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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: Ecclesiastical History, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Middle English Literature
(The Coming of the Normans)
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
-Morte Darthur
Prose
The Scottish Literature
The Sixteenth Century(1458-1603)
The English Bible
Utopia
-To Mistress Margret Hussey
-The Long Love that in My thought Doth Harbor;
Farewell Love; My Lute, Awake!
-0 Happy Dames;
That May Embrace, My Friend; the Things That Do Attain
-Astrophil and Stella
-The Defence of Poesy
-The Nightingale, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, The Author's Epitaph
Made by Himself
-The Faerie Queene
-Amoretti
-Epithalamion
Beginning of Drama
English Drama
Thomas Kyd, Nicholas Udall, George Peele, John Lyly, Robert Greene
University Wits
Early Elizabethan Drama
-Hero and Leander, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
-Doctor Faustus
-Blow, Blow, Thou Wind; It Was a Lover and His Lass
-Sonnets
-Henry IV
-Spring the Sweet Spring, A Litany in Time of Plague
Songs and Poems of
the 16th Century
-From Ovid's Metamorphoses
-Triumph of
Death: a translation
-On Monsieur's Departure
-The Lullaby of a Lover
-The Burning Babe
-My Sweet Lesbia, There Is a Garden in Her Face, When to
Her Lute Corinna Sings
-Ulysses and the Siren
-Ode: To the Virginian Voyage
-Orchestra: A Poem of
Dancing, Judicially proving the True Observation of Time and Measure
in the Authentical and laudable use of Dancing
-Coelica---sonnet cycle
-Mustapha---closet
drama
-Song from Urania
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
The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)
-The Undertaking, The Sun Rising, The Canonization, The Flea, A
-Upon the Loss of His
Mistresses , The Lily in a Crystal, His Prayer to Ben Jonson, To His Conscience
-Redemption,
Easter, Church Monuments, The Bunch of Grapes, The Fowler, Death
-To the Infant
Martyrs, On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord, The Flaming Heart
-The Retreat, The
Night, The Waterfall
-A Dialogue Between
the Soul and Body, To his Coy Mistress, The Definition of
Love, The Garden
-On Shakespeare,
L'Allegro, Lycidas, How Soon Hath Time, When I Consider
How My Light is
Spent,
-Paradise Lost
Poetic Modes of
the Early Seventeenth Century
-The Exequy
-To Ben Jonson, A
Song
-Loving and
Beloved
-The Grasshopper
-The Story of
Phoebus and Daphne Applied
-Ode: Of Wit
-Prose
of the Early Seventeenth Century
-Of Marriage and
Single Life, From Novum Organum, From New Atlantis
-Anatomy of Melancholy
-Leviathan
-Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial
The Restoration
and the Eighteenth Century(1660-1798) (Age of Dryden)
-A Song for St.
Cecilia's Day(1827-1829), Epigram on Milton
-The Diary
-Pilgrim's Progress(1852)
-The Way of the World
-Roxana
Poetry: Augustan Modes
-Hudibras
-The Disabled
Debauchee
-The Introduction
-An Epitaph, A
True Maid
-The Lover: A
Ballad
-Verses on the
Death of Dr. Swift, Gulliver's Travels
-Dueling
-The Aims of the
Spectator
-An Essay on
Criticism (2217), Ode on Solitude, From An Essay on Man,
From The
Dunciad(Book the fourth)
-On the Death of
Dr. Robert Levet,
Translation of
Horace, Ode
-The Life of Samuel
Johnson, 11, D.
The Poetry of Sensibility
-Ode: Rule,
Britannia
-Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard
-Ode to Evening
-A Song to David
-The Deserted Village