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    Renaissance & Elizabethan Literature


    The Revival of Learning (1400-1550)
    Political Changes
     Rule of Henry V: national spirit, struggle on French

    soil
     Henry VI: a puppet in the hands of powerful nobles
     Joan of Arc
    Literature of the Revival
     Erasmus- Praise of Folly (1511)- Song of victory for
    the New Learning which had driven away vice,
    ignorance and superstition.
     More- Utopia (1516)- powerful and original study of

    social conditions.
     Both were written in Latin
    Tyndale
     Prose writer
     New Testament (1525)
     Leader of Protestants
     Standard English
     Wrote for both scholars and common men
     Translated from original Greek
     Straightforward and spontaneous
    Sir Thomas Wyatt
     First sonnet writer in English
     Followed Italian, Petrarch
     Satirised greedy men
    Earle of Surrey
     Real name : Henry Howard
     Comes from royal family
     Translated two books of Virgil- Certain Books of Virgil,
    Aeneis Turned into English Meter
     Blank verse
     Flexible characteristic form of English poetry
     Later Shakespeare and Milton followed his style
     Tottel’s Miscellany: 1st printed collection of miscellaneous
    English poems (contanied Wyatt & Surrey’s works)

    Sir Thomas Malory
     Morte d’Arthur- Greatest English work of this period
     A collection of Arthurian romances
     Simple & vivid prose
     Subject matter- identical to medieval age

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