Literature, poetry and philosophy in England

The period of Old English literature was always backed by the epic poem Beowulf, the secular prose of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is, along with Christian writings Judith, Caedmon's Hymn and hagiographies holy. After the Norman conquest Latin continued amongst the educated classes, as well as an Anglo-Norman literature. English literature emerged with Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, along with Gower, the Pearl Poet and Langland. The Franciscans, William of Ockham and Roger Bacon were major philosophers of the Middle Ages and the other ages. Julian of Norwich it was with her Revelations of Divine. Love was a prominent Christian mystic. During the Renaissance, William Shakespeare was the great exponent, with works such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and The Dream of a Summer Night, it remains one of the most championed authors in English literature. Marlowe, Spenser, Sydney, Thomas Kyd, John Donne, Jonson are other established authors of the Elizabethan age. Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes wrote on empiricism and materialism, including scientific method and social contract. Robert Filmer wrote about the divine right of kings. Andrew Marvell was the best known poet of the Community, while John Milton authored Paradise Lost during the Restoration it was.

Some of the most prominent philosophers of the Enlightenment were Locke, Paine, Johnson and Bentham. More radical elements were later countered by Edmund Burke who is regarded as the founder of conservatism. The poet Alexander Pope with his satirical verses, became well regarded. The English performance is a significant role in romanticism, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Shelley, Blake and Wordsworth were major figures. In response to the Industrial Revolution, the writers seemed to find a way between liberty and tradition; Cobbett, Chesterton and Belloc were main exponents Penty and cooperative movement advocate Cole. Empiricism continued through Mill and Russell, while Williams was involved in the analysis. The authors of the era of the Victorian era include Dickens, the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, Eliot, Kipling, Hardy, H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll and Evelyn Underhill. Since then England continued to produce novelists such as C. S. Lewis, Orwell, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Enid Blyton, Huxley, Christie, Pratchett, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling.