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In the days of Elizabeth was organizing the first futile efforts to colonize the new world, English Literature.
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Sir Philip Sidney had written his Arcadia, first of the great prose romances, and enriched English poetry with his sonnets.
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American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales, and lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures.
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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
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"The Canterbury Tales," Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, another series of stories about late medieval cultural diversity. ca 1380.
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The plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare, some of them: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and King Lear. 1500s and 1600s.
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Edmund Spenser had composed The Shepherd's Calendar.
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Christopher Marlowe had established the drama upon heroic lines.
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The philosopher, Francis Bacon, had published the first of his essays. 1600s
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King James granted to a company of London merchants the first charter of Virginia.
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Shakespeare had produced some of his greatest plays.
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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.
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A book writes by himself, about his life.
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Smith writes the romantic story of Pocahontas on his book "True Relation".
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John Milton, the blind poet who wrote the allegorical epic "Paradise Lost,” about Lucifer’s story as a fallen angel.
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Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, a literature about a travel that turned out to be an imaginary one.
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Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels, a parody of the Daniel Defoe’s work.
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Arose different important romantic poets like William Woodsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, and others.
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Represent the period of growth of those genres.
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Jane Austen. Wrote several books (romantic literature), must famous: Sense and Sensibility.
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Jane Austen. Wrote several books (romantic literature), one of the most famous: Pride and Prejudice.
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Frankenstein, Gothic Horror one of the most important Monster novels.
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Charles Dickens (1812-70). Wrote Oliver Twist (1837) and Great Expectations.
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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Gothic Fiction, romantic novels with mystery.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, wrote the Detective fiction, Sherlock Holmes series, being the most famous “The hound of the Baskervilles”
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). One of the famous authors of Gothic Fiction, his most important write was “The Picture of the Dorian Gray”.
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The science fictions of H.G.Wells:
The Time Machine
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds
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Dracula, Frankenstein, Gothic Horror one of the most important Monster novels.
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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.”
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Modernism and stream of consciousness. Ulysses and Mrs Dalloway novel, by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
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One of the most famous example of fantasy literature “the hobbit (1937) By J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Dystopia an allegory about the Russian revolution, a novel writes by George Orwell.
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One of the most famous example of fantasy literature “the lord of the rings (1954-1955).” By J.R.R. Tolkien.
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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.