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Hace 4 días · Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys.
Hace 1 día · English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century, are called Old English.
23 de abr. de 2024 · Geoffrey Chaucer, the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare. His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. He also contributed in the second half of the 14th century to the management of public affairs as courtier, diplomat, and civil servant.
- Geoffrey Chaucer is today one of the most highly regarded English poets, but during his lifetime his writing was largely subsidiary to his role in...
- Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the first great English poets. He is the author of such works as The Parlement of Foules, Troilus and Criseyd...
- Written at the end of his life, The Canterbury Tales is Geoffrey Chaucer’s best-known work. It is a collection of 24 stories told by a group of 30...
Hace 1 día · William Shakespeare's career straddled the change of Tudor and Stuart dynasties and encompassed English history and the emerging imperial idea of the 17th century Poetry. In the later 16th century, English poetry used elaborate language and extensive allusions to classical myths.
Hace 4 días · English literature. poetry. Thomas Warton, the Younger (born Jan. 9, 1728, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Eng.—died May 21, 1790, Oxford) was a poet laureate from 1785 and author of the first history of English poetry. He was the brother of the poet and critic Joseph Warton, and son of Thomas Warton the Elder, who was a professor of ...
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13 de may. de 2024 · Rabindranath Tagore, the revered Bengali poet and polymath, left an enduring legacy through his profound literary works and became the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature.
Hace 1 día · The earliest signs of poetry can be traced back to approximately 3000 BC in Mesopotamia, an area encompassing present-day Iraq and regions of Syria, Iran, and Turkey. Inscribed tablets of baked clay, called ‘cuneiform’, have been discovered that recorded epic stories and hymns that historians believe to be the earliest recorded works of poetry.
