Timeline about the History of English Literature

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  • Old English(479-900)
    479 BCE

    Old English(479-900)

    Beowulf- Anonymous author: It is the oldest document written in the Anglo-Saxon language between the 6th and 8th centuries.
    Hymn of Caedmon: written by monks. The first written texts were poems from the 7th century.
    (Cynewulf, who lived in the 9th century, was another author of religious poetry).
  • A chronological view about English literauture
    449 BCE

    A chronological view about English literauture

    Writers from the British Isles have produced a rich literature. They include writers from Scotland and Wales, as well as England. It begins with oral transmission rather than written texts proper, where works containing epic stories and legends that were told and known at the time have been preserved to the present day.
    includes the periods:
    -Anglo-Saxon - 449
    - Medieval - 1066
    - Renaissance - 1485
    - Century XVII
    -Century XVIII
    -- Romantic - 1798
    - Victorian - 1832
    - Modern - 1900
  • Medieval Period (1066)
    1066

    Medieval Period (1066)

    High Middle Ages (X-XV)
    Copyists: ecclesiastics, many of them did not know how to read or write, they only copied texts. The stories of King Arthur: They were written between the 12th and 16th centuries and taken from oral legends. High Middle Ages (X-XV)
    Godfrey of Monmouth, English: The Historia Regum Britanniae (1130 and 1136),. High Middle Ages (X-XV)
    Geoffrey Chaucer, English: Writes the Canterbury Tales (between 1387 and 1400),
  • RENAISSANCE PERIOD In 1476, William Caxton introduced printing to England. From that moment on, literature began to flourish. The poetry, drama and prose written during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I constitute the English Renaissance
    1476

    RENAISSANCE PERIOD In 1476, William Caxton introduced printing to England. From that moment on, literature began to flourish. The poetry, drama and prose written during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I constitute the English Renaissance

    Elizabethan Era (1558 - 1603)
    Shakespeare, (1564-1616): Hamlet, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra.
    Edmund Spenser, (1552-1599).poem "The Faerie Queene", Celebrating the Tudor dynasty, and Elizabeth I,
    Jacobin Period (1558 - 1625)
    Shakespeare,(1564-1616): King Lear (1605), Macbeth (1606) and The Tempest (1610).Thomas Dekker, (1572 - 1632):Caesar's Fall (1602).George Chapman, (1559-1634): Translates Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into English (1616),Francis Bacon, (1561,1626): English prose.
  • CENTURY XVII

    CENTURY XVII

    John Milton, English man (1608-1674):Writes Paradise Lost (1667) John Dryden, English (1631-1700):Focuses on writing Satire, plays, drama. John Bunyan, English (1628-1688):Writes Pilgrim's Walk (1675 and 1684). Thomas Otway, English (1652-1685):Writes The Mourning Wife (1697). Religion was the axis where great events took place in Europe such as the Second and Third Crusades.
  • CENTURY XVIII August Age

    CENTURY XVIII August Age

    Daniel Defoe, Englishman (1660-1731):Wrote Robinson Crusoe (1719). Alexander Pope, English (1688-1744 ):Writes his major work, The Stealing of the Curl (1713). Jonathan Swift, Irish (1667-1745):Writes Gulliver's Travels (1726) Jane Austen, English (1775-1817):Pride and Prejudice (1813), and above all, Emma (1816). James Macpherson, English (1736-1796):Wrote the Ossian Poems (1765). Mary Shelley, English (1797-1851):Wrote the famous work Doctor Frankenstein (1831)
  • CENTURY XIX Emergence of the Victorian novel and Romanticism.

    CENTURY XIX Emergence of the Victorian novel and Romanticism.

    Emily Brontë, Englishwoman (1818-1848):with her work Wuthering Heights (1847). Bram Stoker, Irish (1847-1912):He wrote Dracula (1897) Oscar Wilde, Irish (1854-1900):Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish (1850-1894):With his work The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). Lewis Carroll, English (1832-1898):And his well-known work Alice's Adventuresin Wonderland (1865)
  • Period: to 1916 BCE

    CENTURY XIX

    Charles Dickens, (1812-1870): He wrote, among other works, Oliver Twist (1837).
    Rudyard Kipling,(1812-1870): The Jungle Book (1894).
    Herman Melville, (1819-1891): with his famous work Moby Dick (1851).
    H. Rider Haggard, (1856-1925): wrote King Solomon's Mines (1885).
    Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849): wrote, among others, The Fall of the House of Usher (1839).
    Mark Twain, (1819-1891): and his well-known work The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
    Jack London (1876- 1916): He wrote, White Fang (1906).
  • CENTURY XX

    CENTURY XX

    Oscar Wilde: Comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)".
    George Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara (1905) and Pygmalion (1913).
    Joseph Conrad: Realistic stories such as Lord Jim (1900).
    W. Somerset Maugham " In The Moon and Sixpence (1919)."
    Aldous Huxley: novels such as Brave New World (1932).
    Virginia Wolf: Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927),
    Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961)He wrote, among other works, The Old Sea (1952).
  • CENTURY XXI

    CENTURY XXI

    Ian McEwan, English (1948): Writes Atonement (2001) J. K. Rowling,, English (1965):Writes her famous Harry Potter Saga (1997-2007) Graham Swift,, English (1949):Writes Daylight (2003) J.R.R Tolkien:(1940 and 1950) "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit". J.K. Rowling 1995 Harry Potter