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Apr 18, 750
Beowulf by unknown c. 750
An Epic poem showing the classic Anglo-Saxon battle for fame and fortune. -
Apr 23, 1000
The Wife's Lament by unknown written before 1000
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Apr 18, 1386
The Canterbury Tales by Geffory Chaucer
A series of stories told by a group of people pilgraming to Canterbury -
Period: Jan 1, 1485 to
English Renaissance Period
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The Passionate Shepard to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
A proposal to the shepards love promising her the world -
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard by Sir Waltaer Raleigh
The Nymph's refusal of the Shepard in Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepards Proposal to his Love. -
William Shakespeare wrote the Tragedy of Macbeth
A play about the evil nature in man knowing the future. -
Period: to
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Paradise Lost by John Miltion
The battle between good and evil. -
A Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift
A satyre to provoke the English on their treatment of the Irish people, -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Grey
A poem about a person walking through an old graveyard and thinking about the people buried there. -
To A Mouse by Robert Burns
A poem that showed Robert Burns remorse for ruining a mouses home. -
Period: to
Romantic Period
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge
A story about luck and the power of God. -
Period: to
Victorian Period
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The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A story about a girl that was cursed to never see the outside world, and her despiration to leave her prison. -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The life at a boarding school in the 1800s. Showcasing the cruelty that could occure. -
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Satyre that says that imagionation is a bad thing and you should only do the nessasary things and what you are told. -
Period: to
Modern and Post Modern
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To An Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Houseman
An elegy praising a young athlete who died before his time -
D. H. Lawrence published The Rocking-Horse Winner
A short story that showcases the greed in man. -
The Seafarer by unknown
c. A mans story about life at sea and the mortality of human beings. -
Period: to Jan 1, 1485
Old English - Medieval Periods
