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Beowulf is an epic poem in Old English set in the pagan world of 6th-century Scandinavia. It was likely written in the early decades of the eleventh century.
The Beowulf poet, writing in the first decades of the eleventh century after Christianity had reached Britain, describes events set centuries before, involving Scandanavian pagans sometime between 700 – 800 CE.
Marie de France was an Anglo-French writer of tales, fables, and at least one hagiography.
"Lanval" is one of twelve extant Breton lais by Marie de France. The lais are chivalric tales written in Anglo Norman.
Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 18/19, 1374) was a key figure in the Italian Renaissance.
Il Canzoniere (Song Book), also known as the Rime Sparse (Scattered Rhymes).
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The anonymous author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is known variously as the Gawain Poet and the Pearl Poet, after The Pearl, one of the four poems bound together in the Cotton MS Nero A X: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience. The poems were likely composed towards the end of the fourteenth century but the Cotton MS, the only surviving manuscript, was written by a different scribe, probably early in the fifteenth century.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was probably composed in the West-Midlands region of Britain at the end of the fourteenth century and written out early in the fifteenth.
Nothing is known of the authorship of Everyman. There is general agreement that it was written in the late medieval period: "The play was written near the end of the fifteenth century. It is probably a translation from a Flemish play, Elckerlijk (or Elckerlyc) first printed in 1495, although there is a possibility that Everyman is the original, the Flemish play the translation. There are four surviving versions of Everyman, two of them fragmentary" (Jokinen).
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet.
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The somonynge of every man, or Everyman, as it is usually called, was written in the late medieval period and printed c. 1530. Everyman is the first printed book we have read in this course as printing was only developed in the fifteenth century, in Europe.
Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was a soldier, courtier, and poet.
Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 1599) was an English poet.
Edmund Spenser wrote this sequence of 89 sonnets about his courtship of and marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.
Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier.
Thomas Wyatt's sonnet is a translation of Petrach's Rime Sparse 190.
Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright and poet.
William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was a poet and dramatist.
Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645), poet
John Donne (1572– 1631) was an English poet as well as a scholar and a soldier.
Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1653) was a Renaissance poet.
This tragedy is one of six plays attributed to Christopher Marlowe.
Containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs, Astrophil and Stella was probably composed in the 1580s.
A pastoral poem by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), published posthumously,
Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply" is one of several poems,
The Sonnets were published in 1609.
Collected in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611).
Andrew Marvell (1621 – 1678) was an English Metaphysical Poet and politician.
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) is the second-known sonnet sequence by a woman in English.
Critics argue about the accuracy of this label, and the dates, as well as the names of the poets included, is fluid.
John Donne's "The Bait" is one of several poems,
John Donne's "The Flea" was published posthumously in 1633.
Samuel Pepys, naval administrator, is best known for the diary he kept between 1659 and 1669.
"Aphra Behn, the 17th-century poet, playwright and fiction writer, was
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) was an English poet and courtier.
Literature and other art forms turned to classical (Greek and Roman) models for inspiration.
Defoe (c. 1660 – 24 April 1731) was a prolific writer in many genres, best known now for his novels.
Romantic fiction popular between approximately 1660 to 1730
The period between the restoration of the English monarchy to Charles II, and the Glorious Revolution of 1689.
Pepys's diary covered an eventful decade of London history, including the Restoration of Charles II, the Black Death of 1665, and the Great Fire of London in 1666.
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer and cleric.
is a libertine poem by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
Andrew Marvell's poem was published posthumously in 1681
Aphra Behn's poem is a complaint, from the perspective of a woman, about the inequities of heterosexual love.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (5 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was a writer
Eliza Haywood had a long and prolific literary career during which she produced plays, novels, translations, periodicals, and works in other genres.
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