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Antiquity
[8th Century BCE] Hesiod, Works and Days
[c450 BCE] Empedocles
[ca99-55 BCE] Lucretius, On the Nature of Things "A Cow Morning Her Calf," "Empedocles Eulogized"
[c70-19BCE] Virgil, The Georgics; The Æneids
[c43BCE-17] Ovid, Metamorphoses, "The Golden Age," "The Story of Baucis and Philemon," "The Fable of Cyparissus," "The Pythagorean Philosophy"
Renaissance
1580 | Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
1593 | Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
1593 | Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
1597 | Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part Two
1600 | Shakespeare, As You Like It
1602 | Shakespeare, Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will
c1603 | Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
1609 | Shakespeare, Cymbeline
Age of Enlightenment
1713 | Alexander Pope, Windsor Forest
1733 | Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
1726 | James Thomson, Winter
1727 | James Thomson, Summer
1728 | James Thomson, Spring
1730 | James Thomson, Autumn
1743 | William Shenstone, Pastoral Ballad, "Hope"
Romantic Age
1773 | Anna Barbould, The Mouse's Petition
1785 | Robert Burns, To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest
1787 | Robert Burns, On Scaring Some Water-Fowl in Loch Turit
c1787 | John Wolcot, A Moral Reflection on the [Royal Bullocks] Elegy
c1787 | John Wolcot, Ballade to a Fish of the Brooke
1789 | Robert Burns, On a Wounded Hare
1789 | William Blake, Auguaries of Innocence
1789 | William Blake, The Fly
1789 | William Blake, Book of Thel
1789 | William Cowper, The Task
1790 | William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1793 | William Blake, For Children: The Gates of Paradise
1793 | William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion
1794 | John Bidlake, To the Red-Breast
1794 | John Bidlake, Written at Mount Edgcumbe
1794 | Samuel Coleridge, To a Young Ass
1796 | John Bidlake, To the Sea
1797-8 | Samuel Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Marinier
1798 | Rev. C. Hoyle, Ode to Humanity
1798 | William Wordsworth, Lines Written in Early Spring
1800 | John Bidlake, The Summer's Eve
1800 | William Wordsworth, Hart-Leap Fall
1806 | William Wordsworth, The Robin Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly
1807 | George Crabbe, The Parish Register
1808 | Lord Byron, Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog
1813 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab, A Philosophical Poem
1815 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude
1817-8 | Percy Bysshe Shelley Revolt of Islam
1821 | Lord Byron, Cain
1823 | Lord Byron, Don Juan
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Antiquity
[8th Century BCE] Hesiod
[c450 BCE] Empedocles
[ca99-55 BCE] Lucretius
[c70-19BCE] Virgil
[c43BCE-17] Ovid
Renaissance
[1554-1586] Philip Sidney
[1564-1616] Shakespeare
Enlightenment
[1688-1744] Alexander Pope
[1700-1748] James Thomson
[1714-1763] William Shenstone
Romantic Age
[1759-1796] Robert Burns
[1731-1800] William Cowper
[1755-1814] John Bidlake
[1788-1824] Lord Byron
[1743-1825] Anna Barbould
[1757-1827] William Blake
[1754–1832] George Crabbe
[1772-1834] Samuel Coleridge
[18th-19thc] Rev. C. Hoyle
[1738-1819] John Wolcot
[1738-1819] Peter Pindar
[1792-1822] Percy Shelley
[1764-1823] Anne Radcliffe
[1770-1850] William Wordsworth
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