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1276:. Nevertheless, print publication by women poets was still relatively scarce when compared to that of men, though manuscript evidence indicates that many more women poets were practising than was previously thought. Disapproval of feminine "forwardness", however, kept many out of print in the early part of the period, and even as the century progressed women authors still felt the need to justify their incursions into the public sphere by claiming economic necessity or the pressure of friends. Women writers were increasingly active in all genres throughout the 18th century, and by the 1790s women's poetry was flourishing. Notable poets later in the period include 1360: 132: 193: 1243: 1868: 743: 940: 1550: 669:(1558–1603). In poetry is characterized by a number of frequently overlapping developments. The introduction and adaptation of themes, models and verse forms from other European traditions and classical literature, the Elizabethan song tradition, the emergence of a courtly poetry often centred around the figure of the monarch and the growth of a verse-based drama are among the most important of these developments. 1466: 35: 4132: 2753: 2104:, although the last of these belongs at least as much to the history of Irish poetry. These poets were all, in their early days at least, politically active on the Left. Although they admired Eliot, they also represented a move away from the technical innovations of their modernist predecessors. A number of other, less enduring, poets also worked in the same vein. One of these was 1694: 1540: 1834:. Yeats, although not a modernist, was to learn a lot from the new poetic movements that sprang up around him and adapted his writing to the new circumstances. Hardy was, in terms of technique at least, a more traditional figure and was to be a reference point for various anti-modernist reactions, especially from the 1950s onwards. 2185:. As with the poets of the First World War, the work of these writers can be seen as something of an interlude in the history of 20th century poetry. Technically, many of these war poets owed something to the 1930s poets, but their work grew out of the particular circumstances in which they found themselves living and fighting. 1130:(1608–1674), wrote during this period of religious and political instability. He is generally seen as the last major poet of the English Renaissance, though his major epic poems were written in the Restoration period. Some of Milton's important poems were written before the Restoration (see above). His later major works include 1196:, wrote satirical verse. Their satire was often written in defence of public order and the established church and government. However, writers such as Pope used their gift for satire to create scathing works responding to their detractors or to criticise what they saw as social atrocities perpetrated by the government. Pope's 384:'s 12th century Anglo-Norman epic of the same name; Layamon's language is recognisably Middle English, though his prosody shows a strong Anglo-Saxon influence remaining. Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the greatest poets of England. Other transitional works were preserved as popular entertainment, including a variety of 1850:
and then in World War I, gave the book widespread appeal due to its nostalgic depiction of brave English soldiers". The poems' wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and the fact
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is generally considered a greater poet, whose contribution to Victorian Poetry is of a standard equal to that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Rossettis' poetry shares many of the concerns of the Pre-Raphaelite movement: an interest in Medieval models, an almost obsessive attention to visual detail
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John Clare came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of
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in 1474 provided the means for the more rapid dissemination of new or recently rediscovered writers and thinkers. Caxton also printed the works of Chaucer and Gower and these books helped establish the idea of a native poetic tradition that was linked to its European counterparts. In addition, the
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had, in its years in France, learned a worldliness and sophistication that marked it as distinctively different from the monarchies that preceded the Republic. Even if Charles had wanted to reassert the divine right of kingship, the Protestantism and taste for power of the intervening years would
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Towards the end of the 18th century, poetry began to move away from the strict Augustan ideals and a new emphasis on the sentiment and feelings of the poet was established. This trend can perhaps be most clearly seen in the handling of nature, with a move away from poems about formal gardens and
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To the Romantics, the moment of creation was the most important in poetic expression and could not be repeated once it passed. Because of this new emphasis, poems that were not complete were nonetheless included in a poet's body of work (such as Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel"). This
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in 1535 accelerated the process of questioning the Catholic world-view that had previously dominated intellectual and artistic life. At the same time, long-distance sea voyages helped provide the stimulus and information that underpinned a new understanding of the nature of the universe which
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Additionally, the Romantic movement marked a shift in the use of language. Attempting to express the "language of the common man", Wordsworth and his fellow Romantic poets focused on employing poetic language for a wider audience, countering the mimetic, tightly constrained Neo-Classic poems
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age, and contemporary admiration for the classical world extended to the poetry of the time. Not only did the poets aim for a polished high style in emulation of the Roman ideal, they also translated and imitated Greek and Latin verse resulting in measured rationalised elegant verse. Dryden
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Elizabethan poems and plays were often written in iambic meters, based on a metrical foot of two syllables, one unstressed and one stressed. However, much metrical experimentation took place during the period, and many of the songs, in particular, departed widely from the iambic norm.
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from Italy into England in the early 16th century. Wyatt's professed object was to experiment with the English tongue, to civilise it, to raise its powers to those of its neighbours. Much of his literary output consists of translations and imitations of sonnets by the Italian poet
901:(1608–74) is considered one of the greatest English poets, and wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval. He is generally seen as the last major poet of the English Renaissance, though his most renowned epic poems were written in the Restoration period, including 1003:, the points of a compass represent two lovers, the woman who is home, waiting, being the centre, the farther point being her lover sailing away from her. But the larger the distance, the more the hands of the compass lean to each other: separation makes love grow fonder. The 1142:, 1671. Milton's works reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated 999:, and taking as his subject matter both Christian mysticism and eroticism, Donne's metaphysical poetry uses unconventional or "unpoetic" figures, such as a compass or a mosquito, to reach surprise effects. For example, in "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", one of Donne's 1026:
Another important group of poets at this time were the Cavalier poets. The Cavalier poets wrote in a lighter, more elegant and artificial style than the Metaphysical poets. They were an important group of writers, who came from the classes that supported King
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By and large, however, Anglo-Saxon poetry is categorised by the manuscripts in which it survives, rather than its date of composition. The most important manuscripts are the four great poetical codices of the late 10th and early 11th centuries, known as the
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wrote in relative obscurity and his work was not published until after his death. His unusual style (involving what he called "sprung rhythm" and heavy reliance on rhyme and alliteration) had a considerable influence on many of the poets of the 1940s.
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movement emphasised the creative expression of the individual and the need to find and formulate new forms of expression. The Romantics, with the partial exception of Byron, rejected the poetic ideals of the 18th century, and each of them returned to
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With the consolidation of Elizabeth's power, a genuine court sympathetic to poetry and the arts in general emerged. This encouraged the emergence of a poetry aimed at, and often set in, an idealised version of the courtly world.
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or in songbooks that included printed music to enable performance. These performances formed an integral part of both public and private entertainment. By the end of the 16th century, a new generation of composers, including
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the late Augustan voice is blended with a peasant's first-hand knowledge to produce arguably some of the finest nature poetry in the English language. Another contemporary poet who does not fit into the Romantic group was
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is a satirical slaying of two of his literary adversaries (Lewis Theobald, and Colley Cibber in a later version), expressing the view that British society was falling apart morally, culturally, and intellectually.
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While Anglo-Norman or Latin was preferred for high culture, English literature by no means died out, and a number of important works illustrate the development of the language. Around the turn of the 13th century,
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is a constant in this poetry whose fears and anxieties also speak of a world of spiritual certainties shaken by the modern discoveries of geography and science, one that is no longer the centre of the universe.
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world and they grew up in a period of social, economic and political turmoil. Perhaps as a consequence of these facts, themes of community, social (in)justice and war seem to dominate the poetry of the decade.
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based on counting syllables rather than stresses. These quantitative metres were based on classical models and should be viewed as part of the wider Renaissance revival of Greek and Roman artistic methods.
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and others. In England, the most cohesive groupings can, in retrospect, be seen to cluster around what might loosely be called the modernist tradition and draw on American as well as indigenous models.
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falls into this group. The Metaphysical poets went out of favour in the 18th century but began to be read again in the Victorian era. Donne's reputation was finally fully restored by the approbation of
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The Victorian era continued into the early years of the 20th century and two figures emerged as the leading representative of the poetry of the old era to act as a bridge into the new. These were
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long before this start date. A number of medieval poets had, as already noted, shown an interest in the ideas of Aristotle and the writings of European Renaissance precursors such as Dante.
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which, together, played a major role in establishing and disseminating the norms and etiquettes of grass-roots poetry workshops and readings one finds throughout the UK poetry scene today.
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British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of "Little Magazines", David Miller and Richard Price (British Library UK & Oak Knoll Press USA, 2006).
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and entered a period of rapid expansion. This expansion, combined with increasing industrialisation and mechanisation, led to a prolonged period of economic growth. The
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range from A.D. 608 right through to A.D. 1000, and there has never been anything even approaching a consensus. It is possible to identify certain key moments, however.
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The Brownings spent much of their time out of England and explored European models and matter in much of their poetry. Robert Browning's great innovation was the
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poets or English-language modernism, and their works were a proof of the importance of later English experimental poets as it broadened the scope of the English
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and the school of Spenser. However, the boundaries between these three groups are not always clear and an individual poet could write in more than one manner.
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and elsewhere. In Great Britain, movement for social change and a more inclusive sharing of power was also growing. This was the backdrop against which the
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The early 17th century saw the emergence of this group of poets who wrote in a witty, complicated style. The most famous of the Metaphysicals is probably
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and clear, sharp language, that marked the beginning of a revolution in the way poetry was written. English poets involved with this group included
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Brooke and Sassoon were to go on to win reputations as war poets and Lawrence quickly distanced himself from the group and was associated with the
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literary movement in the English language. This was an early, 20th-century, Anglo-American, modernist, poetry movement that favoured precision of
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of England, beginning in 1111 the Anglo-Saxon language rapidly diminished as a written literary language. The new aristocracy spoke predominantly
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show that it was not unique in its time. Other genres include much religious verse, from devotional works to biblical paraphrase; elegies such as
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Much of the poetry of the period is difficult to date, or even to arrange chronologically; for example, estimates for the date of the great epic
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The poets who began to emerge in the 1930s had two things in common; they had all been born too late to have any real experience of the pre-
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that several early 20th-century composers set it to music helped its popularity. Housman published a further highly successful collection
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are all examples of the influence of classicism on Elizabethan poetry. It remained common for poets of the period to write on themes from
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teemed with humorous invention and were aimed at a well-educated readership. The most famous collection of Victorian comic verse is the
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by Shakespeare, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality, were first published in a 1609 quarto.
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A number of young poets working in what might be termed a modernist vein also started publishing during this decade. These included
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for inspiration, though each drew something different from Milton. They also put a good deal of stress on their own originality.
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were slow in coming to England, with the generally accepted start date being around 1509. It is also generally accepted that the
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It was with the 14th century that major works of English literature began once again to appear; these include the so-called
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658–680), who was, according to legend, an illiterate herdsman who produced extemporaneous poetry at a monastery at
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The 1940s opened with the United Kingdom at war and a new generation of war poets emerged in response. These included
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landscapes by urban poets and towards poems about nature as lived in. The leading exponents of this new trend include
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extended until the Restoration in 1660. However, a number of factors had prepared the way for the introduction of the
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were the first major grouping of the post-Victorian era. Their work appeared in a series of five anthologies called
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calls for nonviolence in protest and political action. It is perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of
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With a small number of exceptions, the early years of the 16th century are not particularly notable. The Douglas
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English Renaissance poetry after the Elizabethan poetry can be seen as belonging to one of three strains; the
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and Shearsman Books promoted poetic diversity, while independent poetry presses such as Cinnamon press and
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The reputation of Chaucer's successors in the 15th century has suffered in comparison with him, though
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was a late 1960s and early 1970s wide-reaching collection of groupings and subgroupings that embraces
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painting of the day. Although primarily concerned with the visual arts, a member of the inner circle,
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were much more formally a group of poets, meeting for weekly discussions under the chairmanship of
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wrote poems that were transitional between the late Medieval and Renaissance styles. The new king,
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and became a citizen in 1927. Other English modernists include the London-Welsh poet and painter
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was a mid-19th century arts movement dedicated to the reform of what they considered the sloppy
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translated all the known works of Virgil, and Pope produced versions of the two Homeric epics.
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helped bring the ideas and attitudes associated with the new learning to an English audience.
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continued to expand too, and are still active. Some poets who emerged in this period include
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Thomas Weber, "Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor," Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 28–29.
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is the only heroic epic to have survived in its entirety, but fragments of others such as
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The last quarter of the 18th century was a time of social and political turbulence, with
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A number of women poets of note emerged during the period of the Restoration, including
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are widely studied. A group of Scottish writers arose who were formerly believed to be
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were helping to bring the art of Elizabethan song to an extremely high musical level.
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Something we have that they don't: British & American poetic relations since 1925
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In the early part of the 1960s, the centre of gravity of mainstream poetry moved to
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Translations of classical poetry also became more widespread, with the versions of
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anthology both introduced the group to a wider audience and gave them their name.
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Towards the end of the century, English poets began to take an interest in French
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While the poetry that has survived is limited in volume, it is wide in breadth.
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Three other factors in the establishment of the English Renaissance were the
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was written before circa A.D. 700, when excerpts were carved in runes on the
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Other poets associated with Extremist Art included Plath's one-time husband
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The Romantics were not the only poets of note at this time. In the work of
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as well as the legacy of Pound, Jones, MacDiarmid, Loy and Bunting, the
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