The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) -- Anglo-Saxon literature. The dream of the rood ; Beowulf. -- Anglo-Norman literature. Marie De France. -- Middle English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Sir Gawain and the green knight ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; William Langland ; Julian of Norwich ; Margery Kempe ; The York play of the crucifixion ; Sir Thomas Malory. -- The sixteenth century (1485-1603) Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder ; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ; The English BIble ; Elizabeth I ; Edmund Spenser ; Sir Walter Ralegh ; Sir Philip Sidney ; Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke ; Christopher Marlowe ; William Shakespeare ; Thomas Nashe. -- The early seventeenth century (1603-1660) John Donne ; Amelia Lanyer ; Ben Jonson ; Mary Wroth ; Thomas Hobbes ; George Herbert ; Robert Herrick ; Richard Lovelace ; Katherine Philips ; Andrew Marvell ; Margaret Cavendish ; John Milton. -- The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1785) John Dryden ; John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester ; Aphra Behn ; Jonathan Swift ; Alexander Pope ; Eliza Haywood ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ; William Hogarth ; Samuel Johnson ; James Boswell ; Thomas Gray ; William Collins ; William Cowper ; Olaudah Equiano ; Frances Burney.