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Complete his history of the English church and people, in the monastery at Jarrow
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Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons.
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It is a compilation between prosaic Edda and poetic Edda. Take place in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain, and Burgundy.
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Provides humanist with the name Dunsman or Dunce. Some works like Quaestiones, Lectura, expositio, ordinatio, collationes, reportatio,theoremata.
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Between 1301 to 1400, It is a hard period, black plague, wars, and else events in all Europe.
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"Simpler solutions are more likely to be correct than complex one" attributed by William of Ockham
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Is the epic poem written by Will whose name may be Langland
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Is a metric romance written in a only manuscript, the dialect is from the Midlands from northwest middle english.
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the long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Chaucer begins and ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death.
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An English account of the French tales of King Arthur
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Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance they were two humanist writers and two main leaders of the Protestant Reformation
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William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English
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Is the first version of the English prayer book, is published with text by Thomas Cranmer
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Are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible 1588.
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Was the first Marlowe´s play, introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
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Was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Scientific Revolution, and according to some historians, The General Crisis.
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Shakespeare´s central character expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disilution of a less confident age.
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Written by Ben Jonson, the first of his many masques for the court of James I.
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The satirical voice of the English playwright Ben Jonson is heard to powerful effect in Volpone.
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Shakespeare´s last completed play is performed.
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written by John Smith as an account of his explaration of the region in 1614.
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Dies at New Place, his home of Stratford-Upon-Avon, and is buried in Holy Trinity Church
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John Heminge and Henry Condell publish thirty-six Shakespeare plays in the First Folio.
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George Herbert's only volume of poems, The Temple, is published posthumously
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John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King.
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The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under this title.
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Devoted fisherman Izaak Walton publishes this classic work.
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It is published, earning its author John Milton just £10.
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Written during John Bunyan's two spells in Bedford Gaol, is published and is immediately popular.
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Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade
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Published by John Locke, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience.
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The Augustan Age begins in English literature, claiming comparison with the equivalent flowering under Augustus Caesar.
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1719 Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, with its detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel.
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Jonathan Swift sends his hero on a series of bitterly satirical travels in Gulliver's Travels.
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Is published by David Hume, in which he applies to the human mind the principles of experimental science.
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Samuel Richardson's Clarissa begins the correspondence that grows into the longest novel in the English language.
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By the English poet Thomas Gray.
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By Samuel Johnson.
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Fingal, supposedly by the medieval poet Ossian, is a forgery in the spirit of the times by James MacPherson.
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English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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English author Horace Walpole provides an early taste of Gothic thrills in his novel.
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Made by an Society of Gentlemen in Scotland.
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written by Oliver Goldsmith and is produced in London's Covent Garden theatre.
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By William Blake, in a volume of his poems with every page etched and illustrated by himself.
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Written by Anglo-Irish politician Edmund Burke, is a blistering attack on recent events across the Channel.
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English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes hers passionately feminist work.
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Thomas Paine moves hurriedly to France, to escape a charge of treason in England for opinions expressed in his Rights of Man
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William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright'
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Published by Thomas Paine, an attack on conventional Christianity
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English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement.
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By Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a poem and published in Lyrical Ballad.
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Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame
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English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, at her own expense.
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The first two cantos are published of Byron's largely autobiographical poem, bringing him immediate fame.
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It is based on a youthful work of 1797 called First Impressions, is the second of Jane Austen's novels to be published.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias.
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Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death
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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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Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusade
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English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden.
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By the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written mainly in a wood near Florence
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English author, publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
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English author William Hazlitt publishes Table Talk, a two-volume collection that includes most of his best-known essays.
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English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay
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24-year-old, begins monthly publication of his first work of fiction, Pickwick Papers (published in book form in 1837)
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Charles Dickens' first novel, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838).
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English poet Robert Browning publishes a vivid narrative poem about the terrible revenge.
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Benjamin Disraeli develops the theme of Conservatism uniting 'two nations', the rich and the poor.
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After running a textile factory in Manchester, publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England.
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Edward Lear publishes his book, consisting of limericks illustrated with his own cartoons.
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English author William Makepeace Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts
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Charlotte becomes the first of the Brontë sisters to have a novel published.
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Charles Dickens begins the publication in monthly numbers of David Copperfield, his own favourite among his novels
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London physician Peter Mark Roget publishes his dictionary of synonyms, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.
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Tennyson publishes a long narrative poem, Maud, a section of which ('Come into the garden, Maud') becomes famous as a song
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English author Anthony Trollope publishes The Warden, the first in his series of six Barsetshire novels
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In Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes depicts the often brutal aspects of an English public school
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Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, the result of 20 years' research
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Charles Dickens publishes his French Revolution novel.
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Edward FitzGerald publishes The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, romantic translations of the work of the Persian poe
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English author George Eliot wins fame with her first full-length novel, Adam Bede
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By George Eliot, her novel about the childhood of Maggie and Tom Tulliver
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Mrs Henry Wood publishes her first novel, which becomes the basis of the most popular of all Victorian melodramas.
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Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll tells 10-year-old Alice Liddell, on a boat trip, a story about her own adventures in Wonderland
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English author Charles Kingsley publishes an improving fantasy for young children.
