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William Caxton Old/Middle English: Translation of stories about the Trojan War
John Gower Old/Middle English: "Confessio Amantis"
Margery Kempe Old/Middle English: "Book of Margery Kempe"
Geoffrey Chaucer Old/Middle English: "Troylus and Cryseyde" / "The Canterbury Tales"
William Langland Old/Middle English: "Piers Plowman"
Sir Thomas Malory Old/Middle English: "Morte d'Arthur"
Julian of Norwich Old/Middle English: "Revelations of Divine Love"
Robert Burton Renaissance/17th Century: "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
John Donne Renaissance/17th Century: "Divine Poems" / "Satires" / "The Progress of the Soul"
George Herbert Renaissance/17th Century: "The Collar" / "Easter Wings"
Robert Herrick Renaissance/17th Century: "Hesperides"
Ben Jonson Renaissance/17th Century: "Volpone" / "The the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare"
John Lyly Renaissance/17th Century: "Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit"
Christopher Marlow Renaissance/17th Century: "Doctor Faustus" / "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" / "Hero and Leander" / "Tamberlaine" / "The Jew of Malta"
Andrew Marvell Renaissance/17th Century: "To His Coy Mistress" / "Poems of Affairs of State"
John Milton Renaissance/17th Century: "Lycidas" / "Paradise Lost" / "Paradise Regained"
Thomas More Renaissance/17th Century: "Utopia"
William Shakespeare Renaissance/17th Century: "Coriolanus"
Sir Philip Sidney Renaissance/17th Century: "Defense of Posie"
Edmund Spenser Renaissance/17th Century: "Shepherd's Calendar" / The Faerie Queene"
John Webster Renaissance/17th Century: "The Duchess of Malfi"
James Boswell Restoration/18th Century: "The Life of Samuel Johnson"
John Bunyan Restoration/18th Century: "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners" / "The Pilgrim's Progress"
Robert Burns Restoration/18th Century: "To a Louse"
William Collins Restoration/18th Century: "Ode to Simplicity" / "Ode to Evening"
Daniel Defoe Restoration/18th Century: "Robinson Crusoe" / "Moll Flanders"
John Dryden Restoration/18th Century: "Absalom and Achitophel" / "Mac Flecknoe"
Oliver Goldsmith Restoration/18th Century: "The Deserted Village"
Thomas Gray Restoration/18th Century: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Samuel Johnson Restoration/18th Century: The Periodical, "The Rambler"
Samuel Pepys Restoration/18th Century: "Memoirs of the Navy"
Alexander Pope Restoration/18th Century: "An Essay of Criticism" / "An Essay on Man" / "The Rape of the Lock"
Samuel Richardson Restoration/18th Century: "Clarissa" / "The History of a Lady"
Richard Steele Restoration/18th Century: Editorials in the "Tattler"
Lawrence Stern Restoration/18th Century: "The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy"
Jonathan Swift Restoration/18th Century: "Gulliver's Travels" / "A Modest Proposal"
Mary Wollstonecraft Restoration/18th Century: "Vindication of the Rights of Women"
Jane Austen Romantic: "Northanger Abbey" / "Mansfield Park"
Byron Romantic: "Don Juan" / "Manfred"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Romantic: "Kubla Khan" / "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
William Hazlett Romantic: "Table-Talk" / "On Gusto"
John Keats Romantic: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" / Ode to a Nightingale"
Charles Lamb Romantic: "Essays of Elia"
Sir Walter Scott Romantic: "Robb Roy" / "Ivanhoe"
Mary Shelley Romantic: "Frankenstein"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Romantic: "Ozymandias" / "Mont Blanc"
Robert Southey Romantic: "The Cataract at Ladore"
William Wordsworth Romantic: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
Charlotte Bronte Victorian: "Jane Eyre"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Victorian: "Aurora Leigh"
Robert Browning Victorian: "My Last Duchess" / "Porphyria's Lover"
Charles Darwin Victorian: "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" / "The Descent of Man"
Charles Dickens Victorian: "Hard Times" / "David Copperfield" / "Great Expectations"
George Eliot Victorian: "The Mill on the Floss"
Edward FitzGerald Victorian: "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
Mrs. Gaskell Victorian: "Mary Barton"
Thomas Hardy Victorian: "The Darkling Thrush" / "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" / "The Return of the Native"
Gerard Manley Hopkins Victorian: "God's Grandeur" / "The Windhover" / "Pied Beauty"
