Historic background Literary Movements: Oxford movement Aesthetic Movement Pre-rapaelite Movement/Brotherhood Science-religion Conflict Victorian poetry Early Phase (1837-1848) Mid (1848-1870) Late (1870-1901) Characteristics: Realism Focus on…
Background European Renaissance Renaissance = from Latin word ‘rinascere’ meaning Rebirth (of the classical antiquity or culture), European artists turned back to the ancient Greek…
Social History/Literary/Linguistic Background Witnessed wars like: The War of the Roses, Cade’s Rebellion Wyatt and Surrey introduced the sonnet to England. Henry V – 1413,…
Lecture: What is the Origin of English? Lecture: How Middle English Language is Different from Old English? War and France (Hundred Years’ War) The Hundred…
Social History/Literary/Linguistic Background Look Back Settlement of Jutes, Saxons and Angles in Britain 449 – 547 Christianity introduced into Kent by St. Augustine 597, into…
Historical Background Celts -500 BCE – Celtic language Gales – invaded the western and northern parts of the country. Britons – occupied present day England…
Saxon Kings Norman/France Kings Plantagenet Kings Monarchs of England and Wales House of Lancaster House of York The Tudors Monarchs of England, Wales, Ireland British…
Old English Period (500 – 1066) Celts (Arrived C 500 BCE) Were divided in different tribes: Gales, Britons Celtic language is the origin of modern…
Who wrote The Life of Johnson? Boswell malvolio is a character in: Twelfth Night In which poem the line occurs: “Our sweetest songs are those…
The exodus(exit) of Greek scholars and artists from their country started after- The fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Turks. 1453 The exodus…