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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.
In Europe, the Early Modern period lasts roughly from 1550 to 1750, spanning the Baroque period and ending with the Age of Enlightenment and the wars of the French Revolution. The Early Modern period in Persia corresponds to the rule of the Safavid dynasty. In Japan, the "Early Modern period" (Edo period) is taken to last down to 1868 (the ...
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]
Early Modern Literary Studies. Early Modern Literary Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of English literature and literary culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was established in 1995 and is published with the support of the Humanities Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.
Nigel Smith is a literature professor and scholar of the early modern world. He is William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature and Professor of English at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1999. [1][2] He is best known for his interdisciplinary work, bridging literature and history, on 17th ...
The Early Modern Research Centre (EMRC) at the University of Reading brings together scholars in English, history, politics, and classics. The centre supports Master's students pursuing degrees in early modern English and early modern history. The EMRC sponsors academic conferences, colloquia, and seminars and hosts the Palgrave Macmillan book ...
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]
Notable works. The Canterbury Tales. Signature. Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈtʃɔːsər / CHAW-sər; c.1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [ 1 ] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [ 2 ]