English Literature, Grammar and more

•••ENGLISH TIMELINE••• c.600 BC Britain cut off from continental Europe by English Channel... 👉 Before English: c.5000 BC Proto-Indo-Europeans living in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. c.1000 BC Germanic Indo-European tribes living in parts of modern-day Germany. c.500 BC Celts inhabit much of Europe, and beginning to colonize the British Isles. 55 BC First Roman raids on Britain under Julius Caesar. 43 AD Roman occupation of Britain under Emperor Claudius (beginning of Roman rule of Britain). 410-436 Roman withdrawal from Britain. c.450 Anglo-Saxon settlement (Angles, Frisians, Saxons, Jutes) of Britain begins..... 😊 👉 Old English: 450-480 Earliest Old English inscriptions. 597 St. Augustine arrives in Britain (beginning of Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons). c.600 Anglo-Saxon language covers most of modern-day England. c.660 “Cædmon's Hymn” composed in Old English. 731 The Venerable Bede writes “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People” (in Latin). 792 Viking ...

Beginning of English Literature *********** Before going through the English Literature in brief let us discuss on the early inhabitants of Britain and the early invasion still the settlement of the Anglo-Saxons. Paleoliths:- ****** In the Paleolithic Age a rude primitive race lived within a strict limited area perhaps near the river Tames. They generally used tomahawk, a stone with a butt, and hand daggers with a hollowed place for the thumb as their weapons. Neoliths:- ******* They were dark, curly haired, narrow-headed dwarfish men. They succeeded the Paleoliths. They speeded all over the country and possessed it until the Celts ran their keels ashore upon the gravels and sands of Kent. The Goidels or the Gaels:- ********* Around 600 B.C. the first Celtic invasion came from the Central Europe. They are known as the Goidels or the Gaels.They drove the inhabitants to the West and North but ultimately intermingled with them. Brythons:- ******** Around 300 B.C. ...