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Pages in category "10th-century English writers" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Mobile view ...
The inter-influence of French and English literature can be studied in the Breton romances and the romans d'aventure even better than in the epic poetry of the period. The Lay of Orpheus is known only through an English imitation, Sir Orfeo; the Lai du cor was composed by Robert Biket, an Anglo-Norman poet of the 12th century (Wulff, Lund, 1888).
10th–11th centuries [174] Somadeva Suri: South Indian Jain monk and author of the Upāsakādyayana, a central text of Digambara śrāvakācāra literature: 10th century [175] Sosei (素性) One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals: 859–923 [90] Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi: Astronomer in Iran: 903–986 [176] Sugawara no Michizane (菅原 道真 ...
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English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.
This page is part of the List of years in poetry.The List of years in poetry and List of years in literature provide snapshots of developments in poetry and literature worldwide in a given year, decade or century, and allow easy access to a wide range of Wikipedia articles about movements, writers, works and developments in any timeframe.
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
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