The Victorian Age (1830-1900) The Victorian age in English literature, though commonly associated with the reign of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne in 1837, does not exactly cover the period of that august Queen’s reign. This designation, however, is particularly given because of the importance of the age of Queen Victoria and its effect on the literature of … Read more
Victorian Era Poetry Literature is always the mirror of the age. This is borne out in no age so faithfully as in The Victorian Age. The literary history of this age bears out the influences of the social forces that were at work during that age. Science, rational thoughts, technological advancement, religious controversies and movements and … Read more
The Age of Shakespeare Hello and welcome back to another article. In this article, we are going to enter what we broadly call the Shakespearean Age. This age includes the whole period extending from the accession of Elizabeth in 1558 to the death of James I in 1625. These 67 years are divided into three … Read more
Modernism Modernism is a literary and cultural andan international movement which flourished in the first four decades of the 20th century. It reflects a sense of cultural crisis which was both exciting and disquieting, in that it opened up a whole new vista of human possibilities at the same time as putting into question any … Read more
Middle English Romances: The Gawain Poet Out of the northwestern wilds, from Lancashire or western Yorkshire, emerged the unnamed figure of another great poet, one whose masterpiece, Gawain and the Green Knight, is the most exquisitely wrought and proportioned, in some respects the greatest, poem in Middle English. Three other poems–Patience, Purity, The Pearl – … Read more
One of the literary historians called the Elizabethan age as a nest of singing birds about the composition of poetry in this period.
The Elizabethan and Jacobean Ages In the history of English literature, the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods are both referred to as “The Age of Shakespeare.” This epoch is known as the “Golden Age of Literature.” It runs from Elizabeth’s accession in 1558 to James I’s death in 1625. It was a time of peace, economic … Read more
The term “romanticism†has been used to refer to a certain artist, poets, and writers as well as political, philosophical, and social thinkers of the late eighteen and early to mid-nineteenth centuries. In literature, romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, the cult of “sensibility†with emphasis on women and children, the heroic isolation, of the artist or narrator, and respect for a new, wilder untrammelled and pure nature.
SUMMARY OF RESTORATION PERIOD The Restoration period covers the reign of Charles II (1660–1685) and the brief reign of his younger brother James II (1685–1688). The term ‘Restoration’ is not only used to describe the event by which the monarchy was restored to England but also the period from 1660 to 1700 that witnessed an … Read more
THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL The revolt against Classical Movement became visible in 1726, when James Thomson published the first part of ‘The Seasons’. The poem was different both in matter and manner from any writing during the previous hundred years. The followers of Dryden and Pope abused the classical method of writing. They felt that art … Read more
What Is Renaissance? The Renaissance is a European movement of thought, art and literature. The ‘Renaissance’ is a French word that means rebirth or revival. In literature, it means the revival of classical learning and the emergence of the human mind from the superstitious Middle Ages. It began in Italy with the fall of Constantinople … Read more