British Literature

By asellers2010
  • Beowulf
    May 4, 750

    Beowulf

    an epic translated by Burton Raffel
  • May 4, 760

    Gilgamesh The Prologue

    Translated by David Ferry
  • May 4, 765

    Iliad

    by Homer, and Translated by Richard Lattimore
  • May 7, 1300

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Translated by Marie Borroff
  • May 7, 1376

    The Canterbury Tales

    By Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales included The Pardoner's Tale, and The Wife of Bath's Tale
  • May 7, 1435

    Twa Corbies

    A ballad
  • May 7, 1436

    Lord Randall

    ballad about how poison made a man feel sick and his dogs die.
  • May 7, 1437

    Get Up and Bar the Door

    About a stubborn couple that refused to lock the door resulting in two men breaking into their house.
  • May 7, 1438

    Barbara Allan

    About a dying man telling Barbara Allan he loves her and he always has.
  • May 7, 1445

    Morte d' Arthur

    by Sir Thomas Malory
  • Period: May 7, 1485 to

    The Enlgish Renaissance Period

  • May 7, 1570

    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

    by Christopher Marlowe
  • May 7, 1570

    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

    by Christopher Marlowe
  • May 7, 1576

    The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

    by Sir Walter Raleigh
  • May 7, 1580

    Sonnet 1

    by Edmund Spenser
  • May 7, 1580

    Sonnet 31

    by Sir Philip Sidney
  • May 7, 1581

    Sonnet 35

    by Edmund Spenser
  • May 7, 1581

    Sonnet 39

    by Sir Philip Sidney
  • May 7, 1582

    Sonnet 75

    by Edmund Spenser

  • Sonnet 29

    by William Shakespeare

  • Sonnet 106

    by William Shakespeare

  • Sonnet 116

    By William Shakespeare

  • Sonnet 130

    by William Shakespeare

  • The Parable of the Prodigal Son

    from The King James Bible
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth

    The Tragedy of Macbeth

    A Drama by William Shakespeare
  • Period: to

    The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

  • Holy Sonnet 10

    By John Donne

  • Song

    Poem by John Donne

  • Meditation 17

    By John Donne

  • On My First Son

    by Ben Jonson

  • Song

    by Sir John Suckling

  • A Modest Proposal

    by Jonathan Swift

  • Gulliver's Travels

    by Jonathan Swift

  • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

    by Thomas Gray
  • To a Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plow, November, 1785

    To a Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plow, November, 1785

    by Robert Burns
  • Period: to

    The Romantic Period

  • The Lamb

    by William Blake

  • The Tyger

    by William Blake

  • On the First Looking into Chapman's Homer

    By John Keats

  • When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

    By John Keats

  • Ode to a Nightingale

    by John Keats

  • Ode on a Grecian Urn

    By John Keats

  • She Walks in Beauty

    by George Gordon, Lord Byron

  • Ozymandias

    by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • Don Juan

    by Lord Byron
  • Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  • Ode to the West Wind

    by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • To a Skylark

    By Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • Kubla Khan

    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

    by William Wordsworth

  • The Prelude

    By William Wordsworth

  • The World Is Too Much With Us

    by William Wordsworth
  • Period: to

    The Victorian Period

  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    by Charlotte Bronte

  • In Memoriam, A.H.H

    By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • Sonnet 43

    by Elizabeth Barrett Brownig

  • The Lady of Shalott

    By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • Ulysses

    by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • Hard Times

    by Charles Dickens

  • My Last Duchess

    by Robert Browning

  • Dover Beach

    BY Matthew Arnold

  • God's Grandeur

    By Gerard Manley Hopkins

  • To an Athlete Dying Young

    By A.E. Housman
  • Period: to

    The Modern and Postmodern Periods

  • When You Are Old

    by William Butler Yeats

  • The Second Coming

    by William Butler Yeats

  • Sailing to Byzantium

    By william Butler Yeats

  • Preludes

    By T.S Eliot
  • Shooting an Elephant

    Shooting an Elephant

    By George Orwell

  • The Hollow Men

    T.S Eliot

  • The Soldier

    by Rupert Brooke

  • The Seafarer

    Translated by Burton Raffel

  • The Wanderer

    Translated by Charles W. Kennedy

  • The Wife's Lament

    Translated by Ann Stanford

  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

    Translated by Anne Savage
  • Period: to May 4, 1485

    The Old English and Medieval Periods