VI. Poetical Forms

Date Epic Lyric and Ode Narrative-Descriptive Didactic

The Nut-brown Maid Chaucer (d. 1400)

James I of Scotland Lydgate

1500 Hawes Hawes

Wyat Sackville

Surrey

1600 Shakespeare Spenser Drayton

Donne P. and G. Fletcher

Cowley Herbert

Davenant Carew

Milton

Dryden Dryden Dryden

1700 Butler

Blackmore Prior Pope

Pope

Collins

Gray Johnson

Cowper

Burns Crabbe

1800 Wordsworth Coleridge

Keats Scott Shelley

Shelley Byron Byron

Tennyson Tennyson

Browning Tennyson

Tennyson Browning

Arnold Arnold

D. G. Rossetti Swinburne

1900