Medieval Poetry | Middle English Poetry

The Norman Conquest brought England more than a change of rulers. When the jongleur Taillefer rode up towards Senlac ahead ...
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Impressionism – Definition and Meaning

The theory and practice of emphasizing the subjective impression a writer or character has of reality, rather than attempting to ...
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Humanism – Definition and Meaning

In the broadest sense, any system of thought or action devoted to human interests (especially to the elevation of human ...
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Symbolism – Definition and Meaning

Symbolism implies conscious and artful use of symbols, objects, actions or characters meant to be taken both literally and as ...
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Aestheticism – Definition and Meaning

Aestheticism, or the Aesthetic Movement, was a European phenomenon during the latter nineteenth century that had its chief headquarters in ...
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Imagism – Definition and Meaning

Imagism was a poetic vogue that flourished in England, and even more vigorously in America, between the years 1912 and ...
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Definition And Meaning Of Decadence

In the latter nineteenth-century in France, some proponents of the doctrines of Aestheticism, especially Charles Baudelaire, also espoused views and ...
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Irish Literary Movement Or The Celtic Revival

The term Celtic Revival applies to a school of writers who of late years have been calling attention to a ...
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Victorianism | What Is Victorianism?

Abundance of Output: By the second half of the 19th century, the Romantic movement had exhausted itself, and with the ...
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Classicism and Romanticism

The two terms Classical and Romantic introduced by Goethe and Chiller, have raised around it a tower of Babel. Much ...
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