British Literature

Beowulf

500

Date written is uncertain.

A History of the English Church and People

Apr 29, 700

Author: Bede

The Canterbury Tales

Apr 30, 1370

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Morte d' Arthur

Apr 30, 1470

Author: Sir Thomas Malory

Renaissance Period

Period: May 6, 1485 to May 6, 1625

Sonnet 1

May 6, 1575

Author: Edmund Spenser

Sonnet 29

May 6, 1593

Author: William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Macbeth

May 6, 1603

Author: William Shakespeare

King James Bible

May 6, 1611

Translated: King James

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Period: May 6, 1625 to May 6, 1798

Meditation 17

May 6, 1627

Author: John Donne

A Modest Proposal

May 6, 1729

Author: Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

May 6, 1735

Author: Jonathan Swift

Elegy Written in a COuntry Churchyard

May 6, 1751

Author: Thomas Gray

To a Mouse

May 6, 1785

Author: Robert Burns

The Lamb

May 6, 1789

Author: William Blake

Tintern Abbey

May 6, 1798

Author: William Wordsworth

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

May 6, 1798

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Romantic Period

Period: May 6, 1798 to May 6, 1832

Ozymandias

May 6, 1818

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ode to a Nightingale

May 6, 1819

Author: John Keats

Victorian Period

Period: May 6, 1833 to May 6, 1901

Charlotte Bronte

May 6, 1855

Jane Eyre

Charles Dickens

May 6, 1870

Hard Times

Robert Browning

May 6, 1889

My Last Duchess
Life in a Love

Alfred Lord Tennyson

May 6, 1892

Lady of Shalott
Ulysses

Modern and Postmodern Periods

Period: May 6, 1901 to May 6, 2010

Rupert Brooke

May 6, 1915

The Soldier

D.H. Lawrence

May 6, 1930

The Rocking Horse Winner

William Butler Yeats

May 6, 1939

When You Are Old
The Second Coming

George Orwell

May 6, 1950

Shooting an Elephant

T.S. Eliot

May 6, 1965

Preludes
The Hollow Men

The Exeter Book

Mar 2, 2022

Author: Alfred the Great

Old English/Medieval

Period: Mar 2, 2022 to Apr 29, 1485

Beginnings of English