English Literature people and poems

The Hill We Climb

Amanda Gorman

Vision (2)

Sherman Alexie

“This Is Just To Say”

William Carlos Williams (1)

Easter Wings

Geroge Herbert

Between Walls

William Carlos Williams (2

Naming of Parts

Henry Reed

Musée des Beaux-Arts

W.H. Auden

To Women, As Far As I’m Concerned

D.H. Lawrence

If

Rudyard Kipling

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

William Wordsworth

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

Craig Raine

Because I Could Note Stop For Death

Emily Dickinson

O Captain! My Captain!

Walt Whitman

Church Going

Phillip Larkin

Limericks

Edward Lear

Sonnet 12

William Shakespeare (time)

The New Colossus

Emma Lazarus

The Soldier

Rupert Brooke

They

Sigfried Sassoon

Casualty

Seamus Heaney

V.

Tony Harrison

Negro

Langston Hughes

Caedmon’s Hymn

658-680

Beowulf

8th c.; 10th c.

The Wanderer

5th or 6th c.?; 10th c.

Wulf and Eadwacer

10th century manuscript

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

1386-1400

The Book of Margery Kempe

1430s

Middle English Literature

1066-1485

Renaissance Literature

1485-1660

The Faerie Queene

1590; 1596, Edmund Spenser

Astrophil and Stella

1604; 1616, Sir Philip Sidney

Doctor Faustus

1604; 1616, Cristopher Marlowe

Romeo and Juliet

ca. 1595, William Shakespeare

A Valediction: Of Weeping

1603, John Donne (2)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

1603, John Donne (2)

Old English Literature

7th c.-1066