British Poetry: A Greatest Hits List Titles Poets Historical Periods/ Literary Key Words Lit. Movements Allen” minstrels Medieval Period ballad “Barbara narrative poetry Faire” “Scarborough Sonnet 29 William Renaissance or Shakespearean Shakespeare Elizabethan Age Sonnet 16th Century Edmund Spenser Day I Her Name” “One Spenserian Sonnet Passionate Shepherd to Christopher Renaissance or pastoral “The His Love” Marlowe Elizabethan Age Nymph’s Reply to the Sir Walter Raleigh “The Shepherd” Be Not Proud” John Donne 17th Century “Death Jacobean era literary conceit Metaphysical poetry George Herbert (extended metaphor) “Death” His Coy Mistress” Andrew Marvell 17th Century “To Cavalier Poetry the Virgins to Make Much Robert Herrick Carpe diem “To of Time” (car-PAY DEE-em) Late 18th 19th Tyger” and Century “Tyger, “Little Lamb” by William Blake Romanticism Is Too Much with “The Us,” Wandered Lonely” by “I William Wordsworth by Percy “Ozymandias” Bysshe Shelley Wandered Lonely as a William 19th Century “I Cloud” Wordsworth Romanticism lyric World Is Too Much” “The Walks in Beauty” Lord Byron “She on a Grecian Urn” John Keats ode “Ode Percy B. Shelley “Ozymandias”
British Poetry: A Greatest Hits List Titles Poets Historical Periods/ Lit. Movements Literary Key Words “Barbara Allen” “Scarborough Faire” minstrels Medieval Period ballad narrative poetry Sonnet 29 “One Day I Her Name” William Shakespeare Edmund Spenser Renaissance or Elizabethan Age 16th Century Shakespearean Sonnet Spenserian Sonnet “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” Christopher Marlowe Sir Walter Raleigh Renaissance or Elizabethan Age pastoral “Death Be Not Proud” “Death” John Donne George Herbert 17th Century Jacobean era Metaphysical poetry literary conceit (extended metaphor) “To His Coy Mistress” “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time” Andrew Marvell Robert Herrick 17th Century Cavalier Poetry Carpe diem (car-PAY DEE-em) “Tyger, Tyger” and “Little Lamb” by William Blake “The Is Too Much with Us,” “I Wandered Lonely” by William Wordsworth “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley Late 18th 19th Century Romanticism “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “The World Is Too Much” “She Walks in Beauty” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” “Ozymandias” William Wordsworth Lord Byron John Keats Percy B. Shelley 19th Century Romanticism lyric ode
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