-
500
The Seafarer
Burton Raffel, Translator -
520
from Gilgamesh The Prologue
David Ferry, Translator -
550
The Wanderer
Charles W. Kennedy, Translator -
570
The Wife's Lament
Ann Stanford, Translator -
Jan 3, 750
Beowulf
The Wrath of Grendel,
The Coming of Beowulf,
The Battle with Grendel,
The Monster's Lair,
The Battle with Grendel's Mother,
The Last Battle,
The Spoils,
The Farewell, *Epic -
May 5, 1200
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Marie Borroff, Translator -
May 5, 1300
Anonymous
Twa Corbies,
Lord Randall,
Get Up and Bar the Door,
Barbara Allan -
Period: Jan 1, 1485 to
The English Renaissance Period
-
May 5, 1486
Edmund Spencer
Sonnet 1,
Sonnet 35,
Sonnet 75 -
May 5, 1500
Sir Phillip Sidney
Sonnet 31,
Sonnet 39 -
May 5, 1550
The Passionate Shepard to His Love
Christopher Marlowe -
May 5, 1580
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard
Sir Walter Raleigh -
William Shakespeare
Sonney 29,
Sonnet 106,
Sonnet 116,
Sonnet 130,
The Tragedy of Macbeth -
Franscesco Petrarch
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 28 -
Commissioned by King James
from The King James Bible
Psalm 23
from The Sermon on the Mount
The Parable of the Prodigal Son -
Period: to
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
-
John Donne
Song,
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,
Holy Sonnet 10,
Meditation 17 -
Ben Jonson
On My First Son,
Song: To Celia -
Johnathan Swift
from Gulliver's Travels,
from a Voyage to Liliput,
A Modest Proposal -
from The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
Anne Fitch, Countess -
Period: to
The Romantic Period
-
To a Mouse
Robert Burns -
William Blake
The Lamb,
The Tiger -
William Wordsworth
Tintern Abbey,
from The Prelude,
The World is Too Much With Us,
London, 1802 -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Time of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan -
George Gordon/ Lord Byron
She Walks In Beauty,
from Don Juan -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias,
Ode to the West Wind,
To a Skylark -
John Keats
When I Have Fears I May Cease to Be,
Ode to a Nightingale,
Ode on a Grecian Urn -
Period: to
The Victorian Period
-
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from In Memorian, A.H.H.,
The Lady of Shalott,
Ulysses -
Robert Browning
My Last Dutchess,
Life in a Love,
Love Among the Ruins, -
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
from Hard Times
Charles Dickens -
from Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte -
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold -
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
Thomas Hardy -
God's Grandger
Gerald Manley Hopkins -
A.E. Housman
To an Athlete Dying Young,
When I Was One-and-Twenty -
E.E. Cummings
anyone lived in a pretty how town -
Period: to
The Modern and Postmodern Periods
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William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old,
The Second Coming,
Sailing to Byzantium -
T.S Eliot
Preludes,
Journey of the Magi,
The Hollow Men, -
Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell -
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke -
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas -
from the Iliad Book XIX
The Battle of Hektor and Achilles,
Epic Poem,
Homer -
from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anne Savage, Translator -
Geoffrey Chaucer
from The Canterbury Tales,
The Prologue,
from The Pardoners Tale,
The Wife of Bath's Tale -
from Morte d' Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory -
Period: to Jan 1, 1485
The Old English and Megieval Periods
