Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400)‚ known as the Father of English literature‚ is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author‚ philosopher‚ alchemist and astronomer‚ composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis‚ Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat‚ courtier
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Some critics read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita as a story of Humbert’s unrequited love for the title character; others consider it a record of the rant-ings of a mad pedophile‚ with‚ as Humbert himself admits‚ "a fancy prose style." Nabokov’s innovative construction‚ in fact‚ highlights both of these aspects as it reinforces and helps develop the novel’s main theme: the relationship between art and experience. By allowing Humbert to narrate the details of his life with Lolita‚ Nabokov illustrates the
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Breaking Free of Convention: Sir Philip Sidney In his sonnet‚ “Astrophil and Stella”‚ Sir Phillip Sidney attempts to break free of the conventional displays of love while still maintaining a conventional sonnet form to represent that love does not follow any “rules”. The poem itself is a metaphor of love‚ infused with drama and passion that ultimately ruins the relationship. However‚ to stay within the confines of a sonnet from allows love‚ an uncontrollable force‚ to be controlled. Sidney wants
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around the globe.Yet‚ besides being a playwright‚ Shakespeare has also exercised his complex literary talents in poetry‚ appreciated in this domain especially due to his sonnets. The sonnets written by Shakespeare generally follow the path opened by Petrarch in this literary genre two centuries before.These are actually poem forms consisting of 14 lines‚ each with 10 stressed and unstressed syllables known as iambic pentameter‚ with a set rhyme scheme of: a b a b c d c d e f e f g g. The rhymes may be
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The English renaissance was very delayed from the European movement in Florence during the 1400’s but there was many great works and essays when the movement finally did come about. Renaissance with the French meaning rebirth was used to describe the change in ways of the past or “rebirth”. The renaissance was greatly represented and made understandable by the works of English literature of that time. During the English renaissance there were literary works of playwrights‚ philosophers‚ and poets
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Changes in The Latin West Reading the title of this essay‚ many may ask‚ what is the Latin West? The Latin West was the Historians’ name for the Territories of Europe that believed in the Latin rite of Christianity and the use of the Latin language for intellectual exchange in 1200 through 1500. In 1454‚ a year after Ottoman Turks seized the city of Constantinople‚ Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini showed doubts as to whether anyone could convince the rulers of Christian Europe to take
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In an era of continental invasion‚ the problem of ensuring political stability within the context of European realpolitik is addressed in Machiavelli’s The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli was born on May 3‚ 1469 and grew up in Florence‚ which was a humanist city-state right in the center of the Renaissance. Machiavelli’s father‚ as a Tuscan‚ who was both an attorney and humanist‚ focused heavily on his education hired private tutors to teach Machiavelli. According to his father‚ Machiavelli‚ like other
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Sir Philip Sidney can be considered as a “Romantic Classicist” according to his An Apology for Poetry. But before analyzing this term we would have a glance of “Classicism” and “Romanticism”. Classicism refers to the appreciation and imitation of Greek and Roman literature‚ art‚ and architecture. Although the term is normally used to describe art derived from ancient influences‚ it can also mean excellence‚ high artistic quality‚ and conservatism. Classical art encompasses antiquity and later works
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The Renaissance is marked as the rebirth of ancient culture for the aristocratic class that lived in Italy‚ England‚ and France circa 1350-1650. This is an era in which the term‚ Renaissance humanism emerged. What is humanism as it relates to the Renaissance? Well‚ this form of “Humanism can be defined as a movement that encourages the study of form and content of classical learning. Renaissance humanists were obsessed with the recovery‚ study‚ interpretation‚ and transmission of the intellectual
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6. Paper and Printing Press: Europeans learned the technique printing from the Arabs. Around 1450‚ John Gutenburg invented a typing machine‚ which can be called as the forerunner of the modern press. Printing presses were used in Rome in 1466. Caxton setup a printing press in Britain in 1477. The printing press brought revolutionary changes in the growth of intellectual sphere. The invention of paper and printing device brought about revolutionary changes. The books were made available in large quantities
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