Narrative poetry

The Finnsburgh Fragment (ca. 725)

The Waldere Fragments (ca. 770)

Beowulf (ca. 750)

The Battle of Maldon (ca. 995)

The Owl and the Nightingale (ca. 1210)

Sir Orfeo (ca. 1330)

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342/43 - 1400)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

John Milton (1608-1674)

Edward Young (1683-1765)

George Crabbe (1754-1832)

Alfred Tennyson (1809-92)

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)