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Jan 1, 750
Beowulf
Author- annonymous
After arriving in Herot, Beowulf has to defeat three great evils that terrorize te townspeople. -
Jan 1, 1380
The Canterbury Tales
Author- Geoffrey Chaucer
A group of people are travelling on a road telling stories. -
Jan 1, 1380
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Author- Geoffrey Chaucer
After being sentenced to death, a knight has to reclaim his honor by knowing what women desire the most. -
Jan 1, 1400
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author- annonymous
King Arthur's nephew, Gawain, takes a fight with a strange green knight, thinking he will win. -
Jan 1, 1450
Barbara Allen
Author- anonymous
A man is in love sick for Barbara and, after being rejected, dies of a broken heart. -
Period: Jan 1, 1485 to
The English Renaissance Period
Authors began writing dramas and focusing on poetry. -
Jan 1, 1570
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Author- Christopher Marlow
A shepherd proclaims his love for a woman. -
Jan 1, 1570
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Author- Sir Walter Raleigh
The woman rejects the shepherd by saying she will not be happy. -
Sonnet 130
Author- William Shakespeare
Shakespeare is describing the qualities of a woman he loves. -
MacBeth
Author- William Shakespeare
After becomming the king, MacBeth is swallowed by his fear of his prophecy, foretold by the witches, comming true. -
Psalm 23
Author- from King James Bible
The Lord leads people to salvation. -
Period: to
The Age of Reason
Authors began writing about the problems of society. -
To His Coy Mistress
Author- Andrew Marvell
The speaker compliments a woman and says time will speed by for those in love. -
from Paradise Lost
Author- Andrew Marvell
Milton tells of a Hell and gives reasons for why God allows suffering to happen. -
from The Rape of the Lock
Author- Alexander Pope
At a formal party, a man cuts a lock of hair off of a woman's head. -
A Modest Proposal
Author- Jonathan Swift
Swift gives an outragous solution to the homeless problem; eating and selling them. -
Ellegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Author- Tomas Gray
The writer sits on a country churchyard and watches as people walk by. -
Th Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Author- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A sailor tells his tale of how he lost crew and was punished for killing an Albatross. -
Period: to
The Romantic Period
Authors begin writing about the beauty of nature. -
She Walks in Beauty
Author- George Gordon, Lord Byron
Byron compares a beautiful woman to the night. -
Ozymandias
Time makes everyone forget about everyone, no matter how important one person can be. -
Ode to a Nightengale
Author- John Keats
While wanting to commit suicide, Keats hears a chirping nightenale, which cheers him up. -
Ode to the West Wind
Author- Percy Bysshe Shelley
No matter how hard your life is, it will always get better. -
Period: to
The Victorian Period
Author wrote their works on the rise and fall of British power. -
The Lady of Shalott
Author- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A woman is cursed and can not go out of her tower and when she does, she dies. -
Ulysses
Author- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
After returning home, a war vetean wants to continue his adventurous days. -
from Hard Times
Author- Charles Dickens
Children are taught only facts because they are "wanted in life". -
My Last Duchess
Author- Robert Browning
Browning is talking about a picture of his former lover. -
Ah, Are You Diggng On My Grave?
Author- Thomas Hardy
A person thinks they will be remembered fter death, but only a dog comes to their grave to bury a bone. -
Period: to
The Modern Period
Authors begin to write about human joy and struggles that come from all around the world. -
When You Are Old
Author- William Butler Yeats
The author wants to remind an old love of the times they had together and how she will regret missing them when she is old. -
Preludes
Author- T. S. Eliot
The author uses vivid images to describe a city. -
Shooting An Elephant
Author- George Orwell
A police officer in Burma must choose between killing an elephant that trampled a man or saving it and look like a fool in front of the townspeople. -
The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection
Author- Virginia Woolf
People are too curious to not look into a house when they walk by. -
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Author- Dylan Thomas
The author wants his father to fight death and to not die easily. -
Period: to Dec 31, 1485
Old English and Medieval Periods
Authors focus on poetry an some wrote long poems called epics.
