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Some of the most important authors in British poetry left their mark onliterature before 1600, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and, of course, William Shakespeare. "The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600"is an encyclopedic guide to British poetry from the beginnings to theyear 1600, featuring approximately 600 entries ranging in length from300 to 2,500 words.
Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Features over four hundred entries covering famous poetry, poets, and forms of the period.
Provides alphabetically arranged entries about major British poets, poetry, and poetic forms of the nineteenth century.
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British poetry is one of the main genre of English Literature. Major portion of English Literature prior to twentieth century existed in the form of poetry. The current book is laced with MCQ’s on British Poetry and is designed to help the learners up to greater extent in getting the basic knowledge of Poetry and in qualifying competitive examination. The book has been written with one prime objective of providing comprehensive knowledge to the students who want to qualify UGC NET/SET/SLET and join the prestigious teaching profession. The book covers a major time frame i.e. from Anglo-Saxon Age to Puritan Age and covers all the major works and authors belonging to all the ages that come under the said time frame. Major writers like Chaucer, Spenser, Herbert, Donne, Marvell, Milton and many more along with their major works and few minor works have been considered. This book also includes many minor poets like Skelton, Bradshaw, Ford, Chamberlayne, Lovelace, Herrick and so on, who were not representatives of their age but still made important contributions to the field of literature. Besides major and minor authors, this book has also incorporated many MCQ’s on all the main social, political, economic events and the literary trends of Britain for the given time period.
The current book which is the second volume in the series of British Poetry is laced with MCQ’s and is designed to help the learners up to greater extent in getting the basic knowledge of Poetry and in qualifying competitive examination. The book has been written with one prime objective of providing comprehensive knowledge to the students who want to qualify UGC NET/SET/SLET and join the prestigious teaching profession. The book covers a major time frame i.e. Neo-classical Age (1600-1798) which includes Restoration Age, Augustan Age, Age of Johnson and Pre-romantic era and covers all the major works and authors belonging to all the ages that come under the said time frame. Major writers like Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Blake and many more along with their major works and few minor works have been considered. This book also includes many minor poets like Cowper, Edward Young, Robert Burns, Robert Ferguson and so on, who were not representatives of their age but still made important contributions to the field of literature. Besides major and minor authors, this book has also incorporated many MCQ’s on all the main social, political, economic events and the literary trends of Britain for the given time period.
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