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The Seafarer
Author: Anonymous
Describes the hardships of life at sea. -
Apr 28, 750
Beowulf
Author: Anonymous
Beowulf battles three monsters to protect the people of herot. -
Jan 30, 1380
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
A young knight is sentenced to death, but is given a second chance. -
Apr 28, 1380
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
A group of travelers tell stories to try to get their trip paid for. -
Jun 13, 1380
The Pardoner's Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Three rioters betray each other because of greed. -
Period: Jan 1, 1485 to
The English Renaissance Period
Main focus was on dramas and poetry. -
Apr 29, 1500
The Passionate Shepherd to his Lover
Author: Christopher Marlowe
A shepherd tells a woman that he loves her. -
Jun 21, 1500
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
The woman rejects the shepherd's love. -
Apr 29, 1580
Sonnet 130
Author: William Shakespear
The speaker is talking about the woman he loves. -
Macbeth
Author: William Shakespear
Once becoming king, Macbeth goes mad because of a prophecy told by three witches. -
Psalm 23
Author: From the King James Bible
The Lord guides man in the right direction. -
Period: to
The Age of Reason
Authors wrote about the problems in society. -
Meditation 17
Author: John Donne
Church bells sound each time there is a death. -
Holy Sonnet 10
Author: John Donne
Donne is stating that nobody is too powerful to avoid death. -
Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton
Milton explains why God allows suffering in the world. -
A Modest Proposal
Author: Johnathan Swift
Swift proposes that poor people should be eaten and the poor people's children should be bread for eating. -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Author: Thomas Gray
A writer sits in the churchyard and watches people walk by. -
Period: to
The Romantic Period
Authors wrote about nature. -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A sailor is telling his story at a wedding about how his crew all died and he killed an albotross that caused him to have bad luck. -
Ozymandias
Author: Percy Shelley
A king has a statue made of him to remember how great he was. -
Ode to a Nightingale
Author: John Keats
Keats is about to kill himself, but hears a nightingale chirping and he then becomes happy. -
Ode to the West Wind
Author: Percy Shelley
No matter how bad life is, things always get better. -
Ode On A Grecian Urn
Author: John Keats
The speaker is talking to a grecian urn. -
Period: to
The Victorian Period
The rise and fall of British Power. -
The Lady of Shalott
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A woman was cursed and was unable to leave her tower, but when she finally did, she died. -
Ulysses
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
After comeing home, a war veteren wants to still be adventerous. -
Hard Times
Author: Charles Dickens
A philosophy teacher believes that children should only be taught facts. -
My Last Duchess
Author: Robert Browning
Browning is talking about a picture of his former lover. -
Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave
Author: Thomas Hardy
A person thinks he or she will be remembered after death, but only a dog comes to the grave to bury a bone. -
Period: to
The Modern Period
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Preludes
Author: T.S. Eliot
The poem is about modern life. -
When You Are Old
Author: William Butler Yeats
An anonymous narrator asks his former lover to remember her youth and his love for her. -
The Hollow Men
Author: T.S. Eliot
Scarecrows are leaning against each other and are set on fire. -
Journey of the Magi
Author: T.S. Eliot
Three kings go on a journey to see the birth of Jesus. -
Period: to Dec 31, 1485
Old English and Medieval Periods
Author's main focus was on poetry.
