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449 BCE
Anglo- saxons
This time characterised for a tradition oral of poèmes epiques of songs and poesie. The most important poeme of this epoc was "Beowulf" about a giant warrior -
731
The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
Go to Bede (673–735) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)
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1066
Medieval times
Invasion of Normandy for Great Britain, made Medieval English go to Middle ages.
Literature works during this period were about kings of great Britain, such as King Artur and Carterbury tales. This period was also important for the Catholic Church, because it was very important in daily life.
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1485
Renaissance time literature
In this time birth dramatists, with one of the most important , William Shakespeare. -
HAMLET by Shakespeare.
'Hamlet'
Considered by many literary critics to be Shakespeare’s greatest play, this deeply moving story follows Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, as he grieves for his father and avenges his death. Possibly based on Shakespeare’s personal experience of losing his own son, Hamnet, in 1596, this tragedy manages to explore the complex psychology of its young hero hundreds of years before the emergence of psychology as a concept. For this alone, "Hamlet" deserves the number one -
Romeo and Juliet by shakespeare.
'Romeo and Juliet'
Shakespeare is perhaps most famous for "Romeo and Juliet," the classic story of two “star-crossed lovers.” This play has seeped into the consciousness of popular culture: if we describe someone as romantic, we might describe him as “a Romeo,” and the balcony scene is possibly the world’s most iconic (and quoted) dramatic text. -
Neoclassical Literature
Neoclassical literature was written between 1660 and 1798. It was a time of both formality and artificiality. Writers of the Neoclassical period tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks. Thus the combination of the terms 'neo,' which means 'new,' and 'classical,' as in the day of the Roman and Greek classics. This was also the era of The Enlightenment, which emphasized logic and reason. (Wordsworth published the Romantic 'Lyrical Ballads'.1798 ) -
English Literature Origins in formal way
English literature first enters the university in the 1760s, in Scotland, but it does so under the (to us) strange- sounding label of ‘Rhetoric and Belles Lettres’. This was the title of the series of lectures given by Adam Smith The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature
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Romantic literature time
William Blake is considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic age.
Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. The Romantic period was one of major social change in England, because of the depopulation of the countryside.
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University College london, began teaching.
University College London began teaching in 1828 and included on its staff Britain’s first ‘Professor of English Language and Literature’ Tsken from:
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victorian literature time
Victorian literature is literature, mainly written in English, during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) (the Victorian era). While in the preceding Romantic period, poetry had been the dominant genre, it was the novel that was most important in the Victorian period. One of the most important authors is Charles Dickens. Taken from:
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King's college london, began teaching English Literature
King’s College London, the following year; by 1835 it had a professor of English Literature and History too Taken from: http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.bibliotecavirtual.unad.edu.co/eds/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzc4MzkxN19fQU41?sid=498627b4-977f-46f9-ad56-3d4c2be4f48c@sessionmgr4006&vid=0&format=EB&rid=1 -
Glasgow and Trinity College
. As the nineteenth century continued, more new universities were founded in other cities across England, Ireland and Wales, and these usually had a professor of English Literature as well. Older universities followed suit: Glasgow in 1862, and Trinity College Dublin in 1867. -
Cambridge University
At last Cambridge University established an examination board in ‘Medieval and Modern Languages’ which included English as one of its topics in 1878. Taken form:
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Oxford and Cambridge established Professorship.
Oxford established a Professorship in English Language and Literature in 1885 and Cambridge a separate Professorship in English Literature in 1911.
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Modernism literature time
Modernism. The Modernist Period in English Literature occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965. In broad terms, the period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world.
Eliot, Ezra Pound, the Dutch author Menno ter Braak and others.
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