English 220 Timeline
650 - 700
The Venerable Bede, 672/73 - 735
Ecclesiastical History of the English People : Caedmon’s Hymn
1200 - 1400
Medieval lyrics from the 13th - 15th centuries
Sumer is icumen in
I sing of a maiden
Bring us in good ale
My lefe is faren in londe
1300 - 1350
Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1340 - 1400
To Rosemounde
General Prologue from The Canterbury Tales
Julian of Norwich, 1342 - c. 1416
Revelations of Divine Love
1350 - 1400
Margery Kempe, c. 1373 - 1438
The Book of Margery Kempe
1400 - 1450
Sir Thomas Malory, 1415/18 - 1471
Morte Darthur : The story of Gareth
1500 - 1550
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, 1516/17 - 1547
Love that doth reign and live
Elizabeth I, 1533 - 1603
Speech to the troops at Tilbury
1550 - 1560
Edmund Spenser, 1552? - 1599
Amoretti 1, 22, 54, 64, 67
Sir Philip Sidney, 1554 - 1586
Astrophil and Stella 1, 7, 41, 52, 55, 71
Sir Walter Ralegh, 1554 - 1618
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
1560 - 1570
Christopher Marlowe, bap. 1564 - 1593
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616
Sonnets 15, 19, 20 33, 55, 60, 65, 93, 129, 130, 135, 138, 144, 147
Twelfth Night
1570 - 1580
John Donne, 1572 - 1631
The Bait
The Canonization
Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed
The Flea
Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward
The Good Morrow
Holy Sonnets 14, 18
A Hymn to God the Father
The Sun Rising
Ben Jonson, 1575 - 1637
Clerimont’s Song
1590 - 1600
Robert Herrick, bap. 1591 - 1674
Corinna’s Going A-Maying
Delight in Disorder
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Upon Julia’s Clothes
George Herbert, 1593 - 1633
The Altar
Easter Wings
The Collar
1600 - 1620
John Milton, 1608 - 1674
Paradise Lost
Sonnet 19
King James Bible, 1611
Song of Songs
1620 - 1640
Andrew Marvell, 1621 - 1678
To His Coy Mistress
John Dryden, 1631 - 1700
A Song for St Cecilia’s Day
1690 - 1700
Eliza Haywood, 1693? - 1756
Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze
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