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Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a development of the story he had told Alice Liddell three years earlier
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Charles Dickens begins serial publication of his novel "Great Expectations" (in book form 1861)
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English author Matthew Arnold publishes Culture and Anarchy, an influential collection of essays about contemporary society
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Lewis Carroll publishes Through the Looking Glass, a second story of Alice's adventures
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English author Thomas Hardy has his first success with this novel.
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William Gladstone's pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors, protesting at massacre by the Turks, sells 200,000 copies within a month
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Lewis Carroll publishes a poem about a voyage in search of an elusive mythical creature
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure story, Treasure Island, features Long John Silver and Ben Gunn.
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Oxford University Press publishes the A volume of its New English Dictionary, which will take 37 years to reach Z
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Explorer and orientalist Richard Burton begins publication of his multi-volume translation from the Arabic of The Arabian Nights
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Thomas Hardy publishes his novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, which begins with the future mayor, Michael Henchard selling his wife and child at a fair
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Robert Louis Stevenson introduces a dual personality in his novel.
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Sherlock Holmes features in Conan Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet
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23-year-old Irish author William Butler Yeats publishes his first volume of poems.
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Oscar Wilde publishes his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in which the ever-youthful hero's portrait grows old and ugly
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Thomas Hardy publishes his novel Tess of the Durbervilles, with a dramatic finale at Stonehenge
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W.B. Yeats publishes a short play The Countess Cathleen, his first contribution to Irish poetic drama
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Mr Pooter is the suburban anti-hero, by George and Weedon Grossmith
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Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book surrounds the child Mowgli with a collection of vivid animal guardians
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Oscar Wilde's most brilliant comedy, is performed in London's St. James Theatre
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H.G. Wells publishes a story about a Time Traveller whose first stop on his journey is the year 802701
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English poet A.E. Housman publishes his first collection
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Somerset Maugham publishes his first novel, based on the London life he has observed as a medical student.
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English author Bram Stoker publishes his gothic tale of vampirism in Transylvania.
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H.G. Wells publishes his science-fiction novel, in which Martians arrive in a rocket to invade earth
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By Henry James in a collection of short stories.
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By E. Nesbit, introducing the Bastable family who feature in several of her books for children.
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Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Lord Jim about a life of failure and redemption in the far East.
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By Beatrix Potter
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Written by Rudyard Kipling.
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John Masefield's poem published in Salt-Water Ballads
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Henry James publishes the first of his three last novels.
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Joseph Conrad publishes a collection of stories including Heart of Darkness, a sinister tale based partly on his own journey up the Congo.
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Erskine Childers has a best-seller in The Riddle of the Sands, a thriller about a planned German invasion of Britain
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Joseph Conrad publishes his novel, about a revolution in South America and a fatal horde of silver.
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Henry James publishes his last completed novel.
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J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London
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H.G. Wells publishes Kipps. A comic novel about a bumbling draper's assistant.
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has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman
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E. Nesbit publishes The Railway Children, the most successful of her books featuring the Bastable family.
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John Galsworthy publishes the first of his novels chronicling the family of Soames Forsyte.
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Edmund Gosse publishes Father and Son, an account of his difficult relationship with his fundamentalist father, Philip Gosse
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Rat, Mole and Toad, in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, appeal to a wide readership
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The heroine of H.G. Wells' novel Ann Veronica is a determined example of the New Woman
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John Buchan publishe, the first of his adventure stories
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H.G. Wells publishes a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence.
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D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel.
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D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family.
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After years of delay James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is published
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The English writer Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel.
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D.H. Lawrence's novel about the Brangwen family, is seized by the police as an obscene work.
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Robert Graves publishes his first book of poems.
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Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P.G. Wodehouse's The Man with Two Left Feet.
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Rebecca West publishes her first novel.
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The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book.
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The gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in Dorothy Sayers' Whose Body?
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E.M. Forster's novel builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities.
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English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett finds her characteristic voice in her second novel.
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T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical, describing his part in the Arab uprising.
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Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders
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Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
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Henry Williamson wins a wide readership with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon
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Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel.
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Richard Hughes publishes his first novel.
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English author J.B. Priestley has an immediate success with his first novel.
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Is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple makes her first appearance.
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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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British author Aldous Huxley gives a bleak view of a science-based future in his novel.
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John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is published first in New York.
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H.G. Wells publishes a novel in which he accurately predicts a renewal of world war.
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T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral
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British author Graham Greene publishes Brighton Rock, a novel following 17-year-old Pinkie in the criminal underworld of the seaside town
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T.S. Eliot gives cats a poetic character in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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English children's author Enid Blyton introduces the Famous Five in Five on a Treasure Island
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English author and alcoholic Malcolm Lowry publishes an autobiographical novel.
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C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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British author John Wyndham creates a dark fantasy in his novel The Day of the Triffids
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William Golding gives a chilling account of schoolboy savagery in his first novel.
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British philologist J.R.R. Tolkien publishes the third and final volume of his epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings
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Is English author Ted Hughes' first volume of poems
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Harold Pinter's first play in London's West End, The Birthday Party, closes in less than a week
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Anthony Burgess publishes a novel depicting a disturbing and violent near-future.
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Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child.
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English author Angela Carter wins recognition with her quirky second novel.
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British author Ian McEwan publishes his first novel.
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English author Anita Brookner publishes her first novel.
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English author Julian Barnes publishes a multi-faceted literary novel.
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Scottish author Irvine Welsh publishes his first novel.
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A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
