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دوشنبه 16 آبانماه سال 1384 14:31
Special thanks to miss Ebrahimi for preparing the paper مهدی آزادمهر گرگان آبان ۱۳۸۴ mahdiazadmehr@yahoo.com Next page second part from romantic Click Here A Survey to the History of English Literature (I) The Middle Ages (The 5 th – 15 th Century) Celts The very first people and the primitive residents of England are...
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دوشنبه 16 آبانماه سال 1384 14:30
The 15 th Century The first English prose writer in this period was Sir Thomas Malory (1405-1471) . He appeared five years after Chaucer 's death. Historians give at least 4 identities to him. He was a noble man but due to some unknown reasons he was in prison. (There had been another Malory who was a criminal but...
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Accession of Henry VIII (1509) The second Tudor king was well-educated, a poet and a musician and knew many languages, so he raised a lot of hope for prosperity among his people. Henry VIII was the second son of Henry VII . His elder brother, Arthur , married Catherine , the Princess of Spain, when he was just a 16...
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Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599) The greatest non dramatic poet of the English Renaissance, Edmund Spenser was born in London . All through his life he faced financial problems. He went to Cambridge as a sizar i.e. a poor student who receives meal in return for his work in a Puritan college. Finally, he received his BA...
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دوشنبه 16 آبانماه سال 1384 14:28
John Donne (1572 – 1631) He was a great poet who was recognized in the 20 th century and a founder of a school of poetry. He was born in a wealthy Catholic family; his father was a merchant and his mother a Catholic relative of Sir Thomas More . His mother's brother was imprisoned, for he held a Jesuit mission....
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John Dryden (1631 – 1700) Dryden might not be a great writer but there is something interesting about him. Through his works we can get a perfect image of his period and all aspects of social life. The son of a gentleman, he was born in a village. His family had strong Puritan tendencies. He had an acceptable...
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دوشنبه 16 آبانماه سال 1384 14:27
Joseph Addison (1672 – 1717) and Richard Steele (1672 – 1729) These two men worked together, happened to be born in the same year, went to Charterhouse School and Oxford . Addison became acquainted with Steele at school and in Oxford he proved to be a quite scholar. After he got his degree, he went on a trip in the...