George Meredith Victorian: "Modern Love"
John Stuart Mill Victorian: "On Liberty" / "What is Poetry" / Autobiography
John Henry Cardinal Newman Victorian: "Apologia Pro Vita Sua"
Christina Rossetti Victorian: "Goblin Market"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Victorian: "The Blessed Damozel"
John Ruskin Victorian: "Modern Painters" / "Praeteritia"
Robert Louis Stevenson Victorian: "Treasure Island" / "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" / "Kidnapped"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Victorian: "In Memoriam" / "The Lady of Shalott" / "Idylls of the King" / "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
William Makepeace Thackeray Victorian: "Vanity Fair"
Oscar Wilde Victorian: "The Importance of Being Earnest" / "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Samuel Beckett 20th Century English: "Endgame" / "Waiting for Godot"
Rupert Brooke 20th Century English: "Heaven" / "Tiara Tahiti"
Joseph Conrad 20th Century English: "The Secret Sharer" / "Nostromo" / "Lord Jim" / "Heart of Darkness"
T. S. Eliot 20th Century English: "Four Quartets" / "The Hollow Men"
E. M. Forster 20th Century English: "Howard's End" / "A Room with a View" / "Passage to India"
James Joyce 20th Century English: "The Dubliners" / "Finnegan's Wake" / "The Dead" / "Araby"
Rudyard Kipling 20th Century English: "Recessional" / "The Jungle Book" / "Puck of Pook's Hill" / "Kim"
D. H. Lawrence 20th Century English: "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" / "Sons and Lovers" / "Women in Love"
Doris Lessing 20th Century English: "The Golden Notebook"
George Orwell 20th Century English: "1984" / "Politics and the English Language"
Harold Pinter 20th Century English: "The Room" / "The Birthday Party" / "No Man's Land"
Siegfried Sassoon 20th Century English: "The Old Huntsman" / "Counter-Attack" / "Vigils"
Tom Stoppard 20th Century English: "The Real Inspector Hound" / "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
George Bernard Shaw 20th Century English: "The Devil's Disciple" / "Man and Superman" / "Major Barbara" / "Pygmalion"
Dylan Thomas 20th Century English: "Fern Hill" / "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog"
Virginia Woolf 20th Century English: "Orlando" / "Mrs. Dalloway" / "To the Lighthouse" / "A Room of One's Own"
William Butler Yeats 20th Century English: "The Wild Swans at Coole" / "The Second Coming"
William Bradford Early American: "The Mayflower Compact" / "History of Plymouth Plantation"
Anne Bradstreet Early American: "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" / "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
Jonathan Edwards Early American: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Washington Irving Early American: "A History of New York" / "Rip Van Winkle" / "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Thomas Jefferson Early American: "The Declaration of Independence"
Cotton Mather Early American: "Magnalia Christi Americana" / Transcripts from the Salem Witch Trials
Mary Rowlandson Early American: "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson"
Phillis Wheatley Early American: "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
John Winthrop Early American: "A Model of Christian Charity"
William Cullen Bryant American Romantic: "Thanatopsis"
James Fenimore Cooper American Romantic: "The Deerslayer" / "The Last of the Mohicans"
Emily Dickenson American Romantic: 1775 Poems! / "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" / "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
Frederick Douglass American Romantic: "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass"
Ralph Waldo Emerson American Romantic: "Nature" / "The American Scholar" / "Divinity School Address"
Margaret Fuller American Romantic: "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"
Nathaniel Hawthorne American Romantic: "The Marble Faun" / The Scarlet Letter"
Harriet Jacobs American Romantic: "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Romantic: "Evangeline"
Herman Melville American Romantic: "Moby Dick" / "Bartleby the Scrivener"
Edgar Allan Poe American Romantic: "The Cask of Amontillado" / "The Raven"
Harriet Beecher Stowe American Romantic: "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Henry David Thoreau American Romantic: "Civil Disobedience" / "Walden's Pond"
Walt Whitman American Romantic: "Song of Myself" / "Leaves of Grass" / O Captain! My Captain!"
