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These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. Romantic poets wrote about nature, imagination, and individuality in England. Jane Austen also wrote at this time, though she is typically not categorized with the male Romantic poets.
In America, this period is mirrored in the Transcendental Period from about Transcendentalists include Emerson and Thoreau. Gothic writings c. In America, Gothic writers include Poe and Hawthorne. In Britain, modernist writers include W. Auden , Virginia Woolf , and Wilfred Owen. The Harlem Renaissance marks the rise of black writers such as Baldwin and Ellison. Realism is the dominant fashion, but the disillusionment with the World Wars lead to new experimentation.
In central Europe, texts include early medieval grammars, encyclopedias, etc. In northern Europe, this time period marks the setting of Viking sagas. This marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon hierarchy and the emergence of the Twelfth Century Renaissance c. French chivalric romances--such as works by Chretien de Troyes --and French fables --such as the works of Marie de France and Jeun de Meun --spread in popularity.
Abelard and other humanists produced great scholastic and theological works. Late or "High" Medieval Period c. The Neoclassical Period is also called the " Enlightenment " due to the increased reverence for logic and disdain for superstition. The period is marked by the rise of Deism , intellectual backlash against earlier Puritanism, and America's revolution against England.
Restoration Period This period marks the British king's restoration to the throne after a long period of Puritan domination in England. Its symptoms include the dominance of French and Classical influences on poetry and drama. The Augustan Age Good literature is that treasure, which despite travelling the passage of time, not only remains relevant but also acquaints the reader with the past — with the way of the world as it was as well as with problems and the prevailing mood of the society.
One of the key functions of literature is to enlighten the human mind. Good literature is essential food for the development of the mind and has remained a parameter to judge the richness of a country's literary supremacy. It opens the locked doors of human conscience and feeds the inner recesses of a person's soul. Who can ever run out of classics. Every epoch has witnessed the emergence of the major writers who shaped the thinking and feeling of the society they lived in.
It is sad that today, in the times of propaganda, many a writer stays aloof from this responsibility. Rather, they become mouthpieces of political outfits they adore and try to convince their readers with their imposing ideas. Great writers of the past had one thing in common: they shared the mood of their respective societies with utmost sincerity in their works.
They took it upon themselves to highlight the flaws of the societies they lived in. They were all for truth, and truth alone. For this reason, their ideas never faded — they all wrote with a literary sensibility more inclined towards truth and were able to shape their contemporary reality.
Some of the ideas of these avant-garde writers never lost relevance because they were adopted by the later writers. We have a great example in one of the most famous theories of science: evolution of species. The possibility of evolution of species can be traced to the times of Aristotle, who had first arrived at this theory in his early writings in ancient Greece.
Though he had merely hinted at the theory, it only became popular when it was adopted by Charles Darwin. Although the ideas that Darwin postulated in On the Origin of Species were not new to the West, he is generally credited for shaping them into a definitive form.
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