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Beowulf
Epic heroic poem, of a great legendary warrior know for his courage, strength and dignity. Thought as the national epic of England. Author unknown -
Apr 30, 673
Venerable Bede
Greatest of Englands Latin scholars (673-735)
Well-known for - A History of the English Church and People -
Apr 30, 1386
Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
Each character tells a tale on the way to Canterbury, only 24 of the projected 120 were told, but together they stand as a complete work. -
May 4, 1405
Sir Thomas Malory
(1405-1471) wrote Sir Sawain and the Green Knight
Spent more of his life in prison, for reasons that are still debated today. -
Period: Apr 30, 1485 to
English Renaissance Period
One of the most exciting periods in history. Scholars act out against the "dark ages". Wanted the rebirth of civilization . -
May 4, 1552
Sonnets: Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare
Series of sonnets that fit together loosely to form a story.
Sonnets are 14 lines normally in iambic pentameter.
Sidney; Astrophel and Stella
Spenser; Armoretti
Shakespeare; greastes dramatist, created new rhyme scheme (abab cdcd efef gg), forming the Shakespearean sonnet- four quatrains and a closing couplet. -
May 6, 1554
Christopher Marlowe & Sir Walter Raleigh
(1554-1618): Sir Walter Raleigh
wrote- the nymph's Reply to the Sheperd (1564-1593): Christopher Marlowe
wrote- the Passionate Shepherd to his Love -
Macbeth
Written by Shakespeare in the early 1600's hee took ideads from Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland and mixed the stories together -
King James Bible
Created at the command of King James I, he commissioned 54 scholars and clergymen to compare all known texts of the Bible. -
Period: to
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Period of Enlightenment -
Ben Jonson
(1572-1673)
wrote- On My First Son -
Alexander Pope
(1688-1744)
wrote- The Rape of the Lock (1712-1714)
Great satirist, gave his name to the literary era in which he wrote, which is now called the Age of Pope and Swift. -
Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784)
In 1746 he began work on his Dictionary of the English Language and it ook him nine years to finish. -
Gullivers Travels
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
The Scriblerus Club, encouraged Swift to write a series of amusing journeys because they knew he enjoyed reading travel books. -
A Modest Proposal
By Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Last essay he wrote to call attention to the plight of the Irish. -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Written by Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
His first important poem and best-known poem. -
To a Mouse: Robert Burns
(1759-1796) known as " The Voice of Scotland"
In 1786 published his first collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Included "To a Mouse"
Most of his poems are writting in dialect. -
The Lamb
William Blake (1757-1827)
From series of poems, Songs of Innocence.(1789) -
TheTyger
William Blake (1757-1827)
part of a series of poems, Songs of Experience (1794) -
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Written by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Wordsworth visited this church five years earlier alone, but the next time he brought his sister along.On the visist that inspired this poem William said, " No poem of mine was composed under circumstances more pleasant for one to remember than this." -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samual Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
In 1798 Coleridge and Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads, a mix of their works. " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was inlclued as a part of Coleridge's contributions. -
Period: to
The Romantic Period
Began as a rebel against the Enlightenment era. -
She Walks in Beauty
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Bryon created brooding figures whose ironic attitude and hidden sorrow only added to their charm, this figure became known as a Byronic hero. -
Frankenstein
Written by Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
Mary, her husband, poet Lord Byron and another friend challeneged each other to write ghost stories. Mary's version became the full-length novel Frankenstein. Which was first published in 1818, -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822)
Wrote Ozymandias-Ode to the West Wind-To a Skylark
Often referred to as the perfect poet of the Romantic Era. -
Poerty of John Keats
John Keats (1795-1821)
In 1819 he wrote some of his most famous poems, "The Eve of St. Agnes", "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and his odes. All are considered to be masterpieces. -
The Lady of Shalott
written by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -
Period: to
Victorian Period
The Literature relfects the rise and fall of British power during the Victorian era. -
Robert Browning & Elizabeth Barret Browning
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Wrote "My Last Duchess"
Elizabeth Browing (1806-1861)
Wrote-Sonner 43 -
Jane Eyre
Written by Charlotter Bronte (1816-1855)
Her boarding-school experiences gave her material for the story. -
In Memoriam, A.H.H.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Series of short poems that considered questions of death, religious faith, and immortality. This series grew for over 17 years and was published in 1850. -
Hard Times
By Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Other popular works, Oliver Twist(1839), David Cooperfield(1850) -
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1844-1889)
wrote- God's Grandeur, Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
none of his works were published till 1918 -
A. E. Houseman
(1859-1936)
wrote- To an Athlete Dying Young & When I Was One-and Twenty -
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave
By Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
His poetry marke the transition from Victorian verse to the modern movement. -
Period: to
The Modern and Postmodern Periods
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The Soldier
By- Rupert Brooke (188701915) -
William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939)
wrote- When You Are Old, THe Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Second Coming, and Sailing to Byzantium
won noble prize in 1923 -
T.S. Eliot
(1888-1965)
wrote Preludes, Journey of the Magi, and The Hollow Men -
George Orwell
(1903-1950)
wrote- Shooting an Elephant -
Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941)
wrote- The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection -
Stevie Smith
(1902-1971)
wrote-Not Waving but Drowning -
The Anglo-Saxon Chronincle
(A.D. 871-899) Put together by a group of monks. They used parts of Bede's History, existing chronologies, family trees, and other historic documents. Following two centuries, monks added news to the Chronicle ranging from gossip to the battles of kings. -
Period: to Apr 29, 1484
Old English
Beginning of English periods
