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Western literature - 17th Century, Renaissance, Epic Poetry: The 17th century was a period of unceasing disturbance and violent storms, no less in literature than in politics and society. The Renaissance had prepared a receptive environment essential to the dissemination of the ideas of the new science and philosophy.
Metaphysical poets - a term made by Samuel Johnson for a group of 17th century English poets. German literature of the Baroque period; New books and plays 1600. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare; England's Helicon (anthology) – including work by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others
Preface. This is a history of English literature in the seventeenth century. It covers writing in English in England and Wales. Writing in English in Scotland and Ireland, like new composition in Latin, figures only marginally, where it relates to or illuminates the principal subject.
Learn about women's contributions to English literature during the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing by women in English during the 16th and 17th centuries is more common than once thought—and women scholars today are leading efforts to rediscover these authors. (more) See all videos for this article.
Home. Bookshelves. Literature and Literacy. British Literature Through History. 4: The Early 17th Century. 4.1: The Early Seventeenth Century.
The English Renaissance, an era of cultural revival and poetic evolution starting in the late 15th century and spilling into the revolutionary years of the 17th century, stands as an early summit of poetry achievement, the era in which the modern sense of English poetry begins.
Introduction. by D.J. Kingdon. The 17th Century in English history can be marked with numerous upheavals, with even greater engagement with the wider world and with rapid changes in commerce, science, society and religion. It was a century that was easily broken into two parts: before the Civil War and the Interregnum and after those events.