Periods Works Literary Terms Writers

Old English Period Beowulf epic Caedmon

Middle English Period Genesis A and Genesis B verse Cynewulf

Renaissance / Elizabethan Period Exodus rhyme King Alfred

Christ and Satan alliteration Aelfric

Piers Plowman line William Langland

The Wanderer lyrics Sir Thomas Malory

The Battle of Maldon prose Geoffrey Chaucer

Daniel homily Shakespeare

Anglo Saxon Chronicles style Sir Thomas Wyatt

Canterbury Tales elegy The Earl of Surrey

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight miracle Edmund Spenser

Morte DArthur mystery Christopher Marlowe

Pearl morality plays Sir Walter Raleigh

Everyman interlude Sir Philip Sidney

The Shepherds Calendar allegory John Donne

The Faerie Queene symbol Francis Bacon

Essays tale Ben Johnson

The New Atlantis legend Thomas Middleton

Doctor Faustus metre John Milton

The Phoenix drama

Hamlet comedy

Paradise Lost sonnet

blank verse

form

pastoral

stanza

metaphysical

image

Metaphysical Poets

novel

simile

essay

picaresque novel

irony

Cavalier Poets

tragedy

rhythm

plot

crisis

hero

Periods Works Literary Terms Writers