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- Literature Periods Movements. Literary History
Literature History Henry Augustin Beers was a literature historian and professor at Yale who lived at the turn of the 19th century He wrote intensely detailed histories of American and English literature, covering the periods up until what were his modern times We have collected those works below
- Literary Periods Timeline - online literature
Literary Periods History Timeline Here you will find our graphical timeline representing literary periods movements, as well as major events or authors from literature history To learn more about specific eras you can browse back to our Literary Periods page You may purchase this timeline in poster form here
- Modernism - Literature Periods Movements
Modernism The Modernist Period in English Literature occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965 In broad terms, the period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world Experimentation and individualism became virtues, where in the past they were often heartily discouraged
- Romancticism - Literature Periods Movements
Romancticism No other period in English literature displays more variety in style, theme, and content than the Romantic Movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Furthermore, no period has been the topic of so much disagreement and confusion over its defining principles and aesthetics Romanticism, then, can best be described as a large network of sometimes competing philosophies
- The Literature Network: Online classic literature, poems, and quotes . . .
Author List Below you will find a list of the authors featured on this site Each author page includes a biography and a searchable collection of works, many author pages also include other content such as user comments or quizzes Please choose the author you wish to explore from the list below
- The Beat Generation - Literature Periods Movements
The publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl in 1956 marks a turning point in the history of Beat literature, not to mention American literature in general The long-form poem is intended to be read aloud, almost chanted, a sort of return to an oral tradition that had been neglected in literature for a long time The content of the poem raised eyebrows, and sparked an obscenity trial which
- Bartletts Familiar Quotations - online literature
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations A Collection of over 8000 Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
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