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1 Although
Geoffrey Chaucer
was essentially a medieval writer, he bore
marks of humanism and anticipated a new era of literature to come.
2
Romance,
which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of
Knightly
adventures
or
other
heroic
deeds,
is
a
popular
literary
form
in
the
medieval period.
The Renaissance Period
Edmund Spencer / Christopher Marlowe / William Shakespeare
Francis Bacon / John Donne / John Milton
1. Renaissance: between 14th and mid-17th century.
2.
Renaissance
means
rebirth
or
revival
is
actually
a
movement
stimulated by a series of historical events, such as:
The rediscovery of
ancient Roman
and
Greek culture,
The new discoveries in
geography
and
astrology,
The
religious reformation
and the
economic expansion.
3. The Renaissance, therefore in essence is a historical period in which
the European humanist thinkers and Scholars made attempt to
get rid of
those old feudalist ideas
in Medieval Europe, to
introduce new ideas
that
expressed the purity of the rising bourgeoisie,
and to
recover the purity of
the early church
from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.
The
religious
reformation
in
the
early
16th-century
England
was
a
reflection of the class struggles
waged by the
rising bourgeoisie against
the feudal class and its ideology
4
. Humanism
is the essence of the Renaissance
The essence of humanism is to
emphasize human qualities
(1) Capable of individual development in the direction of perfection.
(2) They inhabited was theirs not to despise by to
question, explore and
enjoy.
(3) Tomas More, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are the
best representative of the English humanist.
5
Metaphysical
poetry:
Metaphysical
is
characterized
by
passionate
thought succession of concentrated image, exercise of elaborate ingenuity
and
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John
Donne
was
the
famous
of
the
Metaphysical
poet.
The
Metaphysical Poets were
men of learning and to show their learning was
their endeavor.
Edmund Spenser
Masterpiece: The Faerie Queene (allegory)
Christopher Marlowe
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1 Important plays: Tambulaine, Dr.Faustus, The Jew of Malta
2 Marlowe voiced the supreme desire of the man of the Renaissance of
infinite powers and authority
(1) Perfected the blank verse.