Ambrose Bierce American Realism: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Kate Chopin American Realism: "The Awakening"
Stephen Crane American Realism: "The Red Badge of Courage"
Theodore Dreiser American Realism: "Sister Carrie"
Bret Harte American Realism: "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
William Dean Howells American Realism: "The Rise of Silas Lapham"
Henry James American Realism: "The Golden Bowl" / "Daisy Miller"
Sarah Orne Jewett American Realism: "Country of the Pointed Firs"
Mark Twain American Realism: ""The Prince and the Pauper"
F. Scott Fitzgerald 20th Century American: "The Great Gatsby"
Djuna Barnes 20th Century American: "The Antiphon" / "Ryder"
Saul Bellow 20th Century American: "Seize the Day"
Elizabeth Bishop 20th Century American: "North & South"
William Faulkner 20th Century American: "The Sound and the Fury" / "Sartoris" / "As I Lay Dying"
Robert Frost 20th Century American: "The Road Not Taken" / "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Allen Ginsberg 20th Century American: "Howl" / "Kaddish"
Ernest Hemingway 20th Century American: "For Whome the Bell Tolls" / "The Sun Also Rises" / "The Old Man and the Sea"
David Henry Hwang 20th Century American: "M. Butterfly"
Jack Kerouac 20th Century American: "On the Road"
Maxine Hong Kingston 20th Century American: "The Woman Warrior" / "China Men"
Denise Levertov 20th Century American: "The Poet in the World"
Jack London 20th Century American: "The Call of the Wild" / "To Build a Fire"
Archibald MacLeish 20th Century American: "J. B."
Edgar Lee Masters 20th Century American: "Spoon River Anthology"
Arthur Miller 20th Century American: "Death of a Salesman" / "The Crucible"
Eugene O'Neill 20th Century American: "Long Day's Journey into Night"
Thomas Pynchon 20th Century American: "Gravity's Rainbow" / "V." / "The Crying of Lot 49"
Adrienne Rich 20th Century American: "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" / "Diving into the Wreck"
Edwin Arlington Robinson 20th Century American: "Lancelot" / "Richard Cory" / "Minniver Cheevy"
Theodore Roethke 20th Century American: "My Papa's Waltz"
Gertrude Stein 20th Century American: "The Making of Americans"
John Steinbeck 20th Century American: "The Grapes of Wrath" / "Tortilla Flat" / "Of Mice and Men"
Wallace Stevens 20th Century American: "Harmonium" / "Ideas of Order"
Amy Tan 20th Century American: "The Kitchen God's Wife"
Alice Walker 20th Century American: "Everyday Use" / "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" / "The Color Purple"
Eudora Welty 20th Century American: "The Optimist's Daughter"
Edith Wharton 20th Century American: "Ethan Frome" / "The House of Mirth" / "The Age of Innocence"
Tennessee Williams 20th Century American: "A Streetcar Named Desire"
William Carlos Williams 20th Century American: "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Richard Wright 20th Century American: "Native Son" / "Black Boy"
Aristophanes World Literature - Greek: "The Birds" / "Lysistrata"
Aristotle World Literature - Greek: "Poetics"
Euripedes World Literature - Greek: "Medea"
Homer World Literature - Greek: "The Illiad" / "The Odyssey"
Plato World Literature - Greek: "The Republic"
Sophocles World Literature - Greek: "Oedipus the King" / "Antigone"
Virgil World Literature - Roman: "The Aeneid"
Niccolo Machiavelli World Literature - Italian: "The Prince"
Miguel de Cervantes World Literature - Spanish: "Don Quixote"
Moliere World Literature - French: "Tartuffe"
Voltare World Literature - French: "Candide"
Gustave Flaubert World Literature - French: "Madame Bovary"
Fyodor World Literature - Russian: "The Brothers Karamazov"
Dostoyevsky World Literature - Russian: "Crime and Punishment"
Leo Tolstoy World Literature - Russian: "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" / "War and Peace" / "Anna Karenina"
Anton Chekhov World Literature - Russian: "The Cherry Orchard"
Vladimir Nabokov World Literature - Russian: "Ada"
Henrik Ibsen World Literature - Norwegian: "The Doll's House"
Thomas Mann World Literature - German: "Death in Venice" / "The Magic Mountain"
V. S. Naipaul World Literature - Trinidadian: "A House for Mr. Biswas"

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