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The language of the Anglo-Saxons. Old English is now known as foreighn and dead. Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses literature written in Old English, in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066. Authors: Caedmon, Cynewulf, J. R. R. Tolkien, John Milton.
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In Middle English ideas and themes from French and Celtic literature appeared. Chaucer was the first great name in this period of English literature. He introduces the iambic pentameter line, rhyming couplet and other rhymes. Authors: J. R. R. Tolkien, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower.
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Lyric poetry in English begins in the 16th century with the work the great poets such as Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard. Authors: Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser.
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English Renaissance theatre, also known as early modern English theatre, or (commonly) as Elizabethan theatre, refers to the theatre of England between 1562 and 1642. Authors: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe andBen Jonson.
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Elizabethen Lyric Poetry metaphysical poetry.The greatest of Elizabethan lyric poets is John Donne whose short love poems are involve wit and irony. Many poets of this era were preoccupied with the big questions of love, death and religious faith.
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Epic Poetry were long poems that told about heroic events. These poets include Homer and John Milton.
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Writers such as Johnathon Swift wrote satires and prose. The most popular was "Gulliver's Travels".
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The movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy. Authors: Willian Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, Willian Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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is a literary movement that represents reality by portraying mundane, everyday experiences as they are in real life. It depicts familiar people, places, and stories, primarily about the middle and lower classes of society. Realism focuses on the actual rather than the abstract. Authors: Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Rebecca Harding Davis, John W. DeForest.
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originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. Authors: Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Elliot
