Poetry

Ancient · 11

• The Iliad — Homer, c. 800 BC · trans. Samuel Butler
• The Odyssey — Homer, c. 700 BC · trans. Samuel Butler
• Beowulf — Anonymous, c. 1000 · trans. J. Lesslie Hall
• The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri, c. 1320 · trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Eclogues — Virgil, c. 38 BC · trans. J.W. MacKail
• Georgics — Virgil, c. 29 BC · trans. J.W. MacKail
• Satires — Horace · trans. John Conington
• The Aeneid — Virgil, c. 19 BC · trans. John Dryden
• The Art of Love — Ovid, 2 BC · trans. Henry T. Riley
• The Metamorphoses — Ovid, 8 AD · trans. J. J. Howard
• The Odes — Horace, 23 BC · trans. John Conington

Medieval · 2

• La Vita Nuova — Dante Alighieri, 1295 · trans. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Troilus and Criseyde — Geoffrey Chaucer, 1385

Renaissance · 7

• The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1400 · trans. D. Laing Purves (ed.)
• Orlando Furioso — Ludovico Ariosto, 1532 · trans. William Stewart Rose
• Jerusalem Delivered — Torquato Tasso, 1581 · trans. Edward Fairfax
• The Faerie Queene — Edmund Spenser, 1590
• Venus and Adonis — William Shakespeare, 1593
• The Rape of Lucrece — William Shakespeare, 1594
• The Shepheardes Calender — Edmund Spenser

17th-18th C · 10

• Sonnets — William Shakespeare, 1609
• Paradise Lost — John Milton, 1667
• Paradise Regained — John Milton, 1671
• The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems — Alexander Pope, 1714
• An Essay on Man — Alexander Pope, 1734
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell — William Blake, 1790
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience — William Blake, 1794
• Lyrical Ballads — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798
• Lycidas — John Milton

19th Century · 22

• Alastor — Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1816
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage — Lord Byron, 1818
• Endymion — John Keats, 1818
• Lamia — John Keats, 1820
• Poems Published in 1820 — John Keats, 1820
• Prometheus Unbound — Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820
• Selected Poems — Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820
• Adonais — Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821
• Don Juan — Lord Byron, 1824
• Poems — Emily Brontë, 1846
• The Princess — Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1847
• In Memoriam A.H.H. — Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1850
• Sonnets from the Portuguese — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850
• The Prelude — William Wordsworth, 1850
• Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman, 1855
• Men and Women — Robert Browning, 1855
• Aurora Leigh — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1856
• Idylls of the King — Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1885
• Poems — W.B. Yeats, 1895
• The Wind Among the Reeds — W.B. Yeats, 1899
• Poems — Matthew Arnold
• The Hunting of the Snark — Lewis Carroll

20th Century · 6

• Gitanjali — Rabindranath Tagore, 1912
• Responsibilities — W.B. Yeats, 1914
• The Wild Swans at Coole — W.B. Yeats, 1919
• Poems — T.S. Eliot, 1920
• Michael Robartes and the Dancer — W.B. Yeats, 1921
• The Waste Land — T.S. Eliot, 1922

Authors · 30

Alexander Pope · Alfred Lord Tennyson · Anonymous · Dante Alighieri · Edmund Spenser · Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Emily Brontë · Geoffrey Chaucer · Homer · Horace · John Keats · John Milton · Lewis Carroll · Lord Byron · Ludovico Ariosto · Matthew Arnold · Ovid · Percy Bysshe Shelley · Rabindranath Tagore · Robert Browning · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · T.S. Eliot · Torquato Tasso · Virgil · W.B. Yeats · Walt Whitman · William Blake · William Shakespeare · William Wordsworth · William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge