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)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

John Milton (1608-1674)

Edward Young (1683-1765)

George Crabbe (1754-1832)

Alfred Tennyson (1809-92)