English 12 authors
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Geoffrey Chaucer | The Middle Ages / Medieval Period: 1066-1485 The Canterbury Tales |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Renaissance: 1485-1650 Speech to the Troops at Tilbury On Monsieur's Departure |
| Edmund Spencer | Renaissance: 1485-1650 Sonnet 30 and Sonnet 75 |
| Sir Philip Sidney | Renaissance: 1485-1650 Sonnet 31 and Sonnet 39 |
| Christopher Marlowe | Renaissance: 1485-1650 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Renaissance: 1485-1650 The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd |
| William Shakespeare | Renaissance: 1485-1650 Macbeth Sonnet 116 and Sonnet 130 |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Renaissance: 1485-1650 Of Studies |
| King James version | Renaissance: 1485-1650 Genesis and Psalm 23 |
| John Donne | Renaissance: 1485-1650 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
| Jonathan Swift | The Restoration and Period of Enlightenment: 1640-1780 A Modest Proposal, and Gulliver's Travels |
| William Blake | The Romantic Period: 1750-1837 The Lamb, The Tyger, London, and The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence / Experience) |
| William Wordsworth | The Romantic Period: 1750-1837 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Romantic Period: 1750-1837 Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Lord Byron | The Romantic Period: 1750-1837 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
| Percy Shelley | The Romantic Period: 1750-1837 Ode to the West Wind |
| John Keats | The Romantic Period: 1750-1837 Ode to a Grecian Urn |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Victorian Age: 1837-1901 Crossing the Bar Ulysses |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The Victorian Age: 1837-1901 Sonnet 43 |
| Robert Browning | The Victorian Age: 1837-1901 My Last Duchess |
| Matthew Arnold | The Victorian Age: 1837-1901 Dover Beach |
| Charles Dickens | The Victorian Age: 1837-1901 Oliver Twist |
| A.E. Housman | The Victorian Age: 1837-1901 To an Athlete Dying Young When I was One-and-Twenty |
| Thomas Hardy | The Victorian Age: 1837-1901 The Darkling Thrush The Man He Killed Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? |
| George Orwell | The Modern Age: 1901-1950 1984 Shooting an Elephant |
| Katherine Mansfield | The Modern Age: 1901-1950 A Cup of Tea |
| William Butler Yeats | The Modern Age: 1901-1950 Sailing to Byzantium The Second Coming |
| D.H. Lawrence | The Modern Age: 1901-1950 The Rockinghorse Winner |
| Winston Churchill | The Modern Age: 1901-1950 Be Ye Men of Valor |
| Dylan Thomas | The Modern Age: 1901-1950 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night |
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