Indentifying Authors

The Fates of the Apostles

Cynewulf

Juliana

Cynewulf

Elene

Cynewulf

Christ II (also referred to as The Ascension)

Cynewulf

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People)

The Venerable Bede

Piers Plowman

William Langland

The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, The Reeve's Tale, The Cook's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Friar's Tale, and The Summoner's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain)

King Arthur

Gorboduc

Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton

Le Morte d'Arthur (the death of Arthur)

Thomas Malory

Astrophel and Stella

Sir Philip Sidney

The Defence of Poesy

Sir Philip Sidney

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Sir Philip Sidney

Utopia

Sir Thomas More

The Practyse of Prelates

William Tyndale

The Unfortunate Traveller

Thomas Nashe

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Lie and A Farewell to False Love

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Merchent of Venice

William Shakesphere

Henry IV

William Shakesphere

Hamlet

William Shakesphere

MacBeth

William Shakesphere

Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakesphere

Julius Caesar

William Shakesphere

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Christopher Marlowe

Twelfth Night

William Shakesphere

Everyman

Author Unknown

Of Marriage and Single Life

Sir Francis Bacon

The Sun Rising

John Donne

Song

John Donne

Othello

William Shakesphere

The Canonization

John Donne

King Lear

William Shakesphere

Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

Sonnet 130

William Shakesphere

Volpone

Ben Jonson

Every Man in His Humours

Ben Jonson

The Alchemist

Ben Jonson

Death Be Not Proud

John Donne

The Tempest

William Shakesphere

Novum Organum ("new instrument")

Francis Bacon

Know, Celia

Thomas Carew

An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. John Donne

Thomas Carew

A Rapture

Thomas Carew

Loves Courtship

Thomas Carew

Of Ambition (aka Essay 36)

Francis Bacon

Lycidas

John Milton

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Song

Sir John Suckling

I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart

Sir John Suckling

Ballade upon a Wedding

Sir John Suckling

The Constant Lover

Sir John Suckling

To Althea, from Prison

Richard Lovelace

To Lucasta, Going to the Warres

Richard Lovelace

To the Virgins to Make Much of Time

Robert Herrick

The Definition of Love

Andrew Marvell

To His Coy Mistress

Andrew Marvell

Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser

The Rover

Aphra Behn

Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister

Aphra Behn

The Rape of the Lock

Alexander Pope

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

A Journal to Stella

Jonathan Swift

Drapier's Letters

Jonathan Swift

The Beggar's Opera

John Gay

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christabel

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kubla Khan

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Biographia Literaria

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Thomas Gray

The Tyger

William Blake

The Lamb

William Blake

A Poison Tree

William Blake

The Human Abstract

William Blake

London

William Blake

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

William Blake

The School for Scandal

Richard Sheridan

The Rivals

Richard Sheridan

The Rehearsal

Richard Sheridan

The Critic

Richard Sheridan

A Trip to Scarborough

Richard Sheridan

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

No Abolition of Slavery

James Boswell

Account of Corsica

James Boswell

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Radcliffe

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

Ann Radcliffe

Gaston de Blondeville

Ann Radcliffe

Joseph Andrews

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones

Henry Fielding

The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great

Henry Fielding

Tom Thumb

Henry Fielding

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Emma

Jane Austen

The Blessed Damozel

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

She Walks in Beauty

Lord Byron