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| one poet who wrote during the Medieval period. |
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| five poets who wrote during the Renaissance. |
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| Wyatt, Surrey, Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe. |
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| four poets who wrote during the seventeenth century. |
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| Donne, Milton, Behn, Rochester. |
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| Which year is considered to be the beginning of the Elizabethan period? |
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| What marked the beginning of the Elizabethan period? |
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| the death of Elizabeth I, James I's ascension to the throne. |
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| When is Charles I executed? When is Purtian rule put into place? |
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| When does the Elizabethan period end? What marks the end? |
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| 1660. Ascension of Charles II, Period of Restoration. |
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| In which year does Queen Anne? What does this signify? |
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| 1714. End of the Stuart line, ascension of George I of Hanover, Germany. |
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| In which year did the French Revolution begin? What was so significant about the French Revolution? |
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| 1789. It was important because it helped restore ideas of liberté, egalité, and fraternité and contributed to the ethics of Romanticism. |
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| three poets who wrote during the eighteenth century. |
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| When was the First Reform Bill passed? What did it entail? |
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| 1832. For the first time, it allowed for members of the middle-class to vote; redistributed representation in Parliament in order to include new industrial cities and to eliminate rotten boroughs. |
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| five poets who wrote during the Romantic period. |
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| Barbauld, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats. |
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| What did Romanticism entail? |
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| Intellectual and literary flourishing, political repression, Industrial Revolution (shift to urban areas, poetic distaste of the city), division between classes. |
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| three poets who wrote during the Victorian era. |
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| Tennyson, Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Hardy. |
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| When did the Victorian era begin and what marked the beginning of this era? |
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| 1832. The First Reform Bill. |
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| When did the Victorian era end, and what marked this end of this phase? |
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| 1901. The death of Queen Victoria. |
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| What did the Victorian era entail? |
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| Scientific breakthroughs, social repression and subsequent partaking of vices. |
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| four poets who wrote during the Modernist period. |
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| Hardy, Mew, Yeats, Eliot. |
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| What marked the end of the Modernist and in which year does this take place? |
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| The death of Queen Victoria in 1901. |
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| What marked the end of the Modernist period and in which year does this take place? |
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| The beginning of World War II in 1939. |
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| What did Modernism entail? |
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| The valuing of the artist over the common man, mass education of the English public (making literacy commonplace), pessimism, crumbling of the British Empire, creation of independent Irish State. |
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| Sassoon, Brooke, Rosenburg, Owen. |
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