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Sixteenth century what time from?
1558-1603
What Age was the sixteenth century likened to?
Age of prosperity in commerce, art and nationalism.
What was the sixteenth century influenced by?
Renaissance
Adjectives to describe Sixteenth century?
Enlightment
Humanistic
Liberal
What was the sixteenth century the birth of?
English Romanticism
Who wrote in the sixteenth century?
Wyatt
Shakespeare
Seventeenth century what time from?
1601-1700
What poetry was popular during the seventeenth century?
Metaphysical poetry
What did Metaphysical poetry deal with?
Abstract ideas
Logic
Philosophical ideas
What techniques were used in metaphysical poetry?
Wit
Conceits
What poets wrote in seventeenth century?
Donne
Marvel
How did Cavalier poets write?
In satire
Who is a Cavalier poet?
Lovelace
When was the eighteenth century from?
1701-1800
What happened in the eighteenth century?
The Romantic Age
Adjectives to describe the eighteenth century?
Liberalism
Love of nature
Hellenism
High imagination
What was Hellenism?
Love of Greek culture
Which poets wrote in the eighteenth century?
Burns
Blake
Keats
Byron
When was the victorian period?
1832-1901
What happened in the victorian period?
Evolution theory
Socialism
Feminism
Middle class respectability
What attitudes were there in the victorian period?
Moral earnestness
Purity
Religious
What poets wrote in the victorian period?
Dowson
Hardy
Rossetti
What relates to Hardy?
Middle class respectability
Modern poetry what dates?
1890-1950
What was questioned in modern poetry?
Christianity and traditional values
Techniques of modernism
Paradoxical
Imagery
Symbolism
modernist poets?
Yeats
