Works and Authors Flashcards
Beowulf
Unknown author. Epic poem.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Unknown author. Narrative poem.
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer. A collection of 24 stories.
Le Morte d’Arthur
Sir Thomas Mallory. Prose (rework).
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser. Epic poem.
Like as a Huntsman
Edmund Spenser. Sonnet.
On Monsieur’s Departure
Queen Elizabeth I. Poem.
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Queen Elizabeth I. Speech.
A Farewell to Arms
Sir George Peele. Lyric poem.
Sonnet 15/You that do Search
Sir Phillip Sidney. Sonnet.
Sonnet 19/On Cupid’s Bow
Sir Phillip Sidney. Sonnet.
Sonnet VI/Delia
Samuel Daniel. Petrarchan sonnet.
Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare. Sonnet.
Sonnet 64
William Shakespeare. Sonnet.
Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare. Sonnet.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare. Play, comedy.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare. Play, tragedy.
Henry V
William Shakespeare. History play.
On the Life of Man
Sir Walter Raleigh. Poem.
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe. Play, tragedy.
Orchestra, or a Poem on Dancing
Sir John Davies. Poem.
To Penshurst
Ben Jonson. Poem.
The Sunne Rising
John Donne. Poem.
The Flea
John Donne. Poem.
Meditation XVII
John Donne. Poem (two-paragraph meditation).
To the Ladies
Lady Mary Chudleigh. Poem.
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe. Novel.
The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope. Mock-epic poem.
The Furniture of a Woman’s Mind
Jonathan Swift. Poem.
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
William Blake. A collection of illustrated poems.
The Little Black Boy
William Blake. Poem.
Holy Thursday
William Blake. Poem.
The Chimney Sweeper
William Blake. Poem.
The Garden of Love
William Blake. Poem.
London
William Blake. Poem.
The Human Abstract
William Blake. Poem.
A Poison Tree
William Blake. Poem.
The Sick Rose
William Blake. Poem.