ENG202Y1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 15 pages long!)
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E(cid:374)si(cid:271)ility (cid:894)(cid:862)age of joh(cid:374)so(cid:374)(cid:863)(cid:895: 19th century (romantic era) Early history and literature of britain/europe: up to the medieval era, germanic invaders and others cause the collapse of w. roman empire, outlying imperial provinces abandoned by roman occupiers, incl. Britain: medieval period, peaceful settling or hostile takeover (?) of germanic tribes in celtic britain, monastic literary tradition in latin encounters poetic tradition of. Context for renaissance sonnets: symbol of queen elizabeth; her image evocative of the virgin mary, became a pseudo-holy relic; medieval structures of devotion now focused on the. Queen, including religious lyric poetry: petrarch; more or less the originator of the sonnet, in the petrarchan scheme, consistent iambic rhythm"s interruption signifies something. Love as submission, or revolt: they flee from me. Don"t have a baby, i"ll commemorate your beauty with a poem instead . 1: anti-petrarchan, the poem, not the beloved, is permanent and unchangin.
