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410 BCE
English Literature in the Anglo-Saxon 410 D.C
English literature begins with the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, period, which began in about 410 AD. In the Old English period, epic poetry, which began as an oral art, as exemplified in "Beowulf." The period is also known for its beautiful elegies, such as "The Wanderer" and "The Sailor." The Old English period ended with the Norman invasion of 1066, when French became the language of the educated classes, gradually mixing with Anglo-Saxon to produce Middle English. -
700
Beowulf 700 and 750
Beowulf, heroic poem, the greatest achievement of ancient English literature and the first European vernacular epic. It deals with the events of the early 6th century and is believed to have been composed between 700 and 750. Beowulf belongs metrically, stylistically, and thematically to a heroic tradition based on Germanic religion and mythology. It is also part of the broader tradition of heroic poetry. -
1066
English literature in the Middle Ages 1066
Middle English gave way to modern English during the Middle Ages, and Great Britain produced many great authors during the 16th and 17th centuries. In the Middle English period, medieval romances, like the tales of King Arthur, were popular.The first English author Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in medieval English one of his most famous works is the Canterbury Tales. Although Chaucer is an English author, his work was inspired by the changes and developments taking place in Europe, especially in Italy. -
1343
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
In 1357, Geoffrey Chaucer became a public servant to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster and continued in that capacity at the British court throughout his life. The Canterbury Tales became his best known and most acclaimed work. He died on October 25, 1400, in London, England, and was the first to be buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. -
1387
The Canterbury Tales 1387-1400
The Canterbury Tales are a collection of 24 short stories written in Middle English, being one of the most important works of English literature of the Middle Ages. The Canterbury Tales or Tales of Caunterbury, so-called in Middle English, were written by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is based on the narratives of a group of pilgrims, who travel on horseback from London to Canterbury in order to visit the sanctuary of Thomas of Canterbury or Thomas Becket, in Canterbury Cathedral. -
1550
Renaissance Literature 1550
In the brief and intense moment that England assimilated in the European Renaissance, the circumstances that made assimilation possible were already disintegrating and calling into question the newly won certainties, as well as the older truths they were dislodging. This duplicity, of new possibilities and new doubts apprehended simultaneously, gives literature an unmatched intensity. -
1564
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
English playwright and poet. Only with his verses would he have already passed into the history of literature; For his theatrical genius, and especially for the impressive portrayal of the human condition in his great tragedies, Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright of all time. The publication, in 1593, of his poem Venus and Adonis, very well received in London literary circles, was one of his first successes. -
Venus and Adonis 1593
Among the various poems that Shakespeare wrote - and which were printed on his initiative - he dealt with two characters from Greco-Roman mythology: Venus and Adonis. Published in 1593, edited by Richard Field and dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, as a very well received poem, 10 reprints were made of it during Shakespeare's lifetime. -
British literature of the 17th century 1600
The plays and poems of William Shakespeare feature prominently in any English literature course. His works are divided into three titles: comedies, where the characters use deception and disguise to win true love; tragedies, where a hero succumbs to a tragic flaw in character that causes his own and many other deaths; and stories, where the central character is a former king whose defects cause his disappearance. Other prominent authors of this period are John Donne and John Milton. -
Neoclassical period- illustration 18th century
The classical revival, also known as Neoclassicism, refers to movements in the arts that are inspired by the "classical" art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. The heyday of neoclassicism coincided with the Enlightenment era of the 18th century and continued until the early 19th century. Neoclassicism grew to encompass all the arts, including painting, sculpture, decorative arts, theater, literature, music, and architecture. -
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
He was born on August 30, 1748, in Paris. He trained as a painter at the Royal Academy and at the Vien studio. In 1774 he won the Prix de Rome and moved to Italy. His work Oath of the Horatii was conceived to proclaim the rise of neoclassicism. After 1789 his works began to have a more realistic line. During 1799-1815 he worked as Napoleon Bonaparte's official painter. Some of his works are. "The death of Seneca - 1773", "The oath of the Horatii - 1784" -
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
