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The date it was written is uncertain.
Written by: an unknown author.
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Born 673 and later died 735.
Also known as "the Venerable (Respected) Bede."
"Helped originate the dating of events from the birth of Christ, a cornerstone of the Western calendar."
Wrote "from A History of the English Chruch and People"
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"Canterbury Tales is actually a story about stories...."
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"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in for and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel!" -William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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Died in 1586.
a true "Renaissance Man."
Attended both Oxford and Cambridge.
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Died in 1618.
Wrote "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd". -
Died in 1593.
Killed before the age of thirty.
wrote "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" -
"He was not of an age, but for all time!"
Wrote "On My First Son", "Still to Be Neat" etc. -
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"Methinks I see in my mind a noble....nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks" -John Milton, from Areopagitica
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Born around 1572, John Donne was a clever writer of love poems.
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"Circa 1640"
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Died in 1731.
"A false, shuffling, prevaricating rascal" - fellow author Joseph Addison described Defoe.
Defoe wrote great novels such as "from A Journal of the Plague Year". -
Died in 1745.
Wrote "Gulliver's Travels", and "A Modest Proposal". -
Born in 1608, John Milton was regarded as one of the greatest poets of the english language.
He wrote many great poems and stories such as "Paradise Lost". -
Born in 1716, Gray was the only surviving child of his siblings.
He wrote poems like "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". -
Born in 1709.
Wrote "from A Dictionary of the English Language". -
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Also known as the Romantic Period.
"Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher." -William Wordsworth, from "The Tables Turned" -
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"In order that people may be happy in their work, thesenthree things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it." -John Ruskin, from Pre-Raphaelitism
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Born in 1809.
Wrote "from In Memoriam, A.H.H." -
"We are living at one of the great turning points of history...Yesterday, we split the atom. We assaulted that colossal citadel of power, the tiny unit of the substance of the universe. And because of this, the great dream and the great nightmare of centuries of human thought have taken flesh and walk beside us all, day and night." -Doris Lessing, from "The Small, Personal Voice."
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Born in 1865.
Wrote great poems such as "When You Are Old" and "The Second Coming". -
Born in 1888.
Wrote poems such as "Journey of the Magi" and "The Hollow Men" -
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Beginings of English.
Perils and Adventures.