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Briish Lit: Periods
Periods in British Literature
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Cavalier and the Metaphysical Poets are examples of what literary period? | Later Renaissance |
| • Aristocratic in heritage and taste • Loyal to the king • Unoriginal – modeled poetry on Sidney and Spenser, wanted to perfect techniques of lyric poetry • Carpe diem – seize the day – favorite theme • Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick | Cavalier poets |
| • Valued wit, intellect • Reacted to traditional themes and forms – wanted new ways to write poetry • Created original and complicated metaphors • John Donne, Herbert | Metaphysical poets |
| •valued restraint, rationality, and dignity •chose public rather than private themes •avoided emotion, imagination and personal feeling •popularized satire •emphasized intellectual freedom, human capability, natural rights •saw God as benevolent | Restoration |
| • Revolted against the order, traditionalism of the Age of Reason • Searched for freer artistic forms • Valued individual’s relationship to nature • Sought Beauty, truth, and wisdom • Perfected the lyric poem • Considered poetry the “spontaneous over | Romantic |
| • Relates the poet and the poem, more personal themes • Emphasizes spontaneity and impulse of feeling • See nature poetry as meditative, blending the landscape with human life and passion • Glorifies the ordinary, everyday things • Includes the supern | Wordsworth's Poetic Theory - Romantic Poetry |
| • Used visual descriptions and sound – pictorial, mellifluous, harsh • Changed tone, mood – distanced themselves from audience, bohemians • Influenced by novel – increased use of narrative in poetry (told stories) • Examined social relationships in mid | Victorian |
| • Aesthetics - art for art’s sake - “High” art • Modernist Experiment, like stream-of-consciousness, imagists • New Nations – from former imperial dominions | 20th Century |
| • Imagists - capture moments in pure, compressed images • Modernist – Ezra Pound (a Modernist and an Imagist) wrote that Modernist poets were looking for ways to “make it new” – a break from the past – experiments with language, rhythm and rhyme • Meta | 20th Century Poetry |
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