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Beowulf

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales (commented on class, written in English opposed to French)

Thomas Malory

Le Morte d'Arthur (Britain's hero, completed Arthurian world)

Shakespeare

Macbeth, Mistress mine, Midsummer Night's Tale (Shakespeare's company, shakesperean sonnet)

Thomas Wyatt

Whoso List to Hunt - Ceasar's dog (brought italian renessaince to England)

Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene (comments on Britain's rise in power, Spenserian stanza ABABBCBCC)

John Donne

No man is an island, Going to bed - America, newfoundland, A Valediction

Michael Drayton

Since there's no help - come let us kiss and part (first to write odes in manner of Horace)

Robert Herrick

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time - Gather ye rosebuds, Carpe diem (supported Charles II)

Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella (considered finest Elizabethan sonnet after Shakespeare)

John Bunyan

Pilgrim's Progress - Valiant-for-truth, Great-heart (symbolises road to heaven, Puritan society)

John Dryden

Annus Mirabilis - now streets grow throng (comments on 1666, fire of london, plague, tragedy)

Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys (first book in diary format, great fire of london, coronation of Charles II, everyday life)

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Love and Life - talk not of inconstancy (carpe diem)

William Congreve

The Way of the World - Millamant + Mirabell ( first /best ? comedy of manners)

John Gay

The Beggar's Opera - Mr Peachum, Lockit, scene starts with air (first ballad (satirical) opera)

Andrew Marvell

To His Coy Mistress - had we but world enough, trying to convince his lover to have sex with him, (metaphysical poem, carpe diem)

John Milton

When I consider how my light is spent - talk with god (servant for Commonwealth)

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man - know then thyself (satirical verse, heroic couplet)

Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal - Infants working to support parents, Gulliver's Travels (satirical)

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

William Blake

London - charter'd streets/thames (comments on London negatively)

William Woodsworth

Composed upon Westminster - mighty beating heart (comments upon London positively)

Lord Tennyson

Ulysses - Leopold Bloom walking though london thinking of cheating wife Molly Bloom , The Lady of Shalott, In memoriam, Charge of the Light Brigade - half a league (Ulysses introduced strwam of conciousness)

Robert Browning

My Last Duchess - notice neptune though (mastered dramatic monologue), Caliban upon Setebos - flat on his belly

Lewis Caroll

Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass - Jabberwacky (mastered portmanteau word smoke+fog=smog)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 43 - how do i love thee?

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach - talks about sea, armies clash by night (introduced literary criticism)

Charles Dickens

A christmas carol, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations (commented and influenced social injustice in Victorian Era)

E.E. Cummings

Grasshopper - makes no sense, barely legible (experimental, changed rules of poetry)

T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - balding confused man, The Waste Land - april, winter, earth (modernist poet, fragmentation)

Rupert Brooke

The soldier - if i should die, think this of me (wrote war poems during WWI)

W.H. Auden

Musee des Beaux Arts - about suffering, references icarus (wrote in every verse form)

Philip Larkin

This Be the Verse - "F*cked up" (anti-modernism, which in turn reflects modernism in his society)

Rudyard Kipling

If - all begin with "if" (father explaining to son how to live life stoic)

Percy Shelley

Ode to the west wind - anaphora "of" (radical, influenced Browning following his death)

Leigh Hunt

Rondeau - Jenny kissed me when we met (owned the journal The Examiner and a supporter of Keat's work)

Christina Rosetti

uphill - question, answer "does the road wind uphill all the way" (marked by symbolism)