Timeline of English Literature

Kenilworth Marino Faliero Sardanapalus The Essays of Elia Imaginary Conversations Ismael and Other poetrys Constitutional History of England History of Ireland Oedipus Tyrannus Life of Byron Eugene Aram he Last Essays of Elia Pauline Prometheus Bound Sartor Resartus Irish Melodies Lake Reminiscences Last Days of Pompeii Remains in Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam Yarrow Revisited Paracelsus Sketches by Boz Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries The French Revolution The Pickwick Papers Nicholas Nickleby Oliver Twist Catherine Hyperion The Yellowplush Papers The Irish Sketchbook The Paris Sketch Book On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History The Old Curiosity Shop Voices of the Night American Notes Lays of Ancient Rome A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas Modern Painters Past and Present System of Logic The Luck of Barry Lyndon Vanity Fair Dombey and Son Evangeline Pendennis Principles of Political Economy The Book of Snobs History of England The Caxtons David Copperfield In Memoriam Rebecca and Rowena Sonnets from the Portuguese The Prelude The Stones of Venice The Subjection of Women Literary Essays and Characters from the Literature of Europe Men's Wives My Novel Bishop Blougram Apology Hiawatha Maud Aurora Leigh Little Dorrit The Virginians Dry Sticks Faggoted Essay on Liberty Scenes of Clerical Life A Tale of Two Cities Adam Bede Idylls of the King Silas Marner Three Ghost Stories Utilitarianism Our Mutual Friend Great Expectations Spanish Gypsy The Queen of the Air The Ring and the Book Middlemarch Aftermath Autobiography Legend of Jubal Daniel Deronda An Autobiography Crossing the Bar Demeter and Other poetrys Milton WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR DEFEATS HAROLD AT THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS THE SEALING OF MAGNA CARTA THE PLAGUE (BLACK DEATH) ARRIVES IN ENGLAND WARS OF THE ROSES BEGINS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IS BORN GUY FAWKES AND THE GUNPOWDER PLOT ARE DISCOVERED THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO QUEEN VICTORIA BECOMES QUEEN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION RESTORATION GLORIOUS REVOLUTION BATTLE OF BLENHEIM UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND STAMP ACT THE RISING OF 1381 Ecclesiastical History Canterbury Tales Book of the Duchesse Utopia New Testament The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville The Book of Martyrs Epithalamion The Shepheardes Calender Dr Faustus The Jew of Malta A Midsummer Night's Dream The Defence of Poesy Essays The Merchant of Venice Every Man in His Humour Henry IV The Alchemist Henry V As You Like It Twelfth Night Hamlet Othello Advancement of Learning Macbeth Volpone or The Fox King Lear Sonnets The Faerie Queene The Wisdom of the Ancients New Method The New Atlantis Religio Medici The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living The Leviathan The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying Hudibras Annus Mirabilis The Pilgrim's Progress Absalom and Achitophel Hind and Panther Essay concerning the Human Understanding A Letter from Italy Tale of a Tub Essay on Criticism Cato Rape of the Lock Robinson Crusoe Journal of the Plague The Conscious Lovers Dunciad London Essay on Man Pamela Joseph Andrews Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Roderick Random Ode on the Death of Thomson The Vanity of Human Wishes Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Amelia Peregrine Pickle An Essay on the External Use of Water The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom The History and Adventures of an Atom History of England A Dictionary of the English Language Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful The Bard The Progress of Poesy The Reprisal: or, The Tars of Old England Rasselas Theory of Moral Sentiments The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves The Vicar of Wakefield Travels Through France and Italy The Deserted Village The Expedition of Humphry Clinker She Stoops to Conquer Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Olney Hymns Table Talk The Village John Gilpin The Task Songs of Innocence Auld Lang Syne Reflections on the Revolution of France Tam o' Shanter Scots Wha Hae A Red, Red Rose The Battle of Sherramuir The Holly Tree Joan of Arc Kubla Khan Cowslips Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Lyrical Ballads Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Pleasures of Hope Ye Mariners of England Thalaba the Destroyer The Battle of the Baltic poetrys Lay of the Last Minstrel Odes and Epistles Marmion English Bards and Scotch Reviewers Lady of the Lake The Curse of Kehama The Lady of the Lake Sense and Sensibility Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Count Julian Life of Nelson Pride and Prejudice The Excursion Waverley Emma Christabel Old Mortality Biographia Literaria Isabella Lalla Rookh Northanger Abbey Ozymandias Rob Roy Endymion Persuasion View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages Don Juan Ivanhoe Lamia On Indolence Tales of the Hall The Cenci Hyperion Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Nightingale Ode to a Skylark Ode to Psyche Ode to the West Wind The Cloud Confessions of an English Opium-Eater The Globe Theater Opened The Globe theatre was burned down Teaching Existed at Oxford ALL WORKS The Printing Press (1476) Anatomy of Melancholy An Apology for Poetry The Anglo-Norman or Middle English period The Renaissance Period  The Neoclassical Period The Romantic Period The Victorian Period The Anglo-Saxon or Old English Period  The Modern Period The Contemporary Period THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION GREAT PLAGUE OF LONDON THE ROMAN CONQUEST THE DANISH INVASION THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR Geoffrey Chaucer SIR THOMAS MORE John Foxe EDMUND SPENSER SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Francis Bacon CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BEN JONSON Thomas Hobbes JOHN BUNYAN JOHN DRYDEN Joseph Locke DANIEL DEFOE JONATHAN SWIFT Henry Fielding DAVID HUME William Collins Tobias Smollett Adam Smith EDMUND BURKE Edward Gibbon GEORGE CRABBE WILLIAM BLAKE Robert Burns WILLIAM WORDSWORTH SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Robert Southey Jane Austen CHARLES LAMB THOMAS CAMPBELL Thomas Moore Thomas De Quincey LORD BYRON or GEORGE GORDON PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY John Keats Thomas Carlyle ELIZABETH B. BARRETT LORD TENNYSON or ALFRED TENNYSON WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY CHARLES DICKENS John Ruskin GEORGE ELIOT Lord Lytton Archiver Project The Elizabethan Age The Jacobean Era The Caroline Age (1625–1649)