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Timeline of English Language and Literature

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Timeline of English Language and Literature

* indicates works written in English or authors who wrote in English

Old English (500-1100)

• Beowulf* (composed sometime during the Old English period)

Middle English (1100-1500)

• Geoffrey of Monmouth(1130s)
• Wace (1150s)
• Marie de France (1180s)
• La3amon* (c. 1200)
• Chaucer* (1380s-1400)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight* (1380s-1400)

Modern English (1500-)