Timeline History of English Literature

  • Period: 731 BCE to

    Timeline History of English Literature

  • The Venerable Bede
    735

    The Venerable Bede

    In his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
  • Beowulf
    800

    Beowulf

    The first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons