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The history of literature of the early modern period (16th, 17th and partly 18th century literature), or early modern literature, succeeds Medieval literature, and in Europe in particular Renaissance literature. In Europe, the Early Modern period lasts roughly from 1550 to 1750, spanning the Baroque period and ending with the Age of ...
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE[1] or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
Elizabeth Boyle (m. 1594–1599, his death) Children. 2. Signature. Edmund Spenser (/ ˈspɛnsər /; 1552/1553 – 13 January O.S. 1599) [2][3] was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.
Mary Erler. Mary Carpenter Erler is an American literary scholar specialising in medieval and early modern English literature and printing, and on women's reading and book-ownership in the same periods. Since 2015, she has been a distinguished professor in Fordham University 's English Faculty.
Literature. Modernist literature originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterised by a self-conscious separation from traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Modernism experimented with literary form and expression, as exemplified by Ezra Pound 's maxim to "Make it new." [1]
La Pucelle d'Orléans by Voltaire (1756) Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson (1760–1765) The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis (1765–1775) O Uraguai by Basílio da Gama (1769) Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (1773) O Desertor das Letras by Silva Alvarenga (1774), a short mock-heroic epic.
A movement within Russian Futurism with practice of zaum, the experimental visual and sound poetry [77][78][79] David Burliuk, Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky. Ego-Futurism. A school within Russian Futurism based on a personality cult [77][80] Igor Severyanin, Vasilisk Gnedov. Acmeism.
The first page of Beowulf. Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. [12]