GRE lit

By slr2175
  • Period: 700 to

    GRE Lit Timeline

  • 800

    beowulf

  • 1100

    Lanval

  • 1380

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    late 14th century
  • 1380

    Piers Plowman

    1370-1390
  • 1387

    Canterbury Tales

    late 1300s (14th c)
  • 1425

    York Crucifixion

  • 1450

    Morte D'Arthur

    mid 15th century
  • 1475

    Everyman

    (late 15th century)
  • 1525

    first English sonnets

    (by Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, just early 16th century)
  • 1530

    Sir Thomas Wyatt "Whoso List to Hunt" (introduced sonnet to English lit)

    early 16th century
  • 1579

    Defence of Poesy

  • Fairie Queene

  • Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devill

    to mark time of high English pamphlet culture

  • Hamlet

  • Volpone

  • Don Quixote

    (published in two parts, 1605, 1615)

  • The Duchess of Malfi

  • Donne Poems

  • Herrick's collection, Hesperides

  • Hobbes' Leviathan

  • Paradise Lost

  • Tartuffe

  • The Country Wife

  • The Pilgrim's Progress

  • Oroonoko

  • The Way of the World

  • Gulliver's Travels

  • Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

  • David Hume "On the Freedom of the Press"

  • Tom Jones

  • "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

  • The Rivals

  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense

  • Lives of the Poets

  • Lyrical Ballads

  • "Mont Blanc"

  • Rip Van Winkle

  • Keats' Odes

  • Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"

  • In Memoriam A.H.H.

  • Don Juan

    1819-1824

  • Sartor Restarus

  • Browning's "My Last Duchess"

  • Tennyson's "Ulysses"

  • The Tell Tale Heart

  • Narrative of the Life

  • Vanity Fair

  • The Scarlet Letter

  • "Dover Beach"

  • Moby Dick

  • Walden

  • Origin of Species

  • Crime and Punishment

  • War and Peace

  • Huck Finn

  • Daisy Miller

  • Importance of Being Earnest

  • Jude the Obscure

  • The Red Badge of Courage

  • The Turn of the Screw

  • Heart of Darkness

  • The Awakening

  • Sister Carrie

  • The Souls of Black Folk

  • The House of Mirth

  • The House of Mirth

  • Major Barbara

  • Howard's End

  • The Age of Innocence

  • Ulysses

  • The Waste Land

  • A Passage to India

  • An American Tragedy

  • The Sound and the Fury

  • Mourning Becomes Electra

  • "Shooting an Elephant"

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

  • Death of a Salesman

  • The Crucible

  • Lucky Jim

  • "Howl"

  • Reader Response criticism

    60s-70s