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Between 450 and 1066 is when we have the first texts to which we can refer to the history of English literature. What is preserved and what we can study is because there are manuscripts, copies, in convents / religious places. Written in Old English (Germanic language)
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The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
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The first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
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Taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy
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Was a form of the English language spoken after the Norman conquest (1066) until the late 15th century. English underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period
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Known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, later provides humanists with the name Dunsman or dunce
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A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman
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Chaucer completes Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy
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English renaissance was a period called Tudor period, or the period of rebirth
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Studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English
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Tamburlaine the Great, features the shocking blank verse of the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
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The central character of Shakespeare in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disappointment of a less confident era
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John Smith publishes A Description of New England, a review of his exploration of the region in 1614
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John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King
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The Puritan period was also known as John Milton´s era, who was a prominent writer
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This period is called the age of Dryden because he was the dominating literary figure in the age
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John Locke publishes his Essay on human understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience
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It is also called Neoclassical period, it was influenced by contemporary French literature
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Henry Fielding presents a character of lasting appeal in the scruffy but good-hearted Tom Jones
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Thomas Chatterton, who was later hailed as an important poet, commits suicide in a London attic
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Thomas Paine publishes his complete Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity
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This Romantic Era was about people´s ancient connection and reverence with nature
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads
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William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton
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William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides
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Charles Dickens' first novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838)
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The Victorian period was significant for Britain because it was the most powerful nation
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Peter Mark Roget publishes his dictionary of synonyms, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
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The English author George Eliot gains fame with his first full-length novel, Adam Bede
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French artist and author George du Maurier publishes his novel Trilby
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rejecting romanticism and presented experimentation
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Rudyard Kipling publish Just So Stories for Little Children
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James Joyce post Just So Stories for Little Children
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Henry Williamson wins a large number of readers with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon
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John Maynard Keynes defines its economy in the general theory of employment, interests and money
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period of change after the second world war. appeared techniques, such as fragmentation, paradox and narration
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Roald Dahl publishes a novel for children, James and the Giant Peach
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Iris Murdoch publishes The Sea, the Sea, and wins the 1978 Booker Award
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Julian Barnes publishes a multifaceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot
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Michael Frayn publishes Mandolin of Captain Corelli, a love story set in the Kefalonia occupied by the Italians
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The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
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Contemporary literature works reflect the social and / or political views of a society, shown through realistic characters, connections with current events and socio-economic messages.
