Characteristics of Elizabethan Poetry Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516-47) George Gascoigne (1525-77) Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536-1608) Edmund Spenser…
British Chaucerian Thomas Hoccleve (1369 – 1426) John Lydgate (1370 – 1449) Stephen Hawes ( 1475-1525) John Skelton (1460 – 1529) Alexander Barclay (1474 –…
Geoffrey Chaucer William Langland (1332-1386) John Gower (1332-1408) John Barbour (1316-1395) Gawain Poet/Pearl Poet NTA UGC NET Previous Years from Chaucerian Period
Poets Philippe de Thaun: 13th C. Earliest Anglo-Norman poet. Patronized by Adelaide of Louvaine, Queen of Henry I His poem: Livre des Creatures on astronomy, written in 1119,…
Old English/Anglo Saxon Pagan Poems Old English Religious Poetry Caedmon and Cynewulf both wrote on Biblical & Religious themes. Caedmon: Wrote on the themes of…
The doctrine that the priest, at the sacrament of the Mass, miraculously changes the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of the Christ.…
This theory claims excessive authority for the priesthood. For example: It claims supernatural powers of the priests.
Areas/Syllabus We can clearly divide the NTA NET syllabus and West Bengal SET Syllabus in two parts: First, The Literary Part, Second The Technical Part.…
British Novel/Fiction/Short Stories Major Elizabethan to Romantic Fiction/Novel/Short Story Sir Thomas Malory – Morte d’Arthur Sir Thomas More- Utopia Sir Philip sidney – Arcadia Sir…
Brian Aldiss (1925-) English novelist and critic. Popular as a science fiction writer. Works: Frankenstein Unbound (1973) Paul Auster Recently in 2002 his novel “The…