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English Literature Periods & Movements English Medium

Handwritten notes on the major ages of English literature — Renaissance, Jacobean, Metaphysical, Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian and Modern — and the movements: Romanticism, Gothic, Pre-Raphaelite, Realism and Existentialism.

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Chapter 1 Pass English Medium English Literature Periods & Movements Renaissance to Metaphysical English literature handwritten notes on the age of the Renaissance — its four causes and the spirit of humanism, the Elizabethan golden age with the University Wits, Marlowe and Spenser, the darker Jacobean age with Shakespeare’s tragedies and Jonson’s comedy of humours, the Metaphysical poets with Donne’s conceits and Dr. Johnson’s famous verdict, and the Caroline and Puritan age of the Cavaliers and Milton, with flashcards and previous-year practice questions. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium English Literature Periods & Movements Neoclassical to Modern English literature handwritten notes on the four ages from 1660 to 1945 — the Neoclassical age of reason with its Restoration, Augustan and Johnson periods, Dryden, Pope and Swift; the Romantic age of imagination with the Lake Poets and the younger generation of Byron, Shelley and Keats; the Victorian age of doubt and duty with Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and the great novelists; and the Modern age of experiment with Yeats, Eliot, Joyce and Woolf, plus the Postmodern age that followed, with flashcards and previous-year practice questions. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium English Literature Periods & Movements Major Literary Movements English literature handwritten notes on the major literary movements — Romanticism and the ideas behind it, the Gothic novel of terror from Walpole and Radcliffe to Mary Shelley, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of 1848, Realism and the harder naturalism of Zola, and Existentialism from Kierkegaard to Sartre and Camus, together with Symbolism, Aestheticism, Imagism and the Theatre of the Absurd, with flashcards and previous-year practice questions. Open map