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-mixture of pagan/Christian beliefs
-Heroic elements: bravery, courage, super-human strengths
-Nature's sterner moods
-harsh, cruel, violent culture, a strong sense of doom
-Themes of: loyalty to the king, warrior's desire for personal glory, revenge-kingman's obligation, wergild=manprice
-OE language (Germanic) |
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-Courtliness: chivalrous knights
-sentiment: romantic LOVE/elevation of women
-ornateness: flowery
-lighthearted and merry (HUMOR)
-religious |
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-Modern English
-Ornate, flowery language (artificial)
-Experimental informs
-variety in content and genres
-patriotism (pro-Britain) |
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-religious
-political turmoil
-"purify" church of England |
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-Imitation of classical Greek & Roman styles
-Satire, elegy, ode, epistle
-Philosophy: Rationalism
-Religion: Deism
-Common Sense
-Didacticism
-Realism
-Language: clarity, precision; polish, elegance |
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-Rejected Neoclassic rationalism & literary "rules"
-Emphasize imagination (feelings)
-Pantheism=nature
-Natural goodness of man
-The common man
-The common man's language
-Supernatural: "willing suspension of disbelief" |
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-Realism
-Reflected earnestness
-poetry
-prose: Essay, Histories, Novels |
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-Secularism
-Realism-social disillusionment (violence, anger, futility of life)
-Pessemistic
-Highly experimental in form and subject-hard to understand
-after WWI-Intellectual liberalism (advocates, freedom, individually, development of personality)
-After WWII-uncertainty, social protest, surealism, existentialism |
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