Timeline History of English Literature.

Miguel Andrés Rojas

 As a consequence of the Viking
invasions from the eighth The first great
century, the language suffered work of
the ancient Nordic influence. Germanic
This fact is due to a series of literature, mixes
words related to the sea and the legends of
navigation among others, Scandinavia with
specific to social organization, the experience in
such as law, take, cut, both and England of the
are conjugated form of the Anglos and
verb to be Saxons

Old Nordic The Venerable

Old English (449) Beowulf (800) Eddas (950)
Influence (701- 800) Bede (731)

It is a variant of
The material of Eddas
western Germanic, In his monastery in that takes shape in
language that Jarrow, he completes Iceland is derived
touched the island his history of the from previous sources
around the year 449, English church and in Norway, Great
Anglo and Saxon people Britain and Burgundy
invaders
 During this period the gender disappears, the
Thanks to King Alfredo, England's
dual and the declination of pronouns in dative,
first legislator, the works of St.
accusative takes a unique form. To avoid
Augustine, St. Gregory, of Beda the
confusion, adopt Scandinavian pronouns, (they,
Venerable were translated from
they) and acquire the relative value of the forms
Latin; however, the dialect of the
(What, Which and Which). In the conjugation the
angels was the language in which
terminations disappear and a unique form is used
he wrote the epic poem Bewoulf,
for the singular and the prural in the past of the
as well as An elegiac poetry that
strong sent verbs (equivalent to the irregular
had some interest.
ones of the Spanish)

Intermediate English
(1001 – 1100) Important changes in languages (1200)
(1066)

It is usually dated from the

Norman conquest in 1066.
At the end of the period
the language that began
to be flexible and
declined, became
determined by the
syntactic order
 In the fourteenth
century, the Anglo
He advocates
language gained its
reducing arguments
true prestige, in the
to the essentials, an
cities the universities
approach later known
emerged and a
as Ockhamn´s Razor
prosperous economic
and courteous life
developed.

The language acquires William of Ockham William Langland

Duns Scotus (1300)
prestige (1301-1400) (1340) (1367)

A narrator who calls

Known as the subtle himself Will and
doctor in medieval whose name may be
times he later gives Langland begins the
the humanists on epic poem of Piers
behalf of Dunsman Plowman
The change was updated in the Study at the
fifteenth century, when all long University of
voices were pronounced with a Wittenberg and plan
greater degree of extension of to translate the Bible
the tongue and occlusion of into English
the mouth.

Change of vocal system William Tyndale

Classic Stage (1500) Marlowe (1587)
(1401-1600) (1524)

At the beginning of this Marlowe's first work.

period, beginning in Tamburlaine the
1500, there is an great, presents the
increase in lexicon, both shocking blank verse
due to the diffusion of of the Elizabethan
languages ​and the loans and Jacobean drama
it receives from other
languages ​with which it
comes into contact.
The central character
He publishes his essay
of Shakespeare in
on human
Hamlet expresses
understanding
both the ideals of
arguing that all
rebirth and the
knowledge is based
disappointment of a
on experience
less confident era

Shakespeare (1601) John Smith (1616) John Locke (1690)

He publishes A
description of New
England, a review of
his exploration of the
region in 1614
 The 17-year-old, who
was later hailed as an
important poet,
commits suicide in
London.

Henry Fielding (1749) Thomas Chatteton (1770) Thomas Paine (1795)

Present a person of He publishes Age of

lasting appeal in the Reason, an attack on
scruffy but good- conventional
hearted Tom Jones Christianity
 The London doctor
publishes his
French artist and
dictionary of
author publishes his
synonyms, the
novel Trilby
thesaurus of words
and phrases in English

Peter Mark Roget George du Maurier

William Cobbet (1819) George Eliot (1859)
(1852) (1894)

Return the bones to He gains fame with

England of Thmas his first full-length
Paine who died in the novel. Adam Bede
US in 1809
 The novel Portrait of
Define your economy
the Artist as Young
in the general theory
Man begins a serious
of employment,
publication in a
interests and money
London newspaper.

Rudyard Kipling James Joyce Henry Williamson John Keynes Kingsley Amis
(1902) (1914) (1927) (1936) (1955)

Win a large number

of readers with Tarka Amis and other young
Rudyard publishes writers in Britain are
Just So Stories for the Otter, a realistic
story of the life and known as Angry
Little Children Young Man
death of a nutri in
Devon.
 Louis publishes
Iris publishes The sea, Mondolin by Capitan
The sea. Win the Corelli, an amr story
Booker Permit in set in the Kefalonia
1978 occupied by the
Italians

Iris Murdoch Julian Barnes Louis de Michael Frayn

Roal Dahl (1961)
(1978) (1984) Bernieres (1994) (1998)

In Copenahgue it
He publishes his novel Julian publishes a ramatizes Werner's
for children. James multifaceted literary visit to Niels Bohr in
and the Giant Peach novel Denmark during the
war.