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Author List
What is Literature?
English Literature
Old English
Literature (The First English Literature)
-The Dream of the Rood, Boewulf, The Battle of Maldon
-Seafarer and the Wanderer
-Old English Prose: King Alfred, Ecclesiastical History, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Middle English Literature (The Coming of the Normans)
Geoffrey
Chaucer(ca. 1343-1400)
The Canterbury
Tales:
-The General Prologue
-Merciless Beauty,
Truth
-Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight: part 1 (202-5)
-Pier Plowman
Middle English Lyrics
(love poems)
-Fowls in the Firth, 1
have a Young Sister, The Cuckoo Song
Popular Ballads
-Barbara Allan, The
Three Raven, Sir Patrick spens
Sir Thomas Malory(ca.
1405-1471)
-Morte Darthur
Prose
The Scottish Literature
The Sixteenth Century(1458-1603)
The English Bible
Sir Thomas More(1478-1535):Utopia: Book I
John Skelton(ca. 1460-1529): To Mistress
Margret Hussey
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder(1503-1542)
-The Long Love That in My
Thought Doth Harbor Farewell Love, My Lute, Awake!
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
-0 Happy Dames; That May
Embrace, My Friend; the Things That Do Attain
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
-Astrophil and Stella:
stanza 1-5
-The Defence of Poesy
-The Nightingale,
Sir Walter Raleigh(1552-1618)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, The Author's Epitaph,
Made by Himself
Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)
-The Faerie Queene: Book
1, Canto 1, 1-10
-From Amoretti: sonnet 1,
34, 64
-Epithalamion
Beginning of Drama
English Drama
Thomas Kyd, Nicholas Udall, George Peele, John Lyly, Robert Greene
Early Elizabethan Drama
Christopher Marlowe(1554-1593)
-Hero and Leander, The
Passionate Shepherd to His Love
-Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
-Blow, Blow, Thou
Wind; It Was a Lover and His Lass
-Sonnet 12, 18, 71,
130, 147
-Henry IV
Other Elizabethan Dramatists
Ben Jonson: See the 17th Century
John Webster(1580?-1625): See the 17th Century
Thomas Nashe(1567-1601): Spring the Sweet Spring, A Litany in Time of Plague
Songs and Poems of the 16th
Century
Arthur Golding (1536-1605): From Ovid's
Metamorphoses
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke(1562-1621)
Queen Elizabeth(1533-1603) On
Mousieur's Departure
George Gascoigne(1539-1578): The Lullaby of
a Lover
Robert Southwell(1561-1595): The Burning
Babe(1042)
Thomas Campion (1567-1620): My Sweet Lesbia,
There Is a Garden in Her Face,
When
to Her Lute Corinna Sings
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619): Ulysses and the
Siren
Michael Drayton (1563-1631): Ode: To the
Virginian Voyage
Sir John Davies(1569-1626)
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke(1554-1628)
Aemilia Lanyer(1569-1645): The Description of
Cooke-ham
Anonymous: Come Away, Sweet Love!,
Madrigal, The Silver Swan, Constant
Penelope Send to Thee
Elizabethan Prose:
Robert Burton: See the 17th Century
Francis Bacon: See the 17th Century
Thomas Nashe
John Donne(1572-1631)
-The Undertaking, The
Sun Rising, The Canonization, The Flea, A
Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning, The Relic
Ben Jonson(1572-1637)
-To John Donne, To Lucy, Countess of
Bedford, With Mr Donne's Satires, To Heaven,
Queen and Huntress, To
the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare .
John Webster(1580?-1625)
-The Duchess of Malfi
Robert Herrick(1591-1674)
-Upon the Loss of His
Mistresses , The Lily in a Crystal, His Prayer to Ben Jonson,
To His Conscience
George
Herbert(1593-1633)
-Redemption, Easter,
Church Monuments, The Bunch of Grapes, The Fowler, Death
Richard Crashaw(ca.
1613-1649)
-To the Infant
Martyrs, On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord, The Flaming
Heart
Henry Vaughan(1621-1695)
-The Retreat, The
Night, The Waterfall
Andrew Marvell(1621-1678)
-A Dialogue Between
the Soul and Body, To his Coy Mistress, The Definition of
Love, The Garden
John Milton (1608-1674)
-On Shakespeare,
L'Allegro, Lycidas, How Soon Hath Time, When I Consider
How My Light is Spent,
-Paradise Lost: Book
1 (1475-1477)
Poetic Modes of the Early
Seventeenth Century
Henry King
(1592-1669): The Exequy
Thomas
Carew(1595-1640): To Ben Jonson, A Song
Sir John Suckling
(1609-1642): Loving and Beloved
Richard
Lovelace(1618-1657): The Grasshopper
Edmund
Waller(1606-1687): The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied
Sir John
Denham(1615-1669)
Abraham Cowley
(1618-1667): Ode: Of Wit
Prose of the Early Seventeenth
Century
Francis
Bacon(1561-1626)
-Of Marriage and
Single Life, From Novum Organum, From New Atlantis
Robert Burton(1577-1640): From Anatomy
of Melancholy
Thomas Hobbes
(1558-1679): Leviathan
Izaak Walton
(1593-1683)
Sir Thomas
Browne(1605-1682): Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial
The Restoration and the Eighteenth
Century(1660-1798)
(Age of Dryden)
John
Dryden(1631-1700): A Song for St. Cecilia's Day(1827-1829), Epigram on Milton
Samuel
Pepys(1633-1703): The Diary: the Great Fire
John
Bunvan(1628-1688): From Pilgrim's Progress(1852)
William
Congreve(1670-1729): The Way of the World
Daniel Defoe(ca.
1660-1731); Roxana
Poetry: Augustan Modes
Samuel
Butler(1612-1680): From Hudibras, Part 1, Canto I
John Wilmot, Second
Earl of Rochester(1647-1680): The Disabled Debauchee
.Anne Finch
(1661-1720): The Introduction
Matthew
Prior(1664-1721): An Epitaph, A True Maid
John Gay(1685-1732)
Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu(1689-1762): The Lover: A Ballad
Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)
-Verses on the Death
of Dr. Swift, From Gulliver's Travels
Joseph Addition and Sir Richard
Steele
Steele: Dueling
Addison: The Aims of
the Spectator
Alexander Pope(1688-1744)
-An Essay on Criticism
(2217), Ode on Solitude, From An Essay on Man,
From The Dunciad(Book
the fourth)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
-On the Death of Dr.
Robert Levet,
Translation of Horace,
Ode, Book 4 and 7
James Boswell (1 740-1795): From The Life of Samuel Johnson, 11, D.
The Poetry of Sensibility
James
Thompson(1700-1748): Ode: Rule, Britannia
Thomas Gray (1716-1771): Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Collins (1721-1759): Ode to Evening
Christopher Smart(1722-1759): A Song to David
Oliver Goldsmith(ca. 1730-1774): The Deserted Village
George Crabbe(1754-1832)
William Cowper(1731-1800)