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INTRODUCTION Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic consisting of three thousand, one hundred and eighty two (3182) alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia. It is arguably the first Anglo-Saxon epic as it is the earliest surviving […] […]

INTRODUCTION The Battle of Maldon is an Anglo-Saxon war poem. Heroic battles were common in the Anglo-Saxon era because powerful kings were always seeking to expand their kingdoms, which invariably led to general instability. Military […] […]

INTRODUCTION Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English literature. This is so because it is sometimes argued that the greatest contribution that his work made to English literature was in popularizing the literary […] […]

Renaissance came immediately after the Middle Ages. Renaissance cut across the whole of Europe beginning from Italy. Till today, most poets still pattern their works after Renaissance poetry. This unit simply examines what Renaissance is […] […]

INTRODUCTION The Elizabethan period (1558 to 1603) in poetry is characterized by a number of frequently overlapping developments. The introduction and adaptation of themes, models and verse forms from other European traditions and classical literature, […] […]

Shakespearean sonnets arguably set a template for most of the sonnets written during the Renaissance in England and even after. It would be easy for any student of literature to identify William Shakespeare as one […] […]

INTRODUCTION The metaphysical poets came after the Elizabethan poets and their poetry seems to be very popular in England alone. These metaphysical poets may have been so popular in the first half of the seventeenth […] […]

During the Restoration and the eighteenth century, satire became a tool of writing poetry, drama and even prose. Satire is an artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, […] […]