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. …
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 …
War Poets Or War Poetry
The outbreak of war in 1914 stirred many young soldiers to poetry. They tried to express their new found sense …
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 …
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 …
Define Puritan Poetry
The Puritans had their songsters who included Andrew Marvell and John Milton. The Civil War made a breach in the …
Define Cavalier Poetry
Among the poets who had written verses lamenting the death of Donne had been Thomas Carew (1598-1639), one of the …
Define Metaphysical Poetry
The term “Metaphysical” was first applied to poetry by Dr. Johnson who borrowed it from Dryden’s phrase “he affects the …
Elizabethan Poetry | Song and Sonnet Writers of Elizabethan Age
Elizabethan England was suited to the growth of highly imaginative and lyrical poetry. It begins with the first efforts of …
