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Apr 29, 750
Beowulf
this was when the surviving version of beowulf was composed -
Apr 30, 1300
Geoffrey Chaucer
wrote The Canterbery Tales, The Pardoner's Tale, and The Wife of Bath's Tale -
Apr 30, 1405
Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Morte d' Arthur -
Apr 30, 1423
Margaret Paston
famous poet. Wrote Letters of Margaret Paston, Twa Corlies, Lord Randall, Get Up and Bar the Door, Barbara Allan -
Period: Apr 30, 1485 to
The English Renaissance Period
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Apr 30, 1552
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 1, Sonnet 35, and Sonnet 75 -
Apr 30, 1569
Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 31, and Sonnet 39 -
May 6, 1580
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 1, Sonnet 35, Sonnet 75 -
Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 31, Sonnet 38 -
Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love -
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd -
Elizabeth I
Speech Before Her Troops -
The King James Bible
completed in 1611 by King James -
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 29, Sonnet 106, Sonnet 116, and Sonnet 130, Macbeth -
Period: to
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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John Done
Song, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnet 10, Meditation 17 -
Ben Johnson
On My First son, Still to Be Neat, Song: Celia -
Sir John Suckling
Song -
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress -
Robert Herrick
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time -
Samuel Pepys
from The Diary -
Joseph Addison
The Aims of The Spectator -
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man -
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
A Nocturnal Reverie -
Jonathon Swift
A Modest Proposal -
Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year -
Jonathan Swift
from Gulliver's Travels -
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard -
Samuel Johnson
A Dictionary of the English Language -
Samuel Johnson
On Spring -
William Blake
The Lamb, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, Infant Sorrow -
Robert Burns
To a Mouse, and To a Louse -
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -
James Boswell
Life of Samuel Johnson -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan -
Period: to
The Romantic Period
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William Wordsworth
Poetry: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, The Prelude, The World Is Too Much With Us, London, 1802 -
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Introduction to Frankenstein -
John Keats
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn. -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark -
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Developed the Byronic hero. Wrote She Walks in Beauty, Apostrohe to the Ocean, and Don Juan -
Period: to
The Victorian Period
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Charlotte Bronte
novel: Jane Eyre -
Emily Bronte
Remembrance -
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A.H.H, The Lady of Shalott, The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears, Olysses -
Matthew Arnold
poems: Dover Beach -
Charles Dickens
novel: Hard Times -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43 -
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess, Life in a Love, Love Among the Ruins -
Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur, Spring and Fall: To a Young Child -
Thomas Hardy
poems: The Darkling Thrush, "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave -
A.E. Housman
To An Athlete Dying Young, When I Was One-And-Twenty -
Rudyard Kipling
poems: Recessional, The Widow at Windsor -
Period: to
The Modern and Postmodern Periods
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Rupert Brooke
The Soldier -
William Butler Yeats
Collection of poems: When You Are Old, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium -
T.S Eliot
Preludes, Journey of the Magi, The Hollow Men -
George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant -
Stevie Smith
Not Waving but Drowning -
Anglo-Saxon Lyrics
The Seafarer and The Wanderer -
Period: to Apr 29, 1485
Old English and Medieval
beginnings of English
