Anglo-Saxon Age:
Authors Unknown
“The Seafarerâ€
Beowulf
Bede, Venerable (673-735)
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731)
Middle Ages:
Authors Unknown
“Bonnie Barbara Allan†(Scottish Folk Ballad)
“Get Up and Bar the Doorâ€
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340-1400)
Canterbury Tales:
The Prologue,
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,
The Pardoner’s Tale
Author Unknown
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight (late 14th century)
Elizabethan Age: (16th Century)
Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603)
“On Monsieur’s Departureâ€
“The Doubt of Future Woesâ€
“Speech to the Troops at Tilburyâ€
Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)
The Fairie Queene (1590)
Amoretti:
Sonnet 26: “Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a briarâ€
Sonnet 75: “One day I wrote her name upon the strandâ€
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)
Dr. Faustus (1604)
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherdâ€
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)
“To Sleepâ€
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)
“Love’s Farewellâ€
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)
“To Sleepâ€
Campion, Thomas (1562-1619)
“When to Her Lute Corinna Singsâ€
Whitney, Isabella (ca. 1540-1580)
“The Admonition by the Author to all Young Gentlewomen:
And to all other Maids being in Loveâ€
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true mindsâ€
Sonnet 18: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?â€
Sonnet 29: “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyesâ€
Sonnet 55: “Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsâ€
Sonnet 73: “That time of year thou mayst in me beholdâ€
Macbeth
Cary, Elizabeth (1585?1639)
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry
Jonson, Ben (1572-1637)
“On My First Sonâ€
“The Noble Natureâ€
“To the Memory of My Beloved master, William Shakespeare
“A Farewell to the Worldâ€
Bacon, Francis (1561?1626)
Essays (1597)
Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561-1621)
“To the Thrice-Sacred Queen Elizabethâ€
The English Bible
“Psalm 58â€
Seventeenth Century
Cavandish, Margaret (1623-1673)
“An Excuse for So Much Writ upon My Versesâ€
Donne, John (1572-1631)
“Go and Catch a Falling Starâ€
“Holy Sonnet Xâ€
“Holy Sonnet XIVâ€
“Meditation XVIIâ€
Philips, Katherine (1632-1664)
“To My Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship, 7th July 65â€
Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657)
“To Lucasta. Going to the Warsâ€
Herbert, George (1593-1633)
“The Collarâ€
Vaughan, Henry (1622−1695)
“The Retreatâ€
“Silexâ€
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674)
“To the Virgins to Make Much of Timeâ€
Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
“Bermudasâ€
“To His Coy Mistressâ€
Milton, John (1608-1674)
“O Nightingaleâ€
“How Soon Hath Timeâ€
“To a Virtuous Young Lady
“When I Consider How My Light is Spentâ€
“L’Allegro
“Il Penserosoâ€
Paradise Lost (1667)
Killigrew, Anne (ca. 1660?1685)
“Upon Being Contented with a Littleâ€
Dryden, John (1631-1700)
“An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
“A Song for St. Cecelia’s Day
Eighteenth Century
d’Arblay, Frances Burney (1752?1840)
aka Fannie Burney
Evelina (1778)
Cecelia (1782)
Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Robinson, Mary Darby (1758-1800)
“London’s Summer Morningâ€
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
“The Rape of the Lock†(1712)
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
“An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity†(1708)
Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
A Modest Proposal (1729)
Goldsmith, Oliver (ca. 1730-1774)
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) -British
“Mr. Johnson’s Preface to his Edition of Shakespeare’s Playsâ€
“The Vanity of Human Wishesâ€
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
The Rivals (1775)
Burns, Robert (1759?1796)
“A Man’s a Man for A’ Thatâ€
“O, My Love is Like a Red Red Roseâ€
“Till a’ the Seas Gang Dryâ€
“To a Mouseâ€
Blake, William (1757-1827)
“How Sweet I Roam’d From Field to Fieldâ€
“And Did Those Feet in Ancient Timeâ€
“The Clod and the Pebbleâ€
“The Lambâ€
“The Tigerâ€
Nineteenth Century
Williams, Helen Maria (1762-1827)
“A Songâ€
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
“London, 1802â€
“A Slumber Did my Spirit Sealâ€
“To the Cuckooâ€
“To a Skylarkâ€
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802â€
“Strange Fits of Passion Have I Knownâ€
“The Tables Turnedâ€
“Lines Written in Early Springâ€
Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855)
The Grasmere Journals (1897)
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1796)
Byron, Lord (1788-1824)
“Don Juanâ€
“The Prisoner of Chillonâ€
“She Walks in Beautyâ€
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
“Kubla Khanâ€
“The Rime of the Ancient Marinerâ€
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
“Ozymandiasâ€
“To a Skylarkâ€
Keats, John (1795-1821)
“Bright Starâ€
“Ode on a Grecian Urnâ€
“Ode to a Nightingaleâ€
“Posthumaâ€
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1854)
Jane Eyre (1847)
Shelley, Mary (1797- 1851)
Frankenstein (1818)
Austen, Jane (1775?1817)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Browning, Robert (1812-1889)
“Prospiceâ€
“The Lost Leaderâ€
“My Last Duchess Ferraraâ€
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
“Sonnet XIVâ€
“Sonnet Iâ€
“Sonnet XLIIâ€
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth (1861-1907)
“The Witchâ€
Newman, John Henry (1801-1890)
“The Idea of a Universityâ€
Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809-1892)
“Break, Break, Breakâ€
“The Charge of the Light Brigadeâ€
“Ulyssesâ€
“Crossing the Barâ€
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
Twentieth Century
Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
Lord Jim (1900)
Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret Smith) (1902-1971)
“Not Wavering but Drowningâ€
Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923)
“Miss Brillâ€
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
“Arabyâ€
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
“The Selfish Giant†(1888)
Saki (H.H. Munro) (1870-1916)
“The Bagâ€
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
“Without Benefit of Clergy†(1919)
Lawrence, D.H. (1885?1930)
“The Rocking Horse Winner†(1926)
Sayers, Dorothy (1893-1957)
Are Women Human? The Human-Not-Quite Human (1938)
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936)
“Terence, This is Stupid Stuff†(1896)
“The Loveliest of Treesâ€
“Be Still My Soulâ€
Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918)
“Greater Loveâ€
Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915)
“The Fishâ€
McCrae, John (1872-1918)
“In Flanders Fields†(1919)
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
“An Irish Airman Foresees His Deathâ€
“When You are Oldâ€
“The Second Comingâ€
“The White Swans at Cooleâ€
“Byzantiumâ€
Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963) -Irish
Mere Christianity (1952)
Tolkien, J.R.R. (1892 ?1973)<
The Lord of the Rings (1954)