British Literature

  • Old English
    Apr 30, 600

    Old English

    500-1200
    Early form of English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons.
  • Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
    Apr 26, 1067

    Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

  • Gilgamesh
    Apr 30, 1200

    Gilgamesh

    2700 B.C. and around 600 B.C.
  • Middle English
    Apr 26, 1300

    Middle English

    1200-1600
    Describes dialects of English in the history of the English language between the High and Late Middle Ages, or roughly during the three centuries between the late 12th and the late 15th century.
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff
    Apr 30, 1340

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff

    1340-1400
  • Sonnet 31 by Sir Philip Sidney
    Apr 30, 1400

    Sonnet 31 by Sir Philip Sidney

    1400-1600
  • Sonnet 39 by Philip Sydney
    Apr 30, 1400

    Sonnet 39 by Philip Sydney

    1400-1600
  • The Renaissance
    Apr 30, 1400

    The Renaissance

    1400-1600
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    Apr 30, 1475

    The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

  • The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
    Apr 30, 1475

    The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

    One of the Canterbury Tales
  • The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
    Apr 30, 1475

    The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

    One of the Canterbury Tales.
  • Renaissance
    Jan 24, 1485

    Renaissance

    1485-1660
    It was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe.
  • The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

    1599
  • The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh

    The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh

    1600
  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare

    Macbeth by William Shakespeare

    1603-1607
  • Sonnet 29 William Shakespeare

    Sonnet 29 William Shakespeare

    1609
  • On My First Son

    On My First Son

    1616
  • Holy Sonnet 10 by John Donne

    Holy Sonnet 10 by John Donne

    1620
  • Barbara Allen

    Barbara Allen

    Folk Ballad
  • Romantic Age

    Romantic Age

    1800-1900
    was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
  • Lady of Shalott

    Lady of Shalott

    1809-1892
  • Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

    Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

    1819
  • The Second Coming

    The Second Coming

    1865-1939
  • Modern period

    Modern period

    the stage of the English language used from the beginning of the Tudor period until the English Interrugnum and Restoration, or from the trasition from Middle English to late 15th century to the trasition to Modern English during the mid to late 17th century.
  • T.S. Eliot

    T.S. Eliot

    1905-1965
  • Get Up and Bar the Door by David Herd

    Get Up and Bar the Door by David Herd

    1909-1914
  • The Seafarer by Burton Raffel

    The Seafarer by Burton Raffel

  • The Rocking Horse Winner

    The Rocking Horse Winner

    1926
  • The Wanderer by Charles W. Kennedy

    The Wanderer by Charles W. Kennedy

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

    Animal Farm by George Orwell

    1945
  • Beowulf

    Beowulf

    800-1200