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Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1485
Middle Ages 1
- 750 Beowolf composed-One of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon
- 1343 Birth of Chaucer-author of Canterbury Tales
- 1327-1377 The reign of King Edward III; During his ruling, Chaucer is placed as a page in one of the great aristocratic households to aquire manner of the ruling class
- 1387-89 Chaucer working on the Canterbury Tale
- 1405 Birth of Sir Thomas Malory-Author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur
- 1455 Johann Gutenberg prints the first of his Bible on his new printing press
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Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1485
Middle Ages 2
- 1470 Sir Thomas Malory in prison working on Morte Darthur
- 1476 Introduction of the printing press to England by William Caxton
- 1485 Caxton publishes Morte Darthur, on the the first books in Cnglish to be printed
- 1483 Birth of Martin Luther- He is famous for beginning the reformation.
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Jan 1, 700
The Dream of the Rood
Anglo-Saxon Literature, neither its author nor its date of composition is known. Found on the 8th century, the finest of a rather large number of religious poems in Old English. -
Jan 1, 1386
Chaucer's Retraction
1386-1400 -
Jan 1, 1387
Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer's work was probably conceived in 1386.
-Pardoner's Prologue and Tale -
Jan 1, 1485
Morte Darthur-Sir Thomas Malory
Morte Darthur is the title that William Caxton, the first English printer, gave to Malory's volume. from "The Norton Anthology English Literature" -
Period: Jan 1, 1485 to
Sixteenth Century 2
- 1564 Birth of William Shakespear- greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
- 1572 Birth of John Donne- English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets.
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada-defeated by the English fleet
- 1576 James Burbage builds The Theatre, the first permanent public playhouse in London, opening the great age of Elizabethan drama.-Wikipedi
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Period: Jan 1, 1485 to
The Sixteenth Century 1
1.1509 The reign of Henry VIII of England begins- He starts the reformation in England
2. 1517 Martin Luther's Wittenberg These; beginning of the Reformation
3. 1552 Birth of of Edmund Spenser- the great English poet of his age
4. 1558The reign of Queen Elizabeth I begins- She is one of the most powerful women of the 16th century.
5.1590 Spenser travels to England and publishes The Faerie Queene (with Books 1-3)
6. 1525 William Tyndale's English translation of the New Testament -
From Amoretti-Edmund Spencer
Sonnet 1, 34, 54, 64, 67, 75, 79 -
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Published in 1599, 6year after the poet's death. -
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618) -
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The Early Seventeenth Century 1
1.1616 English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
2.1640 King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
3.1648 Second Civil War- "Civil Wars of Ideas: Seventeenth-Century Politics, Religion, and Culture," provides an opportunity to explore, through political and polemical treatises and striking images, some of the issues and conflicts that led to civil war
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The Early Seventeenth Century 3
- 1619 First African slaves in North America exchanged by Dutch frigate for good and supplies at Jamestown
- 1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth- The Mayflower was the ship that in transported the pilgrims at Plymouth 10 1621 Donne appointed dean of St. Paul's Cathedral
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The Early Seventheenth Century 2
- 1648 Second Civil War- "Civil Wars of Ideas: Seventeenth-Century Politics, Religion, and Culture," provides an opportunity to explore, through political and polemical treatises and striking images, some of the issues and conflicts that led to civil war
- 1651 English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
- 1665 The Great Plague- killed an estimated 100,000 people, about 20% of London's population
- 1642 Outbreak of civil war- Theaters are closed
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Sonnets
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnets 3, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20, 23, 29, 30, 33, 55, 60, 62, 65, 71, 73, 80, 85, 87, 93, 94, 97, 105, 106, 116, 129, 130, 135, 138, 144, 146, 147, 152 -
From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Amemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)
-To the Doubtful Reader
-Eve's Apology in Defense of Women -
From the History of the World
Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618) -
From Epigrams
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
-On My First Daughter
-To John Donne
-On My First Son -
To the Memory of My Beloved, The Quthor, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) -
From Poems: On Shakespeare
John Milton (1608-1674) -
From Songs and Sonnets: The Flea
John Donne (1572-1631) -
From Holy Sonnets 7, 9, 10, 13, 14
John Donne (1572-1631) -
From The Temple
George Herbert (1593-1633)
-The Altar
-Redemption
-Easter Wings
-Jordan
-The Collar
-The Pully
-The Flower
-Love -
From Holy Sonnets 1, 5
John Donne (1572-1631) -
From Areopagitica
John Milton (1608-1674) -
Sonnets: How Soon Hath TIme
John Milton (1608-1674) -
From Poems: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso
John Milton (1608-1674) -
From Lucasta
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
-To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
1.1660 Charles II restored to the English throne-Reopened the theaters
2.1666Fire destroys the city of London- a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London,
3.1668Dryden become poet laureate-officially appointed by a government to compose poems for special events and occasions.
