth of those genres. -
Jane Austen (romantic literature).
Jane Austen. Wrote several books (romantic literature), must famous: Sense and Sensibility. -
Jane Austen (romantic literature).
Jane Austen. Wrote several books (romantic literature), one of the most famous: Pride and Prejudice. -
Gothic Horror
Frankenstein, Gothic Horror one of the most important Monster novels. -
Charles Dickens (1812-70)
Charles Dickens (1812-70). Wrote Oliver Twist (1837) and Great Expectations. -
Gothic Fiction.
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Gothic Fiction, romantic novels with mystery. -
Period: to
From final of 1800s to the present.
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Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes series.
Arthur Conan Doyle, wrote the Detective fiction, Sherlock Holmes series, being the most famous “The hound of the Baskervilles” -
"The Picture of the Dorian Gray"
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). One of the famous authors of Gothic Fiction, his most important write was “The Picture of the Dorian Gray”. -
Period: to
Science Fictions Literature
The science fictions of H.G.Wells:
The Time Machine
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds
The Island of Doctor Moreau -
Gothic Horror
Dracula, Frankenstein, Gothic Horror one of the most important Monster novels. -
George Bernard Shaw and Pygmalion
The Playwright George Bernard Shaw, wrote Pygmalion, knowing as my fairy lady these days because its movie; a relate about man who helps a woman to become in a “proper lady.” -
Modernism and stream of consciousness
Modernism and stream of consciousness. Ulysses and Mrs Dalloway novel, by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. -
Fantasy Literature
One of the most famous example of fantasy literature “the hobbit (1937) By J.R.R. Tolkien. -
Allegory Literature
Dystopia an allegory about the Russian revolution, a novel writes by George Orwell. -
Fantasy Literature
One of the most famous example of fantasy literature “the lord of the rings (1954-1955).” By J.R.R. Tolkien. -
Period: to
Fantasy Literature "Harry Potter series."
J.K Rowling (1965-) wrote the Harry Potter series, the most famous example of fantasy and literature; Rowling has become the most successful author of the English literature history.