Geoffrey Chaucer
Selections from The Canterbury Tales : “General Prologue,” “Wife of Bath,” “Pardoner’s Tale,” and “Knight’s Tale” (late 14th century) ~

Anonymous
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century)

Anonymous
“Tom o’Bedlam” (around 1600)

John Donne
“Song,” “A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day,” “The Ecstasy”
“Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness,” and “A Hymn to God the Father” (early 17th century)

John Milton
Paradise Lost (1667) ~