Hamlet

Twelfth Night Renaissance

King Lear

Elizabethan Period

iambic pentameter

first writer to use modern prose in his writings

The Canterbury Tales

Middle Ages

was able to mix together different social classes

set the style for middle english literature

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight                    Middle Ages                                                             Medieval Period

use of the bob and wheel

one of the first Arthurian legends

The Flea

Meditation XVII

Jacobean era

metaphysical poet

On My First Son Jacobean Era

"Still To Be Neat"

Song To Celia

Jacobean Era

incorporated science and technology

metaphysical poet

Easter Wings

The Altar

Jacobean Era

emblematic poetry

religious poet

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Jacobean Era

Cavalier Poet (Carpe Diem)

Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?

Jacobean Era

Cavalier Poet (Carpe Diem)

To Althea, from Prison

Jacobean Era

Cavalier Poet (Carpe Diem)

To His Coy Mistress

Jacobean Era

Cavalier Poet

Paradise Lost

Jacobean Era

wanted to make religion tangible to us

Pilgrim's Progress

Restoration

work is reflective of the religious dissention that existed in late seventeenth century England

"MackFlecknoe"

"A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"

"An Essay of Dramatic Poesy"

Restoration Age (1660-1700)

first english literary critic

"flip-flopped" religions

order, rules, fitting right

"The Great Fire"

Restoration Period

was able to portray what actual life was like in London from the view of a common man 

Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Enlightenment Era

believed in the Tabula Rasa (blank slate)

believed in experience to define knowledge

Gulliver's Travels

"A modest Proposal"

Augustan Age

satirical works that pointed out the defects of the English government and social classes

Rambler

Spectator

Augustan Age

wrote periodical publications that sought to educate and inform the middle class of this time period

An Essay on Criticism

Rape of the Lock

Restoration

heroic couplet

criticized critics

Marriage a la Mode

Augustan Age

engravings that brought to light the defects of the english upper class and nobles

Vanity of Human Wishes

Dictionary of the English Language

Augustan Age

sought "to see life as it is"

wrote one of the influential dictionaries of english language

The Life of Samuel Johnson

Augustan Age

 wrote one of the first major biographies and started the trend of writing them

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

bridge between the poetic sensibility of his own generation and the Romantic revolution of the future

introduced the use of elegies and odes to get a point accross

Ode on the Poetical Character

Ode to Evening

time period?

used odes to express glory to a specific subject

Tom Jones

1749

uses the epic journey to model his novel

comic romance

Hero and Leander

Renaissance

established blank verse as dominant form in English drama.

perfected the use of narrative decasyllabic couplet in his poem Hero and Leander.

Nymph's Reply to Shepard

Renaissance

counters and makes fun of Marlowe's innocent poem "The Passionate Shepard to His Love."