4.1671John Milton wrote Paradise Lost- One of the greatest poet wrote his best known epic poem
5.1678 Jonh Bunyan- writes Pilgrim's Progress, the best known Christian allegory -
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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 2
- 1687 Sir Isaac Newton- writes Principa Mathematica
- 1700 Death of John Dryden- an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England dies.
- 1726 Swift- Wrote Gulliver's Travels, one of the famous stories that childrens like.
- 1744 Death of Alexander Pope- English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer dies.
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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 3
- 1784 Death of Samuel Johnson- A writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer dies.
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From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy [SHAKESPEARE AND BEN JONSON COMPARED]
John Dryden (1631-1700) -
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
John Milton (1608-1674) -
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Milton (1608-1674) -
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
John Milton (1608-1674) -
From Poems
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
-To His Coy Mistress
-The Definition of Love
-The Mower to the Glowworms -
Mac Flecknoe
John Dryden (1631-1700) -
From A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire [THE ARE OF SATIRE]
John Dryden (1631-1700) -
From A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -
A Description of a City Shower
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -
An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -
A Rake's Progress
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
A Rake's Progress, 1734-1735 -
From The Dunciad
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -
Marriage A-la-Mode
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Marriage A-la-Mode 1743-1745 -
Rambler No. 4 [ON FICTION]
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -
Rambler No. 60 [BIOGRAPHY]
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -
Lives of the Poets
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -
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The Romantic Period 1
- 1775 American War of Independence- The main result was an American victory, with mixed results for the other powers.
- 1789 Revolutionary and Napoleanic period in France
- 1791 Revolution in Santo Domingo
- 1794 William Blake- Wrote Songs of Experience, which tells us that childhood is a time and a state of protected "innocence," but not immune to the fallen world and its institutions.
- 1807 British slave trade outlawed- slavery abolished throughout the empire, including the West Indies
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The Romantic Period 2
- 1812 War between Britain and the United States-involved no geographical changes,[1] and no major policy changes. However, all the causes of the war had disappeared with the end of the war between Britain and France and with the destruction of the power of First Nation Indian tribes.-Wikipedia
- 1813 Jane Austine- wrote the famous book Pride and Prejudice
- 1815 Napoleon deafeated at Waterloo- Corn law passed, protecting economic interest of the landed aristocracy
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Romantic Period 3
- 1817 Death of Jane Austine- the famous author for Pride and Prejudice dies
- 1818 Mary Shelley- wrote Frankenstein, a story about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment
- 1829 Catholic Emancipation-was a process in the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century which involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws.
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There Is No Natural Religion
William Blake (1757-1827) -
From Songs of Innocence: Introduction, Lamb, Chimney Sweeper, Holy Thursday
William Blake (1757-1827) -
Holy Willie's Prayer
Robert Burns (1759-1796) -
From Songs of Experience: Introduction, Holy Thursday, The Chimney Sweeper, The Tyger, London
William Blake (1757-1827) -
The Eolian Harp
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -
From Lyrical Ballads "We are Seven"
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -
Strange fits of passion have I known, She dwelt among the untrodden ways, Three years she grew
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -
Michael "A Pastoral Poem"
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -
From Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) -
She walks in beauty
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) -
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -
Mutability, To Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats (1795-1821) -
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
John Keats (1795-1821) -
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats (1795-1821) -
To a Sky Lark
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
John Keats (1795-1821) -
Ode to Psyche
John Keats (1795-1821) -
Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on Melancholy
John Keats (1795-1821) -
To Autumn
John Keats (1795-1821) -
They say that Hope is happiness
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) -
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The Victorian Age 1
- 1837 Victoria becomes queen- ruled over 63years, the longest of any female monarch in history
- 1839 The Custody Act- it gave a mother the right to petition the court for access to her minor children
- 1850 -Tennyson succeeds Wordsworth as Poet Laureate
- 1857 The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act- established a civil divorce court and provided a deserted wife the right to apply for a protection order that would allow her rights to her property
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The Victorian Age 2
- 1854 Crimean War- Florence Nightingale organizes nurses to care for sick and wounded
- 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War- The war and its resulting German victory is notable for its impact and legacy on Europe.
- 1878 First street lightening- Electric street lighting in London
- 1891 Forster's Education Act- Free elementary education for all children between ages 5 and 12 in England and Wales 9.1901 Death of Victoria- died on Tuesday 22 January 1901 at half past six in the evening
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The Victorian Age 3
- 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War- fought between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and the Orange Free State. It ended with a British victory and the annexation of both republics by the British Empire; both would eventually be incorporated into the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire in 1910. -Wikipedia
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The Lady of Shalott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
The Lady of Shalott 1832, 1842 -
Pophyria's Lover
Robert Browning (1812-1889) Pophyria's Lover 1836,1842 -
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
John Keats (1795-1821) -
Sonnet to Sleep
John Keats (1795-1821) -
A Song: "Men of England", England in 1819
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning (1812-1889) -
When I have fears that I may cease to be, To Homer
John Keats (1795-1821) -
Ode on Indolence
John Keats (1795-1821) -
Sonnets from the Portuguese 22, 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson(1809-1892) -
Crossing the Bar
Alfred, Lord Tennyson(1809-1892) -
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -
Hap
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -
From Holy Sonnets 18, 19
John Donne (1572-1631) -
On Lying in Bed
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) -
On the Wit of Whistler
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) -
Science and Religion
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) -
No Second Troy
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -
The Covenrgence of the Twain
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -
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The Twentieth Century 1
- Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion-an Irish playwright gives contributions for his work on the film Pygmalion
- 1914-18 World War I- a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918
- 1922 T.S. Eliot- wrote one of his famous work The Waste Land
- 1929 Stock market crash- Great Depression begins
- 1933 Hitler comes to power in Germany- he was at the centre of the founding of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust.
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The Twentieth Century 2
- 1939-45 World War II-Marked by significant events involving the mass death of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it resulted in 50 million to over 73 million fatalities. These deaths make World War II by far the deadliest conflict in all of human history.-Wikipedia
- 1941-45 The Holocaust- The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages
- 1945 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki- First atomic bombs dropped in Japan
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The Twentieth Century 3
- 1961 Berlin Wall erected- a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic
- 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union- finally collapsed in 1991 when Boris Yeltsin seized power in the aftermath of a failed coup that had attempted to topple reform-minded Gorbachev. -wikipedia
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -
God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -
The Windhover, Spring and Fall, No worst, there is none
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -
Piano
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) -
The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -
Journey of the Magi
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -
Poetry as Memorable Speech
W. H. Auden (19907-1973) -
Learning in War-time
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) - given at Oxford University Church of St. Mary the Virgin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight_of_Glory_and_Other_Addresses -
Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden (19907-1973) -
The Unknown Citizen
W. H. Auden (19907-1973) -
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)