He studied at John's College, Cambridge, although with little interest and application, and took advantage of his 1790 vacation to make a trip to France, where he became a passionate defender of revolutionary ideals. The following year, after graduating, he returned to France. His early books of poetry, such as An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches, published in 1793, brought him little fame and no money. -
The Oath of the Horatii 1784
The Oath of the Horatii reached a greater relief the double structure: on the one hand, unity of place, time and history and on the other, distribution in three acts of the narrative. These three acts or moments are physically marked by the groups of characters and by the three arches of the background architecture. The story goes back to the legendary origin of Rome, which is in conflict with the city of Alba, in the 7th century BC. -
Descriptive Sketches 1790
He studied at John's College, Cambridge, although with little interest and application, and took advantage of his 1790 vacation to make a trip to France, where he became a passionate defender of revolutionary ideals. The following year, after graduating, he returned to France. His early books of poetry, such as An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches, published in 1793, brought him little fame and no money. -
John keats (1795-1821)
British poet. The death of his father and his humble origin led him to work as a practitioner in the house of a surgeon, to later enter as an external student at Guy's Hospital in London (1815). His fondness for reading discovered the world of poetry, in which he began under the influence of Edmund Spenser. He published his first volume of poems in 1817 and, despite its limited success, decided to abandon surgery to dedicate himself only to literature. -
The romantic period 1798 and 1837
The Romantic period began around 1798 and lasted until 1837. The political and economic atmosphere of the time greatly influenced this period, and many writers were inspired by the French Revolution. Romanticism was an intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization during a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. -
British romantic period 1800
This period produced authors who wrote about life, love, and nature. Many of these authors found the world disappointing and had a melancholy bent toward their works. John Keats is possibly the most famous author of this period. Students often study his many odes, especially one that contemplates the unchanging nature and eternal youth of the characters, William Wordsworth is also a key figure, with the remarkable poem "The world is too much with us, late and soon." -
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850
R. L.Stevenson received his law degree from the University of Edinburgh, although he never practiced law. In search of a favorable climate for his delicate lungs,he traveled continuously, and his first books are descriptions of some of these trips "Journey by donkey through the Cevennes."His popularity as a writer was based mainly on the exciting plots of his fantasy novels and of adventures, in which good and evil always appear in opposition, as a moral allegory that uses mystery and adventure. -
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) is a novel by British writer Robert Luis Stevenson published in 1886. It is a book of terror and intrigue in which it is revealed a debate between good and evil, as well as the duality of the human being. Its origin is due to a nightmare of the author himself who, soon, on paper, became a classic of literature. -
The Innisfree Lake Island 1890
It is a poem by the Irish writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), composed in 1888 and published in 1890 in The National. In this sense the Lake of Innisfree appears as an almost idyllic, utopian place, although in fact, it is not; rather, it replaces the harsh everyday objectivity with an expanded but dissected memory; to such an extent that even the rainy climate of Ireland appears to us as eternally sunny. -
Victorian British Literature 1900
The Victorian period, which lasted from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, includes the love poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson's sweeping saga of Camelot entitled "Idylls of the King," and Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure stories and novels, including his famous "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." -
Modernist British Literature 1915
This literature was a literary movement that developed only in narrative and poetry in the first third of the 20th century, characterized, in other respects, by formal experimentation, the constant presence of mythological motifs, the influence of authors from the European continent. and a distancing of the author from the general public. It includes the works of William Butler Yeats and Virginia Woolfe, who dealt with themes of death and disillusionment and pioneered new literary forms. -
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Irish poet and playwright. Creator of the twilight Celtic style, he was undoubtedly the greatest representative of the revival of modern Irish literature, and one of the most prominent authors of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. He wrote lyrical and symbolic poems on pagan Irish themes, such as The Pilgrimage of Oisin (1889), The Island of Innisfree Lake (1893), and the Book of Irish Poems (1895).
