Understanding Romanticism in British Poetry Romanticism was a powerful artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that emerged in the late 18th century and reached its height in the early 19th century. It marked a departure from the rigid forms and rationalism of the Neoclassical era, emphasizing instead emotion, nature, individualism, and imagination. British Romantic poetry is […]
Contextual Explanation of the Excerpt Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike Source of the Excerpt This famous excerpt is taken from “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” by Alexander Pope, a major figure in 18th-century English poetry. The poem
Contextual Explanation of the Excerpt I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then? Source of the Excerpt This excerpt comes from the poem “The Good-Morrow” by John Donne, one of the leading metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century. The poem is a love lyric,
Contextual Explanation of the Excerpt My loue is now awake out of her dreams, and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were With darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beams More bright then Hesperus his head doth rere. Source of the Excerpