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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
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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
A Drama by William Shakespeare -
Period: to
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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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
by Robert Burns -
Period: to
The Romantic Period
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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
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
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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
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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
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
