MT&C Primary Texts Timeline

By h.acevedo

  • London, William Blake

  • London, 1802 by William Wordsworth

  • "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley

  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

    Finished in 1803, published later

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    Originally published anonymously; name appeared on 1823 edition

  • "Ode On a Grecian Urn" by John Keats

    Orignally published anonymously in a magazine; name appeared on his published collection in the same year

  • Narritve of the Life of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglass

  • "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

    Originally published under a different title, changed a few more times, and the 25 years later this is the one that stuck

  • "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    First performed on this date

  • "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound

  • "Preface to Some Imagist Poets" by Amy Lowell

  • "Sea Rose" by H.D.

    Publication date of entire Sea Garden collection

  • "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay

    Written at a time of many race riots

  • "The Rose is Obsolete" by William Carlos Williams

    First published in collection entitled Spring and All, and the poems were identified by numbers, the titles were adopted later

  • To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

  • "Story in Harlem Slang" by Zora Neale Hurston

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    Originally published with a pen name

  • "The African Writer and the English Language" by Chinua Achebe

  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

    Written in response to Jane Eyre; interestingly long time gap

  • "On the Abolition of the English Department" by Ngugi wa Thiong'o et.al

  • "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" by James Baldwin

  • Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English by Ken Saro-Wiwa

  • "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz