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Caracterizad by an oral tradition of epic poems, songs and poetry. Ancient or Anglo-Saxon English literature was well established by pre-Christian Germanic settlers. One of the best-known works of this period of time is Beowulf, an epic poem about the Geatish warrior of the same name.
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Venerable Bede, in his monastery in Jarrow, completes his history of the church and the English people. -
Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mixes the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of the Anglos and Saxons -
The Eddas material, which takes shape in Iceland, is derived from previous sources in Norway, Great Britain and Burgundy. -
The language was a dialect of French descent with Germanic influencies, usually called Anglo-Norman.
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known as Doctor Sutle in medieval times, later gives humanists the name Dunsman or dunce. -
advocates reducing arguments to the essentials, an approach later known as Ockham's Razor. -
A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins Piers Plowman's epic poem. -
begins an ambitious plan for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he only turns 24 by the time of his death. -
The English Renaissance saw the emergence of the mercantile class in Great Britain. Mathematics, science, technology, education and exploration became more accessible to the masses.
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studies at the University of Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English -
first play, Tamburlaine the Great, presents the shocking blank verse of the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. -
Is central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disappointment of a less confident era. -
John Smith publishes A Description of New England, a review of his exploration of the region in 1614 -
Lycidas by John Milton is published in memory of a friend of Cambridge, Edward King -
Neoclassical writers tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks, "Neo", which means "new" and "classical", which refers to classic works. This era was the starting point of the modern middle class and the tradition of afternoon tea.
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publishes his essay on human understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience. -
presents a character of lasting appeal in the scruffy but good-hearted Tom Jones -
who was later hailed as an important poet, commits suicide in an attic in London. -
publishes his complete Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity. -
Romanticism went from reason, logic and science to a belief in the senses. Feelings, imagination and experiences were valued above all else.
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He was an English writer, essayist and romantic poet. Among his most famous works are: Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, A Lark and The Mask of Anarchy. -
He wrote long narrative poems. He is recognized for his brief poetry with the use of the sonnet or odes. In them he talks about the human being, time and art, giving free laughing to his feelings. "Endymion" one of his poems is a tribute to Greek culture. -
One of the greatest exponents in this field. It dealt with themes set in the Middle Ages.
The characters and heroes he talks about in his novels are not idealized. -
He liked exotic and constant provocation. His extensive works were a clear example of his state of mind and his vision of the world.
"The pilgrimages of the young Harold.
The privateer" or the "The Prisoner of Chillon"
"Don Juan." One of his masterpieces. -
Beginning with the coronation of Queen Victoria and culminating in the year of her death, the Victorian era saw a battle between the romantic / Gothic and neoclassical / Enlightenment ideas.
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A writer and romantic woman. For a long time she was writing under a masculine pseudonym, Ellis Bell, to avoid the strong difficulties that 19th-century women had in working or writing, as is the case. -
London physician Peter Mark Roget publishes his dictionary of synonyms, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. -
English author George Eliot gains fame with his first full-length novel, Adam Bede -
He is the creator of one of the best-known characters in the world. Dickens' style is poetic with a strong comic tone. His satires constantly attack the British aristocracy -
French artist and author George du Maurier publishes his novel Trilby -
The British modernist authors had a sense of betrayal after being devastated by two world wars in Europe. They lost faith in their institutions of government, in what they once believed and now saw them lead to bloody conflicts.
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Rudyard Kipling publishes Just So Stories for Little Children -
James Joyce's novel, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, begins a serial publication in a London newspaper, The Egoist. -
wins a large number of readers with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon -
defines his economy in the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. -
Kingsley Amis and other young writers in Great Britain are known as Angry Young Men. -
British author Roald Dahl publishes a novel for children, James and the Giant Peach -
Iris Murdoch publishes The Sea, the Sea, and wins the Booker Prize 1978 -
English author Julian Barnes publishes a multifaceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot. -
Louis de Bernières publishes Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a love story set in Cephalonia occupied by the Italians -
Michael Frayn's play in Copenhagen dramatizes Werner Heisenberg's visit to Niels Bohr in Denmark during the war