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___ are poems about love

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sonnets

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“rebirth” - flourishing of arts and culture

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Renaissance

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late 19th century

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Victorian

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a flourishing period of literature - particularly drama

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Elizabethan Period (Renaissance)

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printing press invented during this movement

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Elizabethan Period (Renaissance)

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18th century

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Enlightenment

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science and logic, intellectual discourse, breaking things down, questioning if this makes sense

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Enlightenment

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1558-1603

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Elizabethan Period (Renaissance)

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an intellectual movement in France that emphasized the importance of reason, progress, and Liberty

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Enlightenment

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authors challenge society and government

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Enlightenment

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early 19th century

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Romanticism / Transcendentalism

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similar in feel and style to romantics

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Transcendentalism

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1798-1832

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Romanticism / Transcendentalism

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celebrated wealth and vitality

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victorian

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celebrated nature, spontaneity, imagination, and subjectivity

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Romanticism / Transcendentalism

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the ode comes back into favor as well as women writers Jane Austen & Mary Shelley

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Romanticism / Transcendentalism

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drive for social advancement

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The Age of Reason brings in popularity of non-fiction and essays, as well as philosophy

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Enlightenment

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an American philosophical movement that focuses on a communion with nature

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Transcendentalism

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desire to marry above one’s station

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20th century

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the sonnet form of poetry was the rage

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Elizabethan Period (Renaissance)

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1660-1790

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Enlightenment

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1890-1965

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reaction against reason and the enlightenment period
Romanticism / Transcendentalism
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a literary and artistic movement that radically breaks with traditional modes of western art, thought, and mortality
modernism
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major themes include isolation, alienation, subjectivity, and self-referentiability
modernism
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steady growth in power of state
Victorian
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illuminates the connection between reader and literature or viewer and art
modernism
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lost of stream of consciousness
modernism
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Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats
Romanticism / Transcendentalism
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age of the novel
Victorian
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late 20th century - present
postmodernism
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no format
postmodernism
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lack of reality
postmodernism
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1835-1860
Transcendentalism
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1837-1901
Victorian
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difficult to understand
postmodernism
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existential themes (questioning life/why am I here)
postmodernism
40
examining one's belief
postmodernism
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16th & 17th centures
Elizabethan Period (Renaissance)

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