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English Article 4
A Short History of English Literature
English literature has a rich history spanning over a thousand years.
It began with Anglo-Saxon works like Beowulf, reflecting early English culture. After the Norman Conquest, writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer in the Middle English period depicted medieval life in The Canterbury Tales.
The Elizabethan era, known as the Golden Age, produced William Shakespeare’s timeless plays and poems.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, authors like John Milton and Jonathan Swift explored religion, politics, and society.
The nineteenth century brought novelists such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and the Brontë sisters, who examined social and personal themes.
In the twentieth century, modernists like Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot experimented with new styles. Today, writers from around the world, including Chinua Achebe and Arundhati Roy, continue to expand and enrich English literature.
English literature has a long and interesting history.
It started more than a thousand years ago in the Anglo-Saxon time when stories like Beowulf was written.
The Elizabethan era was called the golden age of English literature because William Shakespeare’s plays became popular all over the world.
In the 1600s and 1700s, writers like John Milton and Jonathan Swift wrote about religion, society and human nature.
Later, in the 1800s, authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and the Brontë sisters talked about love, family, class and the problems people faced in real life.
In the 1900s, writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce started to write in new and creative ways to show people’s thoughts and feelings.
Today, English literature keep growing with writers from many different countries.
They bring new ideas, stories and voices that show the world from many points of view. English literature is still important because it help us understand people, history and life better.
After 1066, during the Middle English period, writers like Geoffrey Chaucer made famous works such as The Canterbury Tales.
