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The epic poem Beowulf was composed in 750.
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1343-1400
Chaucer is most famous for his work, The Canterbury Tales. -
Most exciting and dynamic times in British history.
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Was known for The King James Bible and Psalm 23.
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Edmund Spenser is known for creating the sonnet form, known as the Spenserian sonnet.
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Famous sonnets from Sir Philip Sidney are Sonnet 31 and Sonnet 39.
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Shakespeares most famous works are Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet.
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Known for his poem, "Song"
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This timespan was known for the beheading of a king and the abolishment of the monarchy.
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His famous works are, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnet 10, Meditation 17.
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His famous work we read was, "from Gulliver's Travels" and "A Modest Proposal."
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Famous for his works, "The Rape of Lock" (1712-1214) and "An Essay on Criticism" (1711).
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from A Dictionary of the English Language, from The Preface.
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
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The Lamb and The Tyger.
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To a Mouse.
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Tintern Abbey, from The Prelude.
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The Rime of the Ancient Marnier.
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Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark.
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When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be, Ode To a Nightingale, and Ode on a Grecian Urn.
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Introduction to Frankenstein.
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Classicism and rationalism were redfined and changed dramatically in this time period.
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Sonnet 43.
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from In Memoriam, A.H.H., The Lady of Shalott.
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My Last Duchess.
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from Hard Times.
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from Jane Erye.
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Booming economy and rapid expansion.
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"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
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God's Grandeur.
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To an Athlete Dying Young and When I Was One-and-Twenty.
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When You Are Old and The Second Coming.
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The Soldier.
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Preludes and The Hollow Men.
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Science and technology increased during this time period.
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Shooting an Elephant.
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Beginnings of English Literature
