07-24-2008, 06:03 PM
Can't name any British authors besides Shakespeare?
That's okay - Here's a quick little guide to British Literature Through the Ages:
Geoffrey Chaucer - 1343 - 1400The Canterbury Tales Sir Thomas Malory - 1405 - 1471Le Morte d'Arthur Edmund Spenser - 1552 - 1599The Faerie Queene Christopher Marlowe - 1564-1593Tamburlaine
Hero and Leander
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love John Bunyan - 1628 - 1688The Pilgrim's Progress Jonathan Swift - 1667 - 1745Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal William Blake - 1757 - 1827Songs of Innocence and Experience Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1772 - 1834The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan Jane Austen - 1775 - 1817Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma Lord Byron - 1788 - 1824So, we'll go no more a roving
She Walks in Beauty John Keats - 1795 - 1821Ode on a Grecian Urn
La Belle Dame sans Merci William Wordsworth - 1770 - 1850I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The world is too much with us Charles Dickens - 1812 - 1870A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities Lewis Carroll - 1832 - 1898Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass Oscar Wilde - 1854 - 1900The Importance of Being Earnest Thomas Hardy - 1840 - 1928Jude the Obscure
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Rudyard Kipling - 1865 - 1936The Jungle Book T.S. Elliot - 1888 - 1965The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land J. R. R. Tolkien - 1892 - 1973The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
Roverandom Anthony Burgess - 1917 - 1993A Clockwork Orange
The Wanting Seed J. K. Rowling - 1965 - ?Harry Potter [Books and authors being added as we go.]
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