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Landmarksof EnglishPoetry

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What do you expect when you read a poem

from old English or from the early modernCentury.

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The language is different

Themes are different

Rhymes and meters are different

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The earliest poem was written in akind of English that is now difficult tounderstand.

Modern English started around thetime of William Shakespeare,towards the end of the 16th century.

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Literary Periods

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Click on a literary periodto learn more about itOld English

Middle English

Renaissance Neoclassical

Romanticism Victorian Modernism Postmodernism

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Old English Years 450-1066

Difficult to read the language

Literary Example: Beowulf, author unknown

The oldest epic poem- Beowulf- appeared probably in

the 7th century

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Beowulf Hwt! We Gardena ingeardagum,eodcyninga, rym gefrunon,hu a elingas ellen fremedon.

Oft Scyld Scefing sceaenareatum,

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monegum mgum, meodosetlaofteah,

egsode eorlas. Syan restwearfeasceaft funden, he s frofregebad,weox underwolcnum, weormyndum ah,

ot him ghwylc araymbsittendra

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ofer hronrade hyran scolde,gomban gyldan. t ws god

cyning!

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Let us Listen to this Prologue of Beowulf

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Middle English Years 1066-1500

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Literary Example Sir Thomas Malory- Le Morte DArthur

Geoffrey Chaucer(1340-1400)-Canterbury Tales (31 people- each of

them- 2 stories but 23 stories only)-

different people different society

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Renaissance Years 1500-1660

Flourishing of arts and literature

Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Milton wrote during this

time

Literary Example: John Miltons Paradise Lost

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Shakespeare is

most famousfor his plays.

His sonnets

,however,belong to the

best English

poetry.

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John Donne

John Milton

Byron

John Keats

WordsworthRobertFrost

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Neoclassical Years 1660-1785

Includes The Restoration.

Poetic example: The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander

Pope

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Romanticism Years 1785-1830

Includes the Gothic Period

Poetic Example:Adonais, by Shelly

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Modernism Years 1914-1945

Literature begins taking a more recognizable form

Poetic Example: The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot.

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PostmodernismContemporary Years 1950-present

Our current literary period

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Review Question During which literary period did

Shakespeare write?

A. Middle EnglishB. Renaissance

C. Neoclassical

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Incorrect. Middle English was before Shakespeare,

and included The Canterbury Tales.

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Correct! Good job! Shakespeare wrote during the

Renaissance, which occurred from 1500-

1660.

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Incorrect. The Neoclassical period came after

Shakespeare, and included Gullivers

Travels by Jonathan Swift.

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1.Poetry often follows special

patterns of rhythm and rhyme.

2. The earliest English poetry is

easy to understand now.

3. Modern English came into being

around the middle of the 17thcentury.

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