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Medieval
Poetic Text: St. Patrick’s Breastplate by St. Patrick
Fiction Text: Paradisio by Dante Aligheri
Non-fiction Text: The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
Non-text Text: The Taming the Tarasque from “Hours of Henry VIII”nknown
Another Genre: The York Plays, anonymous
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Early Modern
Poetic Text: Poetic Works by Alexander Pope
Fiction Text: The Castle of Ontranto by Horace Walpole
Non-fiction Text: Natural Theology by William Paley
Non-text Text: The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen
Another Genre: Mid-Summer Nights Dream by Shakespeare
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Romantic
Poetic Text: Apollo Musagetes by Matthew Arnold
Fiction Text: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Non-Fiction: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Non-text text: Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya
Another Genre: The Children of the City by Michael Maybrick
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Modern
Poetic Text: Lemond Hound by Sina Queyras
Fictional text: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Non-fiction text: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Non-text text: Stepping Out by Roy Lichtenstein
Another Genre: Information For Foreigners by Griselda Gambaro
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Post Colonial
Poetic Text: Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo
Fictional Text: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiechi
Non-fiction Text: The Wretched Earth by Frantz
Non-text text: The TED Talk, The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Adichie
Another Genre: Orientalism by Edward Said