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c.750- Epic poem following the life and journey of a hero called Beowulf. It shows the events from the time of his arrival to Herot until his death.
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Was filled with Romances, Lyrics, and Ballads. Was the emerging of the national identity.
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Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, it is a combination of tales told by the people on their pilgrimage to Canterbury
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Written by Sir Thomas Malory, it follows the last battle of King Arthur against Sir Mordred, a traitor of Camelot.
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A time where the most exciting and dynamic events took place. Full of rich history, powerful literature, and great masterpieces of art.
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Sir Philip Sidney wrote many sonnets, such as Sonnet 31 and 39, in Petrarchan form which was divided into two parts, an eight line octave with a rhyme scheme of abba abba and a six line sestet with a rhyme scheme of cdecde
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Edmund Spenser gives the England many powerful sonnets such as Sonnet 1, 35, and 75 which showed us a balance of harmony between humanity and the universe.
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Unlike the Spenserian and Petrarchan sonnets, William Shakespeare contained three quatrains and a rhyming couplet at the end. Its rhyme scheme was abab cdcd efef gg as used in Sonnets 29, 106, 116, and 130.
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One of Shakespeare most famous play, we follow a young lord life as he is exposed to the lust of power and is shown in the end that with power comes heartache.
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A period full of history starting with a beheading of a king and ends with a revolution along the English Channel. Shows the thoughts of many spectators.
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His poetry fell neatly into two contradictory parts. On one side was his wild and youthful works such as "Song" and on the other side was his sober and mature works like "Holy Sonnet 10" and Meditation 17".
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Written by Ben Jonson, the poem is marking the occasion of his son Benjamin's death.
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One of Andrew Marvell's poems, it contains witty puns and fanciful imagery that expresses ideas, theories, and wordplay.
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An Epic poem written by John Milton giving an explanation on why God allows suffering in the world.
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Jonathan Swift's story satirizes such as intolerance of religion, education, and government ignorance.
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This period is a transition from the discovery of the outer world to understanding of one's inner world. The writings celebrates both the hearts and the minds of the rebels and dreamers.
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In his works "The Lamb" and "The Tyger", Blake passes from the innocence of the Lamb to the darker awareness of the Tyger.
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Inspired by a waking dream, Mary Shelley thought of Frankenstein during a challenge of the best ghost stories between Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and other friends.
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written by Samuel Coleridge based off a dream, the ancient mariner shows that everything in the world that God created is made equal and should be treated that way.
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This period reflects the rise and fall of Britsh power. It shows England climb to the top of the mountain and then its slow steady decline back down.
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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin. His father was a lawyer and a well-known portrait painter. Yeats was educated in London and in Dublin, but he spent his summers in the west of Ireland in the family's summer house at Connaught.
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written in memory of his best friend, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a 130+ section poem about the lost of his greatest friend.
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In so much love, Robert and Elizabeth Browning wrote many love poems such as Life in Love, Love Among the Ruins, and Sonnet 43 to express the love they share for each other.
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Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.
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James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses. James Joyce was born in Dublin, on February 2, 1882.
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He wrote a great variety of poetry, short stories, and novels such as The Jungle Books and Captains Courageous
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(September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) American publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth century's major poets."
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(11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, in 1885. Though better known as a novelist, Lawrence's first-published works were poems, and his poetry, especially his evocations of the natural world, have since had a significant influence on many poets on both sides of the Atlantic.
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This period shows the voices from the Commonwealth of Nations (countries where Queen of England serves as the figure head) speaking out against government and giving their point of view of how the world is changing and developing.
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Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant. He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer.
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In poems like The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, and Wehn You Are Old are all poems that showed the peril that the world is coming too.
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George Orwell describes how the Burma Imperialism has influenced his decisions whether it was for the good or the worse.
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A collection of seven books written by J.K. Rowling about the young life and struggle of a wizard.
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written by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, the story follows Will Burrows, a 14-year-old archaeologist, who stumbles upon an underground civilization called The Colony.
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c.458- The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife's Lament were three poems about exile, or a prolonged stay away from home that is forced upon a person.
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Translated by Anne Savage, is a combination of the fragments of the history before it was written knitted together in a book
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This time period produces the rich cultural hertiage that lays the foundations for the British Tradition.
