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| Era: Old and Middle English (500 Spoken and written down 700), from Denmark, about a warrior from sweden killing Grendel, caesura, kenning and alliteration. |
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| Era: Old and middle English (13th Century)seasons important. |
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| Era: Old and middle English (15th Century) love poem? seasons again, christian values. |
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| Western Wind, When will thou blow? |
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| Era: Old and middle English (16th Century) |
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| Era: Old and middle English, about the pilgrimage to canterbury, Wife of bath, author: Geoffrey Chaucer. |
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| Era: Old and middle English, Author Sir Thomas Malory, Arthur draws the sword in the stone, becomes king of England. |
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| altar -> outside -> carts -> temporary stages -> Theaters |
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| The Second Sheperd's play |
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| Era: Old and middle English (1425) a mystery play about the sheperd's have lost a sheep and accuses the scoundrel Mak. |
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| Era: the Reniassance, A morality play, Everyman been summonede by Death into the presence of God. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus made a bargain with the Devil, Lucifer later comes to collect his claim through his servant Mepistopheles. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine is a ruthless and cruel warrior, Zenocrate inspired gentleness in him. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, William Shakespeare, Hamlet has been told by his father's ghost who the murderer is, dilema to kill the king or not. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, William Shakespeare, The dying of John of Gaunt. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, William Shakespeare, Prospero deposed by his brother, lonley island with daugther, brings new set of people, throwing away magic, returns to native country. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, Ben Jonson, Scoundrel Volpone fooling everyone that he is dying, later boasts with mosca. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, John Webster, the Duchess secretly married, Brother wants to control her fortune, ex-prisoner spy, strangles them. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, William Shakespeare, when Shall we three meet again? In thunder, Lightning or in rain? |
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| Era: The Reniassance, Thomas Wyatt, refering to Anne Boleyn, Anne marrying Henry VIII. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, Thomas Wyatt, is not a sonet, she caught me, thought it was a dream. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, Michael Drayton, about two lovers parting. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, Edmund Spencer, Knight in shining armour, riding across a great plain, missioin from Gloriana, Una representing protestant faith. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, John Donne, going to bed (and then some more?) |
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| Era: The Reniassance, William Shakespeare, o misstres mine, kiss me and then some more.... |
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| To Virging to Make Much of time |
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| Era: The Reniassance, Robert Herrick, we dont have all day since when you are old no one will have you. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, Sir Philip Sidney, she is perfect and everyone wants her (and so does the speaker) |
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| Era: The Reniassance, Edmund Spencer, on a beach, we dont have eternity, let's make love. |
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| Era: The Reniassance, William Shakespeare, you are not like this, you are like that, but I still love you. |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, about a priest and how religion and politics changed |
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| Elegy Written in a County Churchyard, |
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| Era: The Eighteenth century, Thomas Gray, a guy walking in a churchyard, an Elegy. |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, John Bunyan, how dangerous pilgrimages are. |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, John Dryden, defending stuart king Charles II. |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, Samuel Pepys, a dairy of samuels life. |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, John Wilmot, Past is over, future is not here yet, the only thing we have is now, |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, William Congreve, making bargain of marrying, very odd conditions. |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, John Gay, a satire of various corruptions, womaniser and highway robber Maceath. |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, John Donne, flea has already mixed blood, may as well go all the way. |
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| A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, John Donne, about someone dying and that nothing is happening while the person does. |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, Andrew Marvell, If i could wait for all eternity i would but i cant, (Love poem) |
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| When I consider how my light is spent |
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| Era: The Sevententh century, John Milton, God does not need our talents so he can take them away as easily as we got them. |
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| Era: The Seventeenth century, John Milton Adam and Eve, all Eve's falt that they got kicked out of paradise. |
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| Era: The Eighteenth century, Jane Austen, about who is going to marry who, and about the Bennet sisters, the mother wants to mary all her daughters. |
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| An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 2 |
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| Era: The Eighteenth century, Alexander Pope, If we dont know mankind then how can we get know God etc. |
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| Era: The Eighteenth century, Jonathan Swift, use children for breeding, saves food for the poor in Ireland. |
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| Era: Romantic, WIlliam Blake, Walking through the streets of London and seeing all the weakness. |
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| Composed Upon Wstminster Bridge |
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| Era: Romantic, William Wordsworth, Seeing London rom Westminster bridge. |
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| Era: Romantic, John Keats, Fears that he may not have time to write down everything he wants to write down |
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| Era: Romantic, Percy Bysshe Shelley, different elements, the speaker wants to be like the West Wind. |
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| Era: Victorian Period, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, she must see the world from a mirror, sees Lancelot, forgets. |
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| The Charge o the Light Brigade |
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| Era: Victorian Period, Alfred, Lord tennyson, when the light brigade charged. |
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| Era: Victorian Period, Alfred, Lord tennyson, his dear friend died suddenly, poem for him |
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| Era: Victorian Period, Alfred, Lord tennyson, about his own departure and that there will be no sadness o farewell |
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| Era: Victorian, Robert Browning, God is like caliban only more powerfull, |
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| Era: Victorian, Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poem to praise God. |
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| Era: Victorian, Lewis Carrol, About Jabberwocky and someone who wonders if the Jabberwocky is slain. |
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| Era: Victorian, Leigh Hunt, about the fact that Jenny kissed the speaker. |
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| Sonnets from the Portuguese 43 |
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| Era: Victorian, Elizabeth Barret Browning, counting the ways in which i love you |
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| Era: Victorian, Robert Browning, Collector of some kind, killed his last duches and now wants a knew wife. |
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| Era: Victorian, Christina Rosseti, about a journey and that it is long, but there will be beds for all who comes |
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| Era: Victorian, Matthew Arnold, Questioning if God exists or not, is religious. |
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| Era: Victorian, Rudyard Kipling, How to behave as a Gentleman |
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| Era: Victorian, Charles Dickens, Pip seeking a fortune, Magwitch, Havisham, Jaggers. |
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| Era: Twentieth Century, E.E. Cummings, about the Grasshoper. |
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| Era: Twentieth Century, James Joyce, Stream of consciousness, a girls thought. |
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| Era: Twentieth Century, T.S. Eliot, Canterbury tales referance, Winter is better than summer |
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| Era: Twentieth Century, Rupert Brooke, very traditional, patriotic poem of being a soldier. |
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| The Love song o J. Alfred Prufrock |
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| Era: Twentieth Century, T.S. Eliot, Dante's inferno, since you are not being able to go back to earth i will tell you... |
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| Era: Twentieth Century, W. H. Auden, even if someone dies, the rest of the world still continues without noticing. |
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| Era: Twentieth Century, Philip Larkin, Mom and Dad fucks you up. |
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