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Apr 30, 600
Old English
500-1200
Early form of English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons. -
Apr 26, 1067
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
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Apr 30, 1200
Gilgamesh
2700 B.C. and around 600 B.C. -
Apr 26, 1300
Middle English
1200-1600
Describes dialects of English in the history of the English language between the High and Late Middle Ages, or roughly during the three centuries between the late 12th and the late 15th century. -
Apr 30, 1340
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff
1340-1400 -
Apr 30, 1400
Sonnet 31 by Sir Philip Sidney
1400-1600 -
Apr 30, 1400
Sonnet 39 by Philip Sydney
1400-1600 -
Apr 30, 1400
The Renaissance
1400-1600 -
Apr 30, 1475
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Apr 30, 1475
The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
One of the Canterbury Tales -
Apr 30, 1475
The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
One of the Canterbury Tales. -
Jan 24, 1485
Renaissance
1485-1660
It was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. -
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
1599 -
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
1600 -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
1603-1607 -
Sonnet 29 William Shakespeare
1609 -
On My First Son
1616 -
Holy Sonnet 10 by John Donne
1620 -
Barbara Allen
Folk Ballad -
Romantic Age
1800-1900
was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. -
Lady of Shalott
1809-1892 -
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
1819 -
The Second Coming
1865-1939 -
Modern period
the stage of the English language used from the beginning of the Tudor period until the English Interrugnum and Restoration, or from the trasition from Middle English to late 15th century to the trasition to Modern English during the mid to late 17th century. -
T.S. Eliot
1905-1965 -
Get Up and Bar the Door by David Herd
1909-1914 -
The Seafarer by Burton Raffel
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The Rocking Horse Winner
1926 -
The Wanderer by Charles W. Kennedy
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
1945 -
Beowulf
800-1200
