TABLES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, WRITERS. (Author unknown.) CAEDMON. A secular monk of Whitby. Died about 680. BAEDA. 672-735. "The Venerable Bede," a monk of Jarrow-on-Tyne. ALFRED THE 849-901. King; translator; prose-writer. Translated into the English The University 800 of Wessex, Bede's Ecclesi- Compiled by monks Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 875in various monaster 1154. of Oxford is said to have History of King Edward V., and of his brother, and of Richard III. (1513); Utopia (= "The Land of Nowhere"), written in Latin; and other prose works. Lyndesay's Dream(1528); The Complaint (1529); A Satire of the Three Estates (1535) -a "morality-play." Toxophilus (1544), a treatise on shooting with the bow; The Scholemastre (1570). "Ascham is plain and strong in his style, but without grace or warmth." The Book of Martyrs (1563), Richard III. ascends the throne, 1483. Battle of Bosworth, 1485. Henry VII. as cends the throne, 1485. Greek began to be taught in England about 1497. Henry VIII. as- 1500 cends the throne, 1509. Battle of Flodden, 1513. Wolsey Cardinal and Lord High Chancellor, 1515. an account of the chief Pro-Sir Thomas More testant martyrs. Shepheard's Calendar (1579); Faerie Queene, in six books (1590-96). first layman] who was Lord High Chancellor, 1529. Reformation England begins about 1534. Edward VI. as cends the throne, 1547. Mary Tudor ascends the throne, 1553. History of the World (1614), Cranmer burnt, 1550 written during the author's imprisonment in the Tower of London. Essays (1597); Advancement Hawkins begins 1560 Organum (1620); and other slave trade in Rizzio murdered, THOMAS HOBBES. 1588-1679. Philosopher; prose writer; translator of Homer. The Leviathan (1651), a Battle of Ivry, 1590 work on politics and moral 1590. |