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555
The Wanderer
Translated by Charles W. Kennedy -
May 7, 607
The Wife's Lament
Translated by Ann Stanford -
May 7, 666
Beowulf
Translated by Burton Raffel -
May 9, 732
from Gilgamesh The Prologue
Translated by David Ferry -
May 9, 754
from The Canterbury Tales The Prologue
Geoffrey Chaucer Translated by Nevill Coghill -
May 9, 1023
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Translated by Marie Boroff -
May 9, 1164
Morte d' Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory -
May 9, 1251
Twa Corbies
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May 9, 1342
Get Up and Bar the Door
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May 9, 1343
Geoffrey Chaucer
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May 9, 1442
Barbara Allan
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May 9, 1477
Sir Thomas More
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May 9, 1485
Sonnet 1
by Edmund Spenser -
Period: May 9, 1485 to
1485-1625 Celebrating Humanity
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May 9, 1486
Sonnet 35
by Edmund Spenser -
May 9, 1487
Sonnet 75
by Edmund Spenser -
May 9, 1488
Utopia
by Sir Thomas More -
May 9, 1510
Sonnet 31
by Sir Philip Sidney -
May 9, 1511
Sonnet 39
Sir Philip Sidney -
May 9, 1520
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
by Christopher Marlowe -
May 9, 1530
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
by Sir Walter Raleigh -
May 9, 1552
Edmund Spenser
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May 9, 1554
Sir Philip Sidney
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May 9, 1554
Sir Walter Raleigh
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May 9, 1564
Christopher Marlowe
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May 9, 1564
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is born -
May 9, 1565
Sonnet 29
by William Shakespeare -
May 9, 1566
Sonnet 106
by William Shakespeare -
May 9, 1567
Sonnet 116
by William Shakespeare -
May 9, 1568
Sonnet 130
by William Shakespeare -
May 9, 1572
John Donne
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May 9, 1572
Ben Jonson
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Robert Herrick
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John Milton
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Sir John Suckling
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The King James Bible
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Psalm 23
from The King James Bible -
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
from The King James Bible -
The Tragedy of Macbeth
by William Shakespeare -
Andrew Marvell
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Period: to
1625-1798 A Turbulent Time
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Song
by John Donne -
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
by John Donne -
Holy Sonnet 10
by John Donne -
Meditation 17
by John Donne -
On My First Son
by Ben Jonson -
Song: To Celia
by Ben Jonson -
To His Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell -
Johnathon Swift
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
by Robert Herrick -
Song
by Sir John Suckling -
Paradise Lost
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Rape of the Lock
by Alexander Pope -
from Gulliver's Travels
by Johnathon Swift -
Thomas Gray
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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A Modest Proposal
by Johnathon Swift -
William Blake
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Robert Burns
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Joanna Baillie
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William Wordsworth
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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To a Mouse
by Robert Burns -
George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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John Keats
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Period: to
1798-1832 Rebels and Dreamers
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The Lamb
by William Blake -
The Tyger
by William Blake -
Introduction to Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
by William Wordsworth -
The World is Too Much With Us
by William Wordsworth -
Robert Browning
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Charles Dickens
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London, 1802
by William Wordsworth -
Charlotte Bronte
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The Time Of The Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
She Walks In Beauty
by George Gordon, Lord Byron -
Matthew Arnold
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Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Ode to the West Wind
by Percy Bysshe Shelley -
To a Skylark
by Percy Bysshe Shelley -
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
by John Keats -
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
by John Keats -
Ode to a Nightengale
by John Keats -
Ode On A Grecian Urn
by John Keats -
In Memoriam, A.H.H.
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
Period: to
1833-1901 Progress and Decline
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The Lady Of Shalott
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
Ulysses
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
My Last Duchess
by Robert Browning -
Thomas Hardy
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Love Among The Ruins
by Robert Browning -
Sonnet 43
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens -
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte -
Dover Beach
by Matthew Arnold -
Rudyard Kipling
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William Butler Yeats
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Recessional
by Rudyard Kipling -
Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?
by Thomas Hardy -
T.S. Eliot
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To an Athlete Dying Young
by A.E. Housman -
When You Are Old
by William Butler Yeats -
Period: to
1901-Present A Time of Rapid Change
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George Orwell
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The Second Coming
by William Butler Yeats -
The Hollow Men
by T.S. Eliot -
Shooting an Elephant
by George Orwell -
The Soldier
by Rupert Brooke -
The Seafarer
Translated by Burton Raffel -
from The Pardoner's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer translated by Nevill Coghill -
The Wife of Bath's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer Translated by Nevill Coghill -
Period: to May 7, 1485
449-1485 A.D. From Legend to History
