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400
Ancient Greek Poetry (BC 7th-4th Centuries)
The Ancient Greek Poets were the pinnacle of Ancient poerty. It lasted throughout the ages from the 4th century BC to the rise of Alexander the Great. Famous Greek poets include Eisphoid, Euriptides to Homer who was considered the greatest of them all. Ancient Greek writings were made from clay tablets. -
Period: 400 to
Poetry throughout the ages
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Jan 1, 700
Early British Poetry (AD 700-1000)
Old English encompasses literature wriiten in Old English. This lasted from the 7th Century B.C times of the Anglo-Saxons to the Norman Conquest in 1066. Old English can be classified into two styles, Old English with sources from Pre-Christian German myths or the Christian style. -
Jan 1, 1500
Renaisance Era Poetry (15th and 16th Centuries)
The Renaissance in Europe was in one sense an awakening from the long slumber of the Dark Ages. What had been a stagnant, even backsliding kind of society re-invested in the promise of material and spiritual gain. There was the sincerely held belief that humanity was making progress towards a noble summit of perfect existence. How this rebirth – for Renaissance literally means rebirth – came to fruition is a matter of debate among historians. -
Metaphysical Poets (17th Century)
A century after the height of the Elizabethan era, a subtler, provocative lyric poetry movement crept through an English literary countryside that sought greater depth in its verse. The metaphysical poets defined and compared their subjects through nature, philosophy, love, and musings about the hereafter – a great departure from the primarily religious poetry that had immediately followed the wane of the Elizabethan era. Poets shared an interest in metaphysical subjects. -
Romantic Poets (1790s-1824)
The third of England’s "big three" movements completed a three-century period during which the British Isles took the Western poetic mantle from Italy and molded the forms, styles, and poems that fill school classrooms to this day. The Romantic period, or Romanticism, is regarded as one of the greatest and most illustrious movements in literary history, which is all the more amazing considering that it primarily consisted of just seven poets and lasted approximately 25 years–from William Blake. -
Victorian Poetry (1837-1901)
The Victorian Period literally describes the events in the age of Queen Victoria’s reign of 1837-1901. The term Victorian has connotations of repression and social conformity, however in the realm of poetry these labels are some what misplaced. The Victorian age provided a significant development of poetic ideals such as the increased use of the Sonnet as a poetic form, which was to influence later modern poets. Poets in the Victorian period were to some extent influenced by the Romantic Poets. -
Modernist poetry (1890-1970)
Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists. In common with many other modernists, these poets wrote in reaction to the perceived excesses of Victorian poetry, with its emphasis on traditional formalism and ornate diction.
