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Date BCE Title Author Country Type
c.2000 Gilgamesh Anonymous Babylon Poetry
c.750 Iliad Homer Greece Poetry
The Odyssey Homer Greece Poetry
c.700 Theogony Hesiod Greece Poetry
Works and Days Hesiod Greece Poetry
c.610-580 Sappho's Poems Sappho Greece Poetry
c.500-440 Epinician Odes Pindar Greece Poetry
c.400BCE
  -400CE		 Mahabharata Anonymous India Poetry
300-200 The Voyage of the Argonauts Appollonius of Rhodes Greece Poetry
Idylls Theocritus Greece Poetry
Ramayana Valmiki India Poetry
c.270 Causes Callimachus Greece Poetry
c.50 On the Nature of Things Lucretius Rome Poetry
c.41-37 Eclogues Virgil Rome Poetry
c.35-30 Satires Horace Rome Poetry
c.29-16 Elegies Sextus Propertius Rome Poetry
c.29-19 Aeneid Virgil Rome Poetry
19 Odes Horace Rome Poetry
c.10 Art of Love Ovid Rome Poetry
Date CE Title Author Country Type
c.8 Metamorphoses Ovid Rome Poetry
c.100-127 Satires Juvenal Rome Poetry
c.700 Beowulf Anonymous England Poetry
c.991 The Battle of Maldon Anonymous England Poetry
c.759 Anthology of a Myriad Leaves Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
and others		 Japan Poetry
1000
  -1300		 The Poetic Edda Anonymous Iceland Poetry
c.1100 Rubáiyát Omar Khayyam Persia Poetry
Song of Roland Anonymous France Poetry
c.1100
  -1250		 Volsungsaga Anonymous Iceland Poetry
c.1140 The Poem of the Cid Anonymous Spain Poetry
c.1145 King Rother Anonymous Germany Poetry
c.1177-81 Launcelot Chrétien de Troyes France Poetry
c.1180 Lais Marie de France France Poetry
1181-90 Perceval Chrétien de Troyes France Poetry
c.1190 The Conference of the Birds Farid od-Din Attar Persia Poetry
c.1200 The Nibelungenlied Anonymous Germany Poetry
c.1200-10 Parzival Wolfram von Eschenbach Germany Poetry
1210 Tristan und Isolde Gottfied von Strassburg Germany Poetry
1230-75 Romance of the Rose Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun France Poetry
c.1250 The Saga of Burnt Njal Anonymous Iceland Poetry
Mathnawi Jalal od-Din Rumi Persia Poetry
c.1270 The Garden of Roses Musharrif od-Din Sadi Persia Poetry
1294 The New Life Alighieri Dante Italy Poetry
and prose
1307 The Divine Comedy Alighieri Dante Italy Poetry
1327 Le Rime Francesco Petrarch Italy Poetry
1348 Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio Italy Poetry
c.1350 Diwan Mohammad Shams od-Din Hafiz Persia Poetry
1352 The Triumphs Giovanni Boccaccio Italy Poetry
1362 The Vision of Piers the Ploughman William Langland England Poetry
1385-87 Troilus and Cressida Geoffrey Chaucer England Poetry
1387-90s The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer England Poetry
1387 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Anonymous England Poetry
1461 The Great Testament François Villon France Poetry
1485 Le Morte Darthur Thomas Malory England Poetry
1486 Orlando Innamorato Matteo Maria Boiardo Italy Poetry
1494 Narrenschiff Sebastian Brant Germany Poetry
1509 The Ship of Fools Alexander Barclay England Poetry
1516 Orlando Furioso Ludovico Ariosto Italy Poetry
1517 The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng John Skelton England Poetry
1572 The Lusiads Luis de Camoëns Portugal Poetry
1575 Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso Italy Poetry
1580-81 Arcadia Philip Sidney England Poetry
1589 The Faerie Queen Edmund Spenser England Poetry
c.1590-99 Satires John Donne England Poetry
Elegies John Donne England Poetry
1591 Astrophel and Stella Philip Sidney England Poetry
1599 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe England Poem
1609 Sonnets William Shakespeare England Poetry
1632 Dorothy Lope de Vega Spain Poetry
1633 The Temple George Herbert England Poetry
1648 Hesperides Robert Herrick England Poetry
1667 Paradise Lost John Milton England Poetry
1668-94 Fables Jean de La Fontaine France Poetry
1671 Paradise Regained John Milton England Poetry
Samson Agonistes John Milton England Poetry
1677 All for Love John Dryden England Poetry
1678 The Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan England Poetry
1681 To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell England Poem
Absalom and Achitophel John Dryden England Poetry
1692 Dream Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Mexico Poem
1712-14 The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope England Poem
1728-42 The Dunciad Alexander Pope England Poetry
1749 Elegy Written in a Churchyard Thomas Gray England Poem
1786 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Robert Burns Scotland Poetry
1789 Songs of Innocence William Blake England Poetry
1794 Songs of Experience William Blake England Poetry
1795 Ode to Joy Friedrich Schiller Germany Poem
1797 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge England Poem
1797-1806 Hymns and Fragments Friedrich Hölderlin Germany Poetry
1798 Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge England Poetry
1807 Poems William Wordsworth England Poetry
1810 The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott Scotland Poetry
1812 Poems Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Germany Poetry
1816 Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge England Poetry
1818 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage George Gordon Byron England Poetry
Endymion John Keats England Poetry
Ozmandias Percy Bysshe Shelley England Poem
1819-24 Don Juan George Gordon Byron England Poetry
1820 Prometheus Unbound Percy Byssche Shelley England Poetry
Odes John Keats England Poetry
1825 Boris Godunov Alexander Pushkin Russia Poetry
Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin Russia Poetry
1831-35 Canti Giacomo Leopardi Italy Poetry
1842 My Last Duchess Robert Browning England Poem
The Demon Mikhail Lermontov Russia Poem
1844 Poems Elizabeth Barrett Browning England Poetry
1845 The Raven and Other Poems Edgar Allan Poe USA Poetry
1846-63 The Book of Nonsense Edward Lear England Novel
1847 Evangeline Henry Wadsworth Longfellow USA Poetry
1850 Poems Elizabeth Barrett Browning England Poetry
In Memoriam Alfred Lord Tennyson England Poetry
The Prelude William Woodsworth England Poetry
1852 Enamels and Cameos Théophile Gautier France Poetry
1855 Men and Women Robert Browning England Poetry
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman USA Poetry
1857 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire France Poetry
1859 Idylls of the King Alfred Lord Tennyson England Poetry
1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems Christina Rossetti England Poetry
1866 Poems and Ballads Algernon Swinburne England Poetry
1868-70 The Earthly Paradise William Morris England Poetry
1869 Collected Poems Matthew Arnold England Poetry
1870-81 The House of Life Dante Gabriel Rosetti England Poetry
1873 A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud France Poetry
1874 L’Après-midi d’un faune Stéphane Mallarmé France Poetry
1881 Sagesse Paul Verlaine France Poetry
1882 Ismaelillo José Marti Cuba Poetry
1887 Poésies Stéphane Mallarmé France Poetry
1890 Poems Emily Dickinson USA Poetry
1895-99 Poems W.B. Yeats Ireland Poetry
1896 A Shropshire Lad Alfred E. Housman England Poetry
1905 Sons 0f Life and Hope Rubén Darío Nicaragua Poetry
1907 Songs of a Sourdough Robert Service Canada Poetry
1912 Poetical Works Robert Bridges England Poetry
Gitanjali: Song Offerings Rabindranath Tagore India Poetry
1914 Platero and I Juan Ramón Jiménez Spain Poetry
1915 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Eliot England Poem
Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters USA Poetry
1916 Chicago Poems Carl Sandburg USA Poetry
1917 La Jeune Parque Paul Valéry France Poetry
A Cloud in Trousers Vladimir Mayakovsky Russia Poetry
1918 The Twelve Alexander Blok Russia Poetry
Poems Gerard Manley Hopkins England Poetry
1920 Poems Wilfred Owen England Poetry
A Few Figs from Thistles Edna St. Vincent Millay USA Poetry
1921 Poems Marianne Moore USA Poetry
1922 The Waste Land T.S. Eliot England Poetry
1923 Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke Germany Poetry
New Hampshire Robert Frost USA Poetry
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost USA Poem
Tulips and Chimneys e.e. cummings USA Poetry
Harmonium Wallace Stevens USA Poetry
1925 Residence on Earth and Other Poems Pablo Neruda Chile Poetry
The Hollow Men T.S. Eliot England Poetry
1925-70 The Cantos Ezra Pound USA Poetry
1928 The Tower W.B. Yeats Ireland Poetry
1928-35 Gypsy Ballads Federico Garcia Lorca Spain Poetry
1930 The Bridge Hart Crane USA Poetry
1938 Falling of Trees Gabriela Mistral Chile Poetry
Human Poems Cesar Vallejo Peru Poetry
1940 Another Time W.H. Auden England Poetry
1942 David Earl Birney Canada Poetry
1946 Lord Weary’s Castle Robert Lowell USA Poetry
Fern Hill Dylan Thomas Wales Poem
1946-58 Paterson William Carlos Williams USA Poetry
1947 Poems for People Dorothey Livesay Canada Poetry
The Age of Anxiety W.H. Auden England Poetry
1948 Death Fugue Paul Célan Romania Poem
1951 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Dylan Thomas Wales Poem
1953 The Waking Theodore Roethke USA Poetry
1955 The Less Deceived Philip Larkin England Poetry
Howl and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg USA Poetry
1956 Let Us Compare Mythologies Leonard Cohen Canada Poetry
Things of This World Richard Wilbur USA Poetry
1958 A Coney Island of the Mind Lawrence Ferlinghetti USA Poetry
1959 Life Studies Robert Lowell USA Poetry
1960 The Woman at the Washington Zoo Randal Jarrell USA Poetry
1961 Zima Junction Yevegeny Yevtushenko Russia Poetry
1963 Selected Poems Octavio Paz Mexico Poetry
1966 Live or Die Anne Sexton USA Poetry
1969 Selected Poetry Irving Layton Canada Poetry
1971 Power Politics Margaret Atwood Canada Poetry
1972 More Poems for People Milton Acorn Canada Poetry
Selected Poems Al Purdy Canada Poetry
1975 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror John Ashbery USA Poetry
1980 A Part of Speech Joseph Brodsky Russia Poetry
1982 The Changing Light at Sandover James Merrill USA Poetry
1990 V. and Other Poems Tony Harrison England Poetry
Omeros Derek Walcott St. Lucia Poetry
 

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