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Apr 23, 750
Beowulf
c.750- Epic poem following the life and journey of a hero called Beowulf. It shows the events from the time of his arrival to Herot until his death. -
Period: Apr 23, 1066 to Apr 23, 1485
The Medieval Period
Was filled with Romances, Lyrics, and Ballads. Was the emerging of the national identity. -
Apr 23, 1386
The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, it is a combination of tales told by the people on their pilgrimage to Canterbury -
Apr 23, 1465
Morte d'Arthur
Written by Sir Thomas Malory, it follows the last battle of King Arthur against Sir Mordred, a traitor of Camelot. -
Period: Apr 24, 1485 to
The Renaissance
A time where the most exciting and dynamic events took place. Full of rich history, powerful literature, and great masterpieces of art. -
Apr 24, 1575
Petrarchan sonnets
Sir Philip Sidney wrote many sonnets, such as Sonnet 31 and 39, in Petrarchan form which was divided into two parts, an eight line octave with a rhyme scheme of abba abba and a six line sestet with a rhyme scheme of cdecde -
Apr 24, 1580
Spenserian sonnets
Edmund Spenser gives the England many powerful sonnets such as Sonnet 1, 35, and 75 which showed us a balance of harmony between humanity and the universe. -
Shakespearean Sonnets
Unlike the Spenserian and Petrarchan sonnets, William Shakespeare contained three quatrains and a rhyming couplet at the end. Its rhyme scheme was abab cdcd efef gg as used in Sonnets 29, 106, 116, and 130. -
MacBeth
One of Shakespeare most famous play, we follow a young lord life as he is exposed to the lust of power and is shown in the end that with power comes heartache. -
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The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
A period full of history starting with a beheading of a king and ends with a revolution along the English Channel. Shows the thoughts of many spectators. -
Works of John Donne
His poetry fell neatly into two contradictory parts. On one side was his wild and youthful works such as "Song" and on the other side was his sober and mature works like "Holy Sonnet 10" and Meditation 17". -
On My First Son
Written by Ben Jonson, the poem is marking the occasion of his son Benjamin's death. -
To His Coy Mistress
One of Andrew Marvell's poems, it contains witty puns and fanciful imagery that expresses ideas, theories, and wordplay. -
Paradise Lost
An Epic poem written by John Milton giving an explanation on why God allows suffering in the world. -
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift's story satirizes such as intolerance of religion, education, and government ignorance. -
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The Romantic Period
This period is a transition from the discovery of the outer world to understanding of one's inner world. The writings celebrates both the hearts and the minds of the rebels and dreamers. -
William Blake
In his works "The Lamb" and "The Tyger", Blake passes from the innocence of the Lamb to the darker awareness of the Tyger. -
Frankenstein
Inspired by a waking dream, Mary Shelley thought of Frankenstein during a challenge of the best ghost stories between Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and other friends. -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
written by Samuel Coleridge based off a dream, the ancient mariner shows that everything in the world that God created is made equal and should be treated that way. -
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The Victorian Period
This period reflects the rise and fall of Britsh power. It shows England climb to the top of the mountain and then its slow steady decline back down. -
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin. His father was a lawyer and a well-known portrait painter. Yeats was educated in London and in Dublin, but he spent his summers in the west of Ireland in the family's summer house at Connaught. -
In Memoriam, A.H.H.
written in memory of his best friend, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a 130+ section poem about the lost of his greatest friend. -
The Brownings
In so much love, Robert and Elizabeth Browning wrote many love poems such as Life in Love, Love Among the Ruins, and Sonnet 43 to express the love they share for each other. -
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. -
James Joyce
James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses. James Joyce was born in Dublin, on February 2, 1882. -
Rudyard Kipling
He wrote a great variety of poetry, short stories, and novels such as The Jungle Books and Captains Courageous -
TS Eliot
(September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) American publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth century's major poets." -
DH Lawrence
(11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, in 1885. Though better known as a novelist, Lawrence's first-published works were poems, and his poetry, especially his evocations of the natural world, have since had a significant influence on many poets on both sides of the Atlantic. -
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The Modern Period
This period shows the voices from the Commonwealth of Nations (countries where Queen of England serves as the figure head) speaking out against government and giving their point of view of how the world is changing and developing. -
George Orwell
Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant. He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer. -
Poetry of William Yeats
In poems like The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, and Wehn You Are Old are all poems that showed the peril that the world is coming too. -
Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell describes how the Burma Imperialism has influenced his decisions whether it was for the good or the worse. -
The Harry Potter Series
A collection of seven books written by J.K. Rowling about the young life and struggle of a wizard. -
Tunnels
written by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, the story follows Will Burrows, a 14-year-old archaeologist, who stumbles upon an underground civilization called The Colony. -
Burton Raffel's translation
c.458- The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife's Lament were three poems about exile, or a prolonged stay away from home that is forced upon a person. -
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Translated by Anne Savage, is a combination of the fragments of the history before it was written knitted together in a book -
Period: to Dec 31, 1066
The Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period
This time period produces the rich cultural hertiage that lays the foundations for the British Tradition.
