British Lit

By tdawson
  • History of the english Church and people
    Apr 30, 700

    History of the english Church and people

    the writter was Bede who lived from 673 to 735
  • Beowulf
    Apr 29, 750

    Beowulf

    not sure what date it was written
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Night
    Apr 30, 1000

    Sir Gawain and the Green Night

    written by Sir Thomas Malory in these stories they were about chivalry and they told of stories how men should treat women
  • Morte d' Arthur
    May 6, 1000

    Morte d' Arthur

    written by Sir Thomas Malory
  • The Canterbury Tales
    Apr 30, 1073

    The Canterbury Tales

    Englands religious center and was written by Geoffrey Chaucer who lived from 1343 to 1400
  • Letters to Margaret Paston
    Apr 30, 1484

    Letters to Margaret Paston

    these were written by Margaret Paston who lived from 1423 to 1484
  • Period: May 6, 1485 to

    The English Renaissance Period

    this was the time that Celebrating Humanity
  • Macbeth
    May 6, 1570

    Macbeth

    this was written by William Shakespeare
  • Sir Philip Sidney

    Sir Philip Sidney

    Sonnet 31 & Sonnet 39 were written by him
  • William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare

    his time period was also through 1594 his sonnets were sonnet 29, sonnet 106, sonnet 116, and sonnet 130
  • The Passionate Shepherd to his love

    The Passionate Shepherd to his love

    the writter was Christopher Marlowe who was born in 1564 and 1593
  • The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

    The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

    the writter was Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Period: to

    A Turbulent Time

    the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • On My First Son

    On My First Son

    it was around this time that it was written
  • A Modest Proposal

    A Modest Proposal

    this was written by Jonthan Swift and it was making fun of how the upper class treated the lower class
  • A Journal of the Plague Year

    A Journal of the Plague Year

    this was written by Daniel Defoe
  • Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

    this was written by Jonathan Swift and it critized the way that the british treated some people. in this time
  • Elegy Written In a country churchyard

    Elegy Written In a country churchyard

    this was written by Thomas Gray
  • To a mouse

    To a mouse

    this is written by the man named robert burns
  • William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth

    Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tntern Abbey
  • A Dictionary of the English Language

    this was written by James Boswell
  • Period: to

    Rebels and Dreamers

    The Romantic Period
  • She Walks In Beauty

    She Walks In Beauty

    this was wrote by George Gordon
  • Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    wrote by Mary Shelly
  • Jhon Keats

    (1795-1821)
    On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
  • Ozymandias

    This was wrote by Percy Bysshe
  • William Blake

    William Blake

    (1757-1827) the lamb, the tyger, and the chimney Sweper
  • Period: to

    Progress and Decline

  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    wriiten by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Jayne Eyre

    Jayne Eyre

    written by Charlotte Bronte
  • Dover Beach

    Dover Beach

    Matthew Arnold
  • Hard Times

    Charles Dickens
  • Ah, are you diggin on my grave

    written by Thomas Hard
  • Robert Browning

    Robert Browning

    My Last Duchess
    Life in Love
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson

    In Memoriam
    The Lady of Shalott
    Ulyssess
  • Period: to

    A time of Rapid Change

  • Wiliam Butler Yeats

    The Secound Coming
    When you are old
    sailing to byzantium
  • The Soldier

    written by Rupert Brooke
  • A.E. Housman

    A.E. Housman

    To An Athlete Dying Young
    When i was one and twenty
  • George Orwell

    shooting an Elephant
  • T.S. Eliot

    T.S. Eliot

    Journey of the Magi
    The Hollow Men
  • In mEmory of W.B. Yeats

    written by W.H. Auden
  • The Pardoner's Tale

    was written with in the cantabury tales
  • Meditation 17

    this was written by John Donne
  • The Rape of the Lock

    this is wrote by Alexander Pope and it is making fun of the upper class
  • Four Ballads

    they were Get up and Bar the door, Lord Randall, and Two Carlies
  • The Exter Book

    The Exter Book

    Saxon monks copy of Old Poetry, also contains the Seafarer, the wanderer, and also the wife's lament
  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

    the region was over taken by King Alfred's region a group of monks
  • Period: to Apr 27, 1485

    Old English and Medieval

    The Beginnings of English