English 20 Timeline

Caedmon’s hymn

medieval (500-1500 ce)

Cuckoo’s Song

medieval (500-1500 ce)

The Wanderer

medieval (500-1500 ce)

Beowulf

medieval (500-1500 ce)

Lanval, Marie de France

medieval (500-1500 ce)

Lord Randal, Anglo-Scottish border ballad

medieval (500-1500 ce)

Sonnet 2, Shakespeare

Renaissance (1500-1700)

Whoso List to Hunt, They Flee From Me, Thomas Hunt

Renaissance (1500-1700)

Astrophil and Stella (1 and 71), Sir Philip Sidney

Renaissance (1500-1700)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Christopher Marlowe

Renaissance (1500-1700)

The Nymph’s Reply, Sir Walter Raleigh

Renaissance (1500-1700)

The Sun Rising, The Good Morrow, Air and Angels (John Dunne)

Renaissance (1500-1700)

Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia (Katherine Phillips)

Renaissance (1500-1700)

To His Coy Mistress, the Mower’s Song, The Garden (Andrew Marvell)

Renaissance (1500-1700)

On my first daughter/son (Ben Jonson)

Renaissance (1500-1700)

Lycidas (John Milton)

Renaissance (1500-1700)

Paradise Lost (Milton)

Renaissance (1500-1700)

The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare)

Renaissance (1500-1700)

Othello, Act 3.3 (Shakespeare)

Renaissance (1500-1700)

elegy written in a country churchyard (Thomas Gray)

neo-classical/18th century (1680-1800)

the rambler, Samuel Johnson

neo-classical/18th century (1680-1800)

Evelina, Fanny Burney

neo-classical/18th century (1680-1800)

A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mary Wollstonecraft)

neo-classical/18th century (1680-1800)

Nuns Fret Not, Songs of Innocence and Experience, Tintern Abbey, Nutting, I wandered lonely as a cloud, Ode: Intimations of Immortality (William Wordsworth)

Romanticism (1800-1850)

This lime-tree bower my prison (samuel taylor coleridge)

Romanticism (1800-1850)

To a sky-lark (Percy Shelley)

Romanticism (1800-1850)

Ode to a Nightingale (Keats)

Romanticism (1800-1850)

“London” William Blake

Romanticism (1800-1850)

Persuasion (Austen)

Romanticism (1800-1850)

The Starlight Night, Pied Beauty (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Victorian/19th century (1850-1900)

Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen

modernism

The Unknown Citizen, WH Auden

modernism

Adam’s Curse, No Second Troy (WB Yeats)

modernism

Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Victorian/19th century (1850-1900)

The Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill

Victorian/19th century (1850-1900)

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

modernism

Night Funeral in Harlem, Langston Hughes

early 20th century American/Harlem Renaissance (1900-1940)

The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois

early 20th century American/Harlem Renaissance (1900-1940)

Elizabeth Bishop

post-modernism (1960-2000)

Here, no Goodbyes (Paul Monette)

post-modernism (1960-2000)

Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)

post-modernism (1960-2000)

Hofn (Seamus Heaney)

post-modernism (1960-2000)

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan)

post-modernism (1960-2000)

The Prophet’s Hair (Salman Rushdie)

post-colonial

The Embassy of Cambodia (Zadie Smith)

post-colonial

Checking Out (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

post-colonial

Aubade with burning city (Ocean Vuong)

contemporary

I lock you in an American sonnet (Terrence Hayes)

contemporary

Sonnet 2 (Jen Bevins)

contemporary

Couplets: A love story, Maggie Millner

contemporary

Tradition and the Individual Talent (Rowan Ricardo Phillips), Lord Randal

contemporary

Dolly Parton/Beyonce Jolene

contemporary