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Part I (I) Introduction A Short History of British and American Poetry What Is Poetry How to Read and Evaluate Poetry Poetic Literary Terms The Arrangement of the Class I. A short history of British and American poetry i. British poetry: 1. The earliest stage: -- the Anglo-Saxon period -- a verse literature in oral form -- pagan poetry: Beowulf: 2. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, under the influence from France: the romance: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 3. The 14th c.: the first harvest in English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer – the Father of English poetry 4. The 15th c.: ballads, Robin Hood Ballads 5. The 16th c.: the Tudor dynasty, the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the period of Renaissance: -- Wyatt introducing the Italian sonnet to England -- Henry Howard creating the English form of the sonnet -- Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queen, the Spenserian stanza -- Christopher Marlowe: making blank verse the principal instrument of English drama -- William Shakespeare: 154, the Shakespearean sonnet 6. The 17th c.: the Stuarts, different political and religious beliefs -- the Cavaliers: Robert Herrick, royalistic against the British Revolution -- metaphysical poets: John Donne… -- Puritan poets: John Milton: Paradise Lost -- Restoration poet: John Dryden 7. The 18th c.: the Age of Enlightenment (Reason) -- Pope, Addison, Steele, Johnson…: a revival of classical standards of order, balance and harmony in literature -- the middle of the century: sentimentalism, grief and mild protest, Thomas Grey: Elegy written in a Country Churchyard -- later years of the century: the forerunner of Romanticism, Burns and Blake 8. Early 19th c.: the Romantic Age -- Passive Romanticists: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey -- Active Romanticists: Byron, shelley and Keats 9. The rest of the 19th c.: the Victorian Age -- experimental -- Tennyson -- the Brownings: dr