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popular
folk.The
Middle
strongly
reflects
principles
medieval
Christian
doctrines,
mainly
on
issue
personal
salvation
humanity
Christ
imagery
human
passion.The
lack
of
originality
partly
due
Christian
teaching.
2.2
Romance
Romance
uses
narrative
verse
or
prose
sing
knightly
adventures
other
heroic
deeds.Characterization
standardized,
while
structure
loose
episodic,
language
simple
straightforwar
D.English
romance
three
major
subjects:
“Matter
France,”the
Rome,”and
Britain”
France”meant
collection
tales
about
Chalemagne,
mighty
ruler
France
neighboring
countries
around
year
A.
D.800,
his
peers
headed
Roland,
their
wars
against
Saracens.
Rome”covered
everything
that
had
come
down
from
ancient
Romans,
Greeks
also.This
included
Roman
history
poetry,
also
Greek
mythology.
Britain”meant
legendary
Britain,
where
King
Arthur
came
in.
Excerpts
General
Prologue
Canterbury
Tales
Author:
Geoffrey
Chaucer.
Framework
Tales:
Chaucer
used
pilgrimage
as
framework
for
stories
Tales.The
work
consists
parts:
General
Prologue;
24
tales,
two
which
unfinished;
separate
prologues
each
tale.
Prologue:
composed
series
sketches
differing
widely
length
method,
blending
individual
the
typical
varying
degrees.The
Purposes,
5
“To”,
P65.The
pilgrims
are
microcosm
century
society.The
tone
whole
grateful
acceptance
life.
Tales,
employed
couplet
true
ease
charm
first
time
literature.
Renaissance
P91
regarded
result
new
emphasis
upon
newly
discovered
Poman
classics
combination
compromise
interpreted
tradition
an
ardently
admired
pagan
classical
culture,
historical
period
European
humanist
thinkers
scholars
made
attempts
get
rid
old
feudalist
ideas
Europe
introduce
expressed
interests
rising
bourgeoisie,
lift
restriction
all
areas
placed
Catholic
Church
authorities.
society,
people
individuals
were
largely
subordinated
feudalist
rule
without
any
freedom
and
independence;
theology,
people’s
relationships
world
them
reduced
problem
adapting
avoiding
circumstanced
earthly
life
effort
prepare
souls
future
next
worl
D.By
emphasizing
thee
dignity
beings
importance
present
life,
humanists
voiced
their
beliefs
man
did
not
only
have
right
enjoy
beauty
this
but
ability
perfect
himself
prepare
perform
wonders.
Sixteenth-Century
poetry
Following
main
antiquity
Ages,
poetry
was
addressed
Reason
universal
moral
guide;
it
assumption
function
teach
delighting-to
“interpret
nature”and
influence
men’s
actions.Generally,
poets
would
place
epic
at
pinnacle
genre
system,
pastoral
poems
base.
Main
categories:
pastoral
poetry;
satirical
mode,
lyric
sonnet
songs
Elizabeth’s
reign;
tragic
mode;
mythological-erotic
mode.A
most
important
lyric
16
sonnet,
its
conventions
established
Petrarch.Sonnet
has
identified
its
formal
structure,
a14-line
poem
iambic
pentameter,
principal
rhyming
patterns,
so-called
is
divided
structurally
into
quatrains
couplet.
Edmund
Spenser:
“the
poets’poet”
Recognized
contemporaries
foremost
poet
time,
Spenser
master
meter
a
profound
well.
Shepheardes
Calendar
12
eclogues,
one
moth
year.The
themes
generally
rural
nature,
love
fields.
Amoretti
88
sonnets,
describing
course
poet’s
wooing
Elizabeth
Boyle,
wife.Spenser
adopted
his
own