17/05/2022
1.Caedmon,Today is the feast day of Caedmon, the first known English poet. As well as being the first named poet in the English literary tradition, he is also a significant figure in the history of people who hate singing in public, people who develop new talents later in life, and of cowherds
2. Beowulf,Among those few is the great epic poem "Beowulf. It is the oldest known English epic poem, the foundation stone of the British poetry. It is the greatest piece of literature of the Anglo-Saxons.
3. Sappho. A archaic Greek poet from the 6th century BCE, Sappho is considered to be by many the first female writer. Not only is her work celebrated today, in antiquity she was a celebrated artist
4. Daniel Defoe,Author Ian Watt, and many others for that matter, usually credit Daniel Defoe as being the author of the first English novel (Chapt. 3). The first novel is usually credited to be Defoe's Robinson Crusoe which was first published in 1719 (Lee).
5. Aphra Behn,The First Professional English Woman Writer.
6. Robinson Crusoe,The first novel is usually credited to be Defoe's Robinson Crusoe which was first published in 1719 (Lee). The novel is about a man, Crusoe, who spent 28 years on a deserted island and the adventures in which he encountered while on the island.
7. The first English tragedy, Gorboduc (1561), by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, is a chain of slaughter and revenge written in direct imitation of Seneca.
8.Christopher Marlow is called the faher of English Tragedy.