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Apr 29, 750
Beowulf
The epic poem Beowulf was composed in 750. -
Apr 30, 1400
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343-1400
Chaucer is most famous for his work, The Canterbury Tales. -
Period: Apr 30, 1485 to
English Renaissance Period
Most exciting and dynamic times in British history. -
May 6, 1500
King James
Was known for The King James Bible and Psalm 23. -
Apr 30, 1552
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser is known for creating the sonnet form, known as the Spenserian sonnet. -
Apr 30, 1554
Sir Philip Sidney
Famous sonnets from Sir Philip Sidney are Sonnet 31 and Sonnet 39. -
Apr 30, 1564
William Shakespeare
Shakespeares most famous works are Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet. -
Sir John Suckling
Known for his poem, "Song" -
Period: to
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
This timespan was known for the beheading of a king and the abolishment of the monarchy. -
John Donne
His famous works are, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnet 10, Meditation 17. -
Jonathan Swift
His famous work we read was, "from Gulliver's Travels" and "A Modest Proposal." -
Alexander Pope
Famous for his works, "The Rape of Lock" (1712-1214) and "An Essay on Criticism" (1711). -
Samuel Johnson
from A Dictionary of the English Language, from The Preface. -
Thomas Grey
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. -
William Blake
The Lamb and The Tyger. -
Robert Burns
To a Mouse. -
William Wordsworth
Tintern Abbey, from The Prelude. -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Marnier. -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark. -
John Keats
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be, Ode To a Nightingale, and Ode on a Grecian Urn. -
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Introduction to Frankenstein. -
Period: to
The Romantic Period
Classicism and rationalism were redfined and changed dramatically in this time period. -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43. -
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from In Memoriam, A.H.H., The Lady of Shalott. -
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess. -
Charles Dickens
from Hard Times. -
Charolotte Bronte
from Jane Erye. -
Period: to
The Victorian Period
Booming economy and rapid expansion. -
Thomas Hardy
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" -
Gerald Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur. -
A.E. Housman
To an Athlete Dying Young and When I Was One-and-Twenty. -
William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old and The Second Coming. -
Rupert Brooke
The Soldier. -
T.S. Eliot
Preludes and The Hollow Men. -
Period: to
The Modern and Postmodern Periods
Science and technology increased during this time period. -
George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant. -
Period: to Apr 29, 1485
Old English and Medieval Period
Beginnings of English Literature
