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    mission was a turning point in Geoffrey Chaucer’s career. It strengthened his favor with the king and provided a driven motive for all of poetry. After his trip to Italy Geoffrey Chaucer now began writing short tales that were similar to that of Petrarch and Boccaccio. Geoffrey Chaucer’s work received much wide attention by the mid-1370s (Bloom 1). In 1374 Geoffrey Chaucer found himself reading his poetry at court and at the festival at the order of Garter. As a controller of customs‚ Geoffrey Chaucer

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    Renaissance Content The Renaissance was knows as the “rebirth”‚ the revival of the culture of classical Greece and Rome. People started taking interest in learning classical Greece and Roman texts‚ therefore there was a rebirth of learning (also because the Medieval times lacked education). It transformed economics and trade‚ knowledge and learning‚ and the arts. It begins in Italy in the 1350s after the Crusades and later spread to Northern Europe. Italy became the birthplace because

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    Two major elements in European culture a. Greco-Roman element b. Judeo-Christian element Division One Greek Culture and Roman Culture Ⅰ. Greek Culture Why should we study the Ancient Greeks? The Greek culture is an origin of western culture Greek culture has made to western society in the areas of art‚ literature‚ philosophy‚ drama‚ architecture and politics‚ astronomy It shape today’s western culture with notions of democracy and personal freedom The most important reason to study

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    Milton's Grand Style

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    What is Milton’s grand style in paradise lost? Introduction "The name of Milton"‚ says Raleigh‚ "is become the mark‚ not of a biography nor of a theme‚ but of a style - the most distinguished in our poetry." In all that he has written he has impressed his indomitable personality and irrepressible originality. John Milton is not only in every line of Paradise Lost but in every line of poetry that he has written. As Macaulay has said: "There is not a square inch of his poetry from first to last

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    The Uncanny Power of the Metaphysical Conceit . / / ABSTRACT The conceit originally means a concept or an image. It is in general a figure of speech that presents striking parallel between two different things or situations. The history of English poetry witnessed the adaptation of two types of conceit: the petrarchan conceit and the metaphysical conceit. This paper sheds lights on the second type of conceit which was mainly employed by John Donne (1572-1631) and the other metaphysical

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    Chapter 19 From Gothic to Renaissance: 14th Century Italian Art The essentially religious view of the world that dominated medieval Europe began to change dramatically in what is called the European Renaissance. Although religion continued to occupy a primary position in the lives of Europeans‚ a growing concern with the natural world‚ the individual‚ and humanity’s worldly existence characterized the Renaissance period. The Renaissance‚ which means “rebirth‚” extends roughly from the 14th through

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    WK - The Italian Renaissance was a time of rebirth in the arts. An abundance of new styles were explored‚ building on classical traditions but also breaking away from them. This cultural explosion was made possible by the liberal distribution of florins that characterized the artistic support of leading banking and commerce families. These influential families were patrons sometimes as a Machiavellian exercise of their power‚ often to atone for religious sins‚ and sometimes because they loved

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    period was very important in providing treatment to the mentally ill so many mental hospitals were built during this period (Hergehahn‚ 2009). During this time there were several philosophers who predominantly express the indication of humanism. Petrarch Francesco was one of them and he is considered the father of Renaissance and he believed that people religious associations should not get studied but the fact that they are human beings. His view on human potential made a path for many artistic

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    Medieval Poetry

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    Medieval literature is a very diverse subject. The term covers the literature of Europe during the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginnings of the Renaissance in the 15th century‚ spanning a period of roughly 1‚000 years. As a result‚ it is difficult to make generalizations about medieval literature. It is‚ nonetheless‚ possible to identify a few general trends. Allegory and symbolism are common in medieval literature‚ perhaps more so than in modern writing. Religious and philosophical

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    Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)‚ The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) Qui inter hæc nutriuntur non magis sapere possunt‚ quam bene olere qui in culinâ habitant. PETRONIUS. OETRY‚ like the world‚ may be said to have four ages‚ but in a different order: the first age of poetry being the age of iron; the second‚ of gold; the third‚ of silver; and the fourth‚ of brass. ¶2 §2 The first‚ or iron age of poetry‚ is that in which rude bards celebrate in rough numbers the exploits of ruder chiefs‚ in days when

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