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Old English epic poem, anonymous author

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Beowulf

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Old English poem, Bede; sung in honor of God the Creator

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Caedmon’s Hymn

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Sir Thomas Malory, Middle English prose about King Arthur, et al.

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Le Morte d’Arthur

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15th c. morality play re: Christian salvation

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Everyman

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mid-13th c. English round/rota; lyric poetry

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The Cuckoo Song/Summer Canon

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Renaissance (Elizabethan), Christopher Marlowe, one of first popular stage successes

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Tamburlaine the Great

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Renaissance (Elizabethan), Thomas Kyd, revenge play, hugely popular & influential in its time; blank verse

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The Spanish Tragedy

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Renaissance (Elizabethan), Christoper Marlowe, based on German stories about Faust

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Dr. Faustus

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Renaissance (Elizabethan), Christopher Marlowe, about Jewish merchant named Barabas on Malta

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The Jew of Malta

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metaphysical poet, Renaissance (Jacobean)

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John Donne

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Death’s Duel sermon

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John Donne

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Renaissance (Jacobean), empiricism, scientific & religious works

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Francis Bacon

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Ben Johnson (Jacobean), satirical drama, elements of city comedy and beast fable

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Volpone/The Fox

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when was: John Milton, Paradise Lost

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Renaissance (Caroline Age)

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George Herbert, metaphysical, Renaissance (Caroline Age)

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“The Temple,” “Easter Wings”

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Robert Herrick, cavalier poets, Renaissance (Caroline Age)

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Hesperides (includes carpe diem poem: “To Virgins, to Make Much of Time”

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Thomas Carew, cavalier poets, Renaissance (Caroline Age)

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“An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul’s, Dr. John Donne”

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Thomas Hobbs, Renaissance (Commonwealth Period), treatise arguing for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign

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Leviathan

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John Milton, Renaissance (Commonwealth Period), defense of the right of people to execute a guilty sovereign

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The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

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Renaissance (Commonwealth Period), John Hutchinson (fought in parliamentary army in the English Civil War)

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Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

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1672, John Dryden, “heroic drama,” two-part tragedy (stage play)

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The Conquest of Granada

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1712, Alexander Pope, mock-heroic narrative poem

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The Rape of the Lock

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1678, John Bunyan, theological fiction, possibly first English novel

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Pilgrim’s Progress

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1689, John Locke, political philosophy attacking patriarchalism and outlines Locke’s ideas for a society based on natural rights and contract theory

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Two Treatises of Government

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1820, John Keats, narrative poems

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Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes

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1819 John Keats, odes

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on a Grecian Urn, to a Nightingale

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~1790, Robert Burns, narrative poem, part in Scots and part in English

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“Tam o’ Shanter”

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1788, Robert Burns, song written in Scots to tune of a folk song

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“Auld Lang Syne”

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1820s, Lord Byron, satirical epic poem

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Don Juan

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1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist philosophy

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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1793, William Wordsworth, romantic poem, “loco-descriptive”

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Tintern Abbey (in Lyrical Ballads, with Coleridge)

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1798, Samuel Coleridge, narrative poem w/ personification & repetition (about a sailor)

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner (in Lyrical Ballads, with Wordsworth)

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1797, Samuel Coleridge, romantic poetry (about Xanadu)

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Kubla Khan

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Lord Byron poetry

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“She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Have Parted”

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Alfred Tennyson, 1800s, poetry

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Timbuktu, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Ulysses

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