History of English Literature (to the Romantic Period)
History of English Literature (to the Romantic Period)
SOURCE: Norton Antology of English Literature
Old English Period
Bebe (ca. 673-735)
_Beowulf_ (ca. 900)
14th and 15th Centruries
Chaucer (1343-1400) _Canterbury Tales_ (1386)
_Sir Gwain and the Green Knight_ (1375-1400)
_Piers Plowman_ (1372-1389)
_Everyman_ (1485) - Morality Play
_Robin Hood_
Sir Thomas Mallory (1405-1471) _Death of Arthur_ (1485)
Margery Kempe (1473-1438) Religious writings
16th Century (English Renaissance)
Thomas More (1478-1535) - _Utopia_ (1516)
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) - _The Fairy Queen_ (1590-6)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)- _Dr. Faustus_ (1592)
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) philisophical essays
Mary Sidney Herbert (1562-1621)
Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651)
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) _Eve's Apology in Defence of Women_ (1611)
Methaphysical Poets (1600-1640)
John Donne (1572-1631)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Geogre Herbert (1593-1633)
Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Restoration/Neoclassical (1660-1798)
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) _Leviathan_ (1651)
Milton (1608-1674) _Paradise Lost_ (1667)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Daniel DeFoe (1660-1731) _Robinson Crusoe_ (1717)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) _Gulliver's Travels_ (1726)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) _Essay on Criticism_ (1711)
_Essay on Man_ (1733)
Samual Johnson (1709-1784) _Dictonary_ (1747-55)
John Locke (1632-1704) _An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_
(1690)
Newton (1642-1727)
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) [female dramatist]
Anne Finsh (1661-1720)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) _Vidication of the Rights of Women_
(1742)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-84) African American in England
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ROYAL GENEOLOGY: (_Origins of the English Language_, Williams)
William the Conquerer 1066-1087 first Norman king
William II (1087-1100) laws written in Norman Fr.
Henry I (1100-1135) peaching in English
Stephen (1135-1154)
Henry II (1154-1189) "first king since William I to understand English"
Plantagenet Kings (1154-1377)
Richard I (lion-hearted) [1189-1199]
John I [1199-1216]
Henry III (1216-1233) "first public document in English in 200 years"
marries Eleanor of Provence - influx of sourthn Fr.
Barron's War -1258-65 Eng/FR Fr driven from Eng
Edward I (1272-1307)
Edward II (1307-1337) Beginning of Hundred Years' War with France
Edward III (1337-1377) earliest legal material written in Middle English
Lancastrian Kings (1377-1461) War of the Roses: cousins - Lancast. vs. York
Richard II (1377-1399)
Henry IV (1399-1413) first monolingual English king
Henry V (1413-1422) English victory at Agincourt
Henry VI (1422-
Yorkist Kings (1461-1485)
Edaward IV (-1485)
Richard III (1483-1485) defeated by Henry VII, first of the Tutors)
According to legend, killed 2 of his brothers, 2 nephews, + 2 kings
to get throne. "My kingdom for a horse," was reported
said before he was killed by Henry on Bosworth Field.
Tutors
Henry VII - 1485-1509 maried Richard's dau and united York and Lancaster
Henry VIII - 1509-1547 (founded Church of England)
Edward VI 1537-1553 (Prot.) son
Mary ("Blood Mary") 1553-1558 (Cat.) dau to Henry VIII by Catherine
Elizabeth I 1558-1603 (Prot.) "Spanish Armada" 1558
dau to Henry VIII by Anne Bolyn, second wife
Stuarts (Scottish background)
James I (1603-1625)
Charles I (1625-1640)- only English king to be beheaded
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR 1640-1660 - Cromwell Commonwealth
Charles II 1660-1685) (Restoration of the Stuarts)
James II (1685-1688)
Anne (1702-14) dau to James
House of Orange:
William III and Mary (1688-1702)
Hanover (German background)
George I (1714-27)
George II (1727-60)
George II (1760-1820)
Victoria (1820-1903)
100,000 Normans, mostly in cities (Williams, _Origins of the English Langauge_)
English mostly in the countryside.