Dates of First Publication for texts in Literature

  • London by William Blake

    Published in collection of poems entitled Songs of Experience
    Exact date unknown
  • London, 1802 by William Wordsworth published

    Published in "Poems, Two Volumes"
    Exact date of publication unknown
  • Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey published

    Published posthumously in late December, exact date unclear.
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is published

  • Ozymandias by Percy Bysse Shelley published

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass published

    exact date and month unknown
  • Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats published

    Exact date unknown
  • Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre publsihed

  • "Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman published

    Published in "Leaves of Grass", a collection of 12 untitled poems, of which this was the first
    Exact publication date unknown
  • "Much madness is divinest sense" by Emily Dickinson published

    Exact date unknown
  • "I'm nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson published

    Exact date unknown
  • "A charm invests a face" by Emily Dickinson published

    Exact date unknown
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde published

    exact date and month unknown
  • "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound published

    Exact date of publication unknown
  • "Some Imagist Poets" by Amy Lowell published

    Exact publication date unknown
  • "Sea Rose" by H.D published

    Exact date of publication unknown
  • Ulysses by James Joyce published

    Calypso was published earlier in the Little Review in 1918
  • "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" by Virginia Woolf published

    "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" by Virginia Woolf published
    Exact publication date unknown
  • "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" by Emily Dickinson published

    Exact date unknown
  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys published

    exact date and month unknown
  • "On the Abolition of the English Department" by Ngugi wa Thiong'o published

    Exact date of publication unknown
  • Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction by Ann Banfield

  • Toward an Aesthetic of Reception by Hans Robert Jauss published

    Exact date unknown
  • "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" by Judith Butler published

    Exact publication date unknown
  • Gifts by Nuruddin Farah published

    some sources say 1993
  • Modernism by Peter Childs published

    Exact date of publication unknown
  • A Semiprivate Room by Ellen Rooney published

    published in Spring, exact date unclear
  • A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon published

  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel published

  • Uses of Literature by Rita Felski published

    Introduction read for class