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Apr 30, 731
A History of the English Church and People
Written by the Venerable Bede in 731 -
Apr 29, 750
Beowulf
Surviving version of Beowulf composed around this year -
Apr 30, 1375
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
This year is when the surviving version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was writen. -
Apr 30, 1386
The Canterbury Tales is started
In 1386 Chaucer Began writing The Canterbury Tales -
Apr 30, 1470
Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory wrote Morte d'Arthur in 1470 -
Period: Apr 29, 1485 to
The English Renaissance Period
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May 10, 1580
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spencer wrote Sonnet 1, Sonnet 35, and Sonnet 75 -
May 10, 1580
Sir Phillip Sidney
Wrote Sonnet 31 and Sonnet 39 -
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Poem by Christopher Marlowe -
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Satirical reply to "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" -
Shakespeare
Wrote great poems such as Sonnet 29, Sonnet 106, Sonnet 116, and Sonnet 130 -
On My First Son
Wrote by Ben Johson sometime after his son's death in 1603 -
Macbeth
Tragedy by Shakespeare. Written sometime between 1603 and 1607 -
Period: to
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Meditation 17
By John Donne -
from A Journal of the Plague Year
By Daniel Defoe -
from Gulliver's Travels
A famous novel written by Jonathin Swift -
A Modest Proposal
Satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729 -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Written by Thomas Gray in 1742 -
To a Mouse
Written by Robert Burns after he upturned a mouse's home while plowing the fields in 1785. -
from The Prelude
by William Wordsworth -
William Blake
William wrote "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" in 1789 and 1794, respectively. -
Period: to
The Romantic Period
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Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
By William Wordsworth in 1798 -
The Rime of the Anchient Mariner
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge for "Lyrical Ballads" in 1798 -
John Keats' Poems
Includes: on First Looking into Chapman's Homer, "When I Have Fears I May Cease to Be", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" -
Introduction to Frankenstein
Written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
By John Keats -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley wrote "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", and "To a Skylark" in 1820 -
Period: to
The Victorian Period
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My Last Duchess
Published by Robert Browning sometime around 1845 -
from Jane Eyre
novel by Charlotte Bronte written in 1847 -
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Wrote In "Memoriam, A.H.H.", "The Lady of Shalott", and "Ulysses" around 1850 -
Sonnet 43
By Elizabeth Browning in 1850 -
from Hard Times
By Charles Dickens. Novel writen in 1854 -
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
Thomas Hardy sometime in the 1860's wrote "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" -
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold wrote "Dover Beach" in 1867 -
God's Grandeur
Written by Gerard Manley Hopkins -
A. E. Housman
Wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young" and "When I Was One-and Twenty" around 1895 -
Period: to
The Modern and Postmodern Periods
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The Soldier
Written by Rupert Brooke -
The Second Coming
This poem by William Butler Yeats vividly expresses the idea that history occurs in a 2000 year cycle and the next cycle is the opposite of the current. -
The Hollow Men
Poem by T.S. Eliot that described how he felt about modern society. -
When You Are Old
William Butler Yeats Published "When You Are Old" somewhere around 1928. -
Sailing to Byzantium
Poem by William Butler Yeats -
Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell wrote this essay somewhere around 1928-1934. -
Not Waving But Drowning
Publisehed by Stevie Smith c.1950. -
Exeter Book
Around 975 Saxon monks copied Old English poems into "The Exeter Book" -
Period: to Apr 29, 1485
The Old English and Medieval Periods
Beginings
