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500
Beowulf
The date it was written was unknown -
May 6, 700
A History of the English Church and People
Gave Bede the name "Father of English History" -
May 6, 1000
Kights of Legend
Sir Gawain and the green Knight, and Morte d'Arthur. Little known about the poets of both these poems. It said Malory, the Morte d'Arthur poet, loved hunting and tournaments as well as Arthurian lore. Think he spent much of his life in prison. -
May 3, 1386
The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer was born somewhere around 1343 and died in 1400 -
Period: May 6, 1485 to
The English Renaissance Period
Once of the most exciting periods in history, was both a worldly and religious age. Blossomed first in the italian city-states. spread northward, giving rise to the english renaissance -
May 6, 1550
The influence of the Monarchy
Circa 1500- Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia, Queen Elizabeth I wrote "Speech Before Her Troops" in 1587. Stories from "The King James Bible" which was completed in 1611, include "Psalm 23", "The Sermon on the Mount" and "The Parable of the Prodigal Son" -
May 6, 1564
William Shakespeare
He wrote Sonnet 29, Sonnet 106, Sonnet 116, and Sonnet 130 -
May 6, 1580
Sir Philip Sidney
Worte the first freat English sonnet sequence "Astrophel and Stella". Was first to link by subject matter and theme -
Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh
Christopher Marlowe wrote "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Sir Walter Raleigh wrote "The Nymph's Reply" which connected to Marlowes poem. These are called "Reply Poems" -
Spenser's Sonnets
The Fairie Queen was his most famous sonnets. The Amoretti is unique among such works, it is adressed to the peoet's own wife, not some inaccessible, idealized beauty -
Period: to
The Seventeenth And Eightenth Centuries "A Turbulent Time"
Begins with the beheading of a king, and ends with a revolution just beyond the English Channel. -
Focus on Literary Forms: Drama
Macbeth, Written by William Shakespeare. Was a mizture of fact and legend. He took what he needed from the chronivles and Shaped it into wa tragic plot for Macbeth. -
A Nation Divided
John Milton wrote "Sonnet VII (How soon hath Time) "," Sonnet XIX"and "Paradise Lost". Amelia Lanier wrote " Eve's Aplogy in Defense of Women". Richard Lovelace wrote "To lucasta, on Going to the Wars", and "To Althea, from Prison". -
The War Agains Time
John Donne,Ben Johnson,Andrew Marvel, Robert Herrick, Sir John Suckling. Donne wrote clever love poems read by sophisticated aritocrats.His poems for example were, "Song", "Holy Sonnet 10", and "Meditation 17". Ben Johnson Wrote "On My First Son", "Still to Be Neat" and "Song:To Celia". Andrew Marvell wrote "To His Coy Mistress". Robert Herrrick wrote "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time". And Sir John Suckling wrote "Song". -
A Modest Proposal
Written by Jonathan Swift. The best audience for this story is the upper class. -
A Modest Proposal
Written by Jonathan Swift. Best Audience is upper class -
The Ties That Bind
Samuel Pepys wrote"The Diary", Daniel Defoe wrote "A Journal of the Plague Year". Johathan Swift wrote "Gulliver's Travels", which wasa marked by religious and political strife. Alexander Pope wrote "An Essay on Man", and The "Rape of the Lock". Samuel Johnson wrote "A Dictionary of the English Language" and James Boswell wrote "Life of Samuel Johnson". Thomas Gray wrote Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, wrote A Nocturnal Reverie. -
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The Romantic Period
All attitudes and tendenciesof eighteenth-century classicism and rationalism were defined or changed dramatically. -
Lyric Poetry
William Wordsworth wrote "Lives Composed a Frw Miles Above Tintern Abbey", "The Prelude", "The World is too Much With Us", adn "London, 1802". Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: and "Kubla Khan". Percy Bysshe Shelley Wrote "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", and "To a Skylark." -
Fantasy and Reality
Robert Burns wrote "To a Mouse" and "To a Louse". Joanna Baillie wrote "Woo'd and Married and A'". William Blake wrote "The Lamb", "The Tiger", "The Chimney Sweeper", and "Infant Sorrow". Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote the most famouse Gothic literature of all time "Frankenstein" Edgar Allen Poe wrote "The Oval Portrait" -
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The Victorian Period
Called because Queen Victoria reigned for sixty-four years. Two key issues-trade policy and electoral reform-dominated domestic politics during the first half of the Victorian Era. -
Relationships
Alfred,Lord Tennyson wrote "In Memorian, A.H.H." "The Lady of Shalott" "The Princess:Tears, Idle Tears" and "Ulysses". -
Gloom and Glory
Emily Bronte wrote "Remembrance" Thomas Hardy wrote "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave". Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote "God's Grandeur" and "Spring and Fall:To a Young Child". A.E. Houseman wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young" and "When I Was One-And-Twenty" -
Focus on Literary Forms: The Novel
Novel is a long piece of work of prose fiction. The English novel reached full flower during the Victorian era with such classsics as "Hard Times" and "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens. He also wrote "Oliver Twist" as well as "Nicholas Nickleby" Charlotte Bronte wrote "Jane Eyre" in 1847 -
The Empire and Its Discontents
Matthew Arnold wrote "Dover Beach" Rupyard Kipling wrote "Recessional" "The Widow at Windsor" as well as "The Jungle Book" "Captains Courageous" and "Kim" -
Period: to
A Time of Rapid Change
The twentieth centruy dawned bright with promise. Progress in science and technology was helping to make life easier and the world more comprehensible. Yet, while steady advances in communications and transportation drew the world closer together, the scourge of modern warfare soon wrenched in apart. -
Waking From the Dream
William Butler Yeats wrote "When You Are Old" "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" "The Wild Swans at Coole" "The Second Coming" "Sailing To Byzantium" T.S. Eliot wrote "Preludes" "Journey of the Magi" and "The Hollow Men" George Orwell wrote "Shooting an Elephant" as well as "Animal Farm" "Burmese Days" "The Road to Wigan Pier" and "1984" Rupert Brooke wrote "The Soldier" Ghandi wrote "Defending Nonviolent Resistance" Stevie Smith wrote "Not Waving but Drowning" -
The Exeter Book
Probably complied by Monks. "The Seafarer," "The Wanderer," and "The Wifes Lament" were all discovered in this collection. -
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
This story existed only in fragments: a poem passed from one person to another; a parchment that listed the names of old kings; a soldier's memories of a battle. During the Writing of the Cronicle, Monks pulled togerther parts of Bede's History, existing chronologies, royal genealogies, and other historic documents -
Period: to Apr 29, 1485
Old English and Medieval Periods
Beginning of English
