The Summary of Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
“When April comes with his sweet, fragrant showers, which pierce the dry ground of March, and bathe every root of ...
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Which pilgrims does Chaucer idealize in The Canterbury Tales
The Knight, the Sergeant at the Law, the Parson, the Plowman, and the Manciple are idealized by the narrator in ...
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The Wife of Bath’s Tale Match Her Personality in The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath’s tale has several parallels to her personality. For, the “worthy woman from Bath” wants to be ...
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Confessional Poetry – Definition & meaning
Confessional Poetry designates a type of narrative and lyric verse, given impetus by Robert Lowell’s Life Studies (1959), which deals ...
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Victorian Poetry – Definition & Meaning
Decay of faith and spread of industrialism form the background of Victorian poetry. Victorian period was one of tremendous change. ...
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The Romantic Revival of English Poetry Or, Romantic Poetry
Definition of Romanticism: Romanticism has been defined as a renaissance of wonder’ and ‘addition of strangeness to beauty’. It implies ...
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Transitional Poetry | Precursors of Romantic Revival
Eighteenth century was an age of reason. The poets of the period believed in an instrument of finding the truth ...
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The Classical School of Poetry | Neo Classicism
The Age of Pope (broadly speaking the period from 1702 to 1740) is called the classical or neo-classical or pseudo-classical ...
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Define Puritan Poetry
The Puritans had their songsters who included Andrew Marvell and John Milton. The Civil War made a breach in the ...
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Define Cavalier Poetry
Among the poets who had written verses lamenting the death of Donne had been Thomas Carew (1598-1639), one of the ...
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