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The term English literature refers to literature written in the modern English language or its antecedents, or literature composed in English by writers who are not from England.
English literature emerged as a recognisable entity only in the medieval period, when the English language itself became distinct from the Norman and Anglo-Saxon dialects which preceded it (see Old English poetry). The first great identifiable individual in English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, wrote the Canterbury Tales, a popular work of the period which readers still enjoy today.
The following two centuries continued a huge outpouring of literary production, including novels, poetry, and drama. All of these forms remain strong in the present-day English literary culture.
Norton Anthology of English Literature (http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/welcome.htm)
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology (http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html) Ed. José Ángel García Landa, (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
English destroyer remained for a time almost entirely apart, though they and their literature were afterwards to have no small influence upon the literary development of England.
English people when they were still heathen and before they came to Britain, even though the poem may not have been actually put together in its present form until the ninth or tenth century.
English; it was the tongue, then as now, of the Church, and it was the medium for communication between scholars and the language of nearly all books of scholarship.
The term Englishliterature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian.
The literature of the period is overtly political and thoroughly aware of critical dictates for literature.
Literature for children was published during the Victorian period, some of which has become globally well-known, such as the work of Lewis Carroll who was a proponent of nonsense verse, as was Edward Lear.
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