Short History of English Literature

A CML Guide to Literatuere, 2020

Observing human behavioral tendencies across a development of time is ever enigmatic, despite being a quotidian phenomenon. The enigma comes in through the wand of possibilities and the erratic realities that course through humanity. Things and time happen to creations across the world and the obsolete happenings never get obsolete along the narratives that make the world a bulb of connected currents – the things that warrant life, existence, quest for power, death, lust and love, and the consistent search for God at the center of life at large. Here, religion, rituals, spirituality – all towards the comb of human exploration become a spectacle to observe with open minds; since your limit becomes the start for another in this world of plausibilities – Literature; a Review of Literature From the Beginning to Renaissance. Keywords: Human Behavioral Tendencies, Quotidian, Enigma, Narratives, Plausibilities

I show how the English authors of the 16th and 17th centuries consistently adapted and transformed Classical conceptions of the nature and purpose of poetry and literature. A collection of the most important source texts follows the presentation body.

2020

The early modern era has brought about various changes in the fields of Literature and Culture of England. This period coincides with the Renaissance and the Elizabethan period. This essay aims at examining the impact of innovation in the field of English Literature during the 16 th century. This century includes the Renaissance and a major chunk of the Elizabethan age.

2009

Literature constantly evolves as new movements emerge to speak to the concerns of different groups of people and historical periods. This document gives a brief and general idea about those periods.

2002

This series aims to be comprehensive and succinct, and to recognize that to write literary history involves more than placing texts in chronological sequence. Thus the emphasis within each volume falls both on plotting the significant literary developments of a given period and on the wider cultural contexts within which they occurred. "Cultural history" is construed in broad terms and authors address such issues as politics, society, the arts, ideologies, varieties of literary production and consumption, and dominant genres and modes. Each volume evaluates the lasting effects of the literary period under discussion, incorporating such topics as critical reception and modern reputations. The effect of each volume is to give the reader a sense of possessing a crucial sector of literary terrain, of understanding the forces that give a period its distinctive cast, and of seeing how writing of a given period impacts on, and is shaped by, its cultural circumstances. Each volume recommends itself as providing an authoritative and up-to-date entrée to texts and issues, and their historical implications, and will therefore interest students, teachers and the general reader alike. The series as a whole will be attractive to libraries as a work that renews and redefines a familiar form.