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Important Dates in British Literature 1343-1827
dates of authors' lives and important works
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
12/12/2010
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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1343-1400
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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late 1300s
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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1503-1542
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Wyatt's Thy Flee From Me
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early 1500s
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Sir Edmund Spenser
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1552-1599
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Spenser's Faerie Queene
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1590
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Spenser's Epithalamion
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1595
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Sir Phillip Sydney
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1554-1586
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Sydney's Astrophil and Stella
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1580s
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Sydney's Defense of Poesy
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1595
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Christopher Marlowe
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1564-1593
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Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
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1594, "B" text 1602
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William Shakespeare
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1564-1616
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Shakespeare's Hamlet
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1599
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 94
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unknown
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Sir Francis Bacon
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1561-1626
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Bacon's Of Truth
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1625
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Bacon's Of Marriage and Single Life
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1612, 1625
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Bacon's Of Superstition
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1612, 1625
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John Donne
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1572-1631
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Donne's Songs and Sonnets (The Flea, The Good-Morrow, The Canonization, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnet 14)
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1595-1615
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Ben Johnson
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1572-1637
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Ben Johnson's Volpone
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1606
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John Milton
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1608-1674
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Milton's Paradise Lost
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1667
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Andrew Marvell
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1621-1678
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Marvell's A Dialogue Between Soul and Body, The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn, To His Coy Mistress, The Definition of Love, The Garden
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1650-1652
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John Dryden
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1631-1700
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Dryden's Mac Flecknoe
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1678/1682
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Aphra Behn
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1640-1689
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Behn's Oroonoko
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1688
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Johnathan Swift
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1667-1745
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Swift's Modest Proposal
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1739
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Swift's Gulliver's Travels
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1726 and 1735
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Swift's Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
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1739
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Alexander Pope
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1688-1744
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Pope's The Rape of the Locke
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1714
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Pope's From Epistle 2
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1733
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Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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1735
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Pope's The Triumph of Dulness (from Dunciad)
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1743
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John Gay
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1685-1732
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Gay's Beggar's Opera
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1728
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Daniel Defoe
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1661-1731
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Defoe's Moll Flanders
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1722
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Samuel Johnson
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1709-1784
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Samuel Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes
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1749
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Samuel Johnson's Rambler #4
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March 31, 1750
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Samuel Johnson's Rambler #60
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October 13, 1750
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Preface and Illustrations
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1755
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Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare
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1765
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James Boswell
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1740-1795
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Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
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1791
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Edmund Burke
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1729-1797
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Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
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1790
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William Blake
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1757-1827
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Blake's Songs of Innocence: The Chimney Sweeper, Holy Thursday, The Little Black Boy
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1789
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Blake's Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday, The Sick Rose, The Tyger, London
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1794
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Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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1790-1793
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Blake's The Mental Traveller
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unpublished
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Blake's AmericaL A Prophecy
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1793
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