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500
Beowulf
Date written is uncertain. -
Apr 29, 700
A History of the English Church and People
Author: Bede -
Apr 30, 1370
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer -
Apr 30, 1470
Morte d' Arthur
Author: Sir Thomas Malory -
Period: May 6, 1485 to
Renaissance Period
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May 6, 1575
Sonnet 1
Author: Edmund Spenser -
Sonnet 29
Author: William Shakespeare -
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Author: William Shakespeare -
King James Bible
Translated: King James -
Period: to
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Meditation 17
Author: John Donne -
A Modest Proposal
Author: Jonathan Swift -
Gulliver's Travels
Author: Jonathan Swift -
Elegy Written in a COuntry Churchyard
Author: Thomas Gray -
To a Mouse
Author: Robert Burns -
The Lamb
Author: William Blake -
Tintern Abbey
Author: William Wordsworth -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Period: to
Romantic Period
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Ozymandias
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Ode to a Nightingale
Author: John Keats -
Period: to
Victorian Period
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Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre -
Charles Dickens
Hard Times -
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Life in a Love -
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lady of Shalott
Ulysses -
Period: to
Modern and Postmodern Periods
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Rupert Brooke
The Soldier -
D.H. Lawrence
The Rocking Horse Winner -
William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old
The Second Coming -
George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant -
T.S. Eliot
Preludes
The Hollow Men -
The Exeter Book
Author: Alfred the Great -
Period: to Apr 29, 1485
Old English/Medieval
Beginnings of English