Mystery and Miracle Plays

Mystery Plays: Mystery Plays originated in the Middle Ages, during the twelfth century, from the lack of interest from the ...
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Beginning of English Drama

Drama is the most natural of all arts. It is based on one of the most fundamental of the human ...
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Movement Poets In English Literature

The Movement was a term coined in 1954 by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, to describe a ...
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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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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 ...
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Short Notes on Neo-Romanticism

The term Neo-Romanticism came to be associated with writers, musicians and artists who rejected the ideals of naturalism, realism and ...
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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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