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Jack Benjamin Edwards (born 18 October 1998) is an English YouTuber, social media influencer and author. [3] He has built an online following posting videos about books, popular culture and university life since 2016, and is associated with the internet sub-communities of BookTube , BookTok [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and EduTube .
Great Books is an hour-long documentary and biography program that aired on The Learning Channel.The series was a project co-created by Walter Cronkite and television producer Jonathan Ward under a deal they had with their company Cronkite Ward, The Discovery Channel, and The Learning Channel.
The Mother Tongue: Discusses the early stages of the English language, including Old English and Middle English. A Muse of Fire: Discusses the influence of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible on the English language as well as how Early Modern English took root in the American colonies and its influence on contemporary American English.
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 .
Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) [1] [2] was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology.
English Literature, 1500–1600: Arthur F. Kinney English Literature, 1650–1740: Steven N. Zwicker English Literature, 1740–1830: Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee English Literature, 1830–1914: Joanne Shattock English Novelists: Adrian Poole English Poetry, Donne to Marvell: Thomas N. Corns English Poets: Claude Rawson English Renaissance Drama
Geoffrey Chaucer, father of English literature. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.
The English playwrights were intrigued by Italian model: a conspicuous community of Italian actors had settled in London. The linguist and lexicographer John Florio (1553–1625), whose father was Italian, was a royal language tutor at the Court of James I , and a possible friend of and influence on William Shakespeare , had brought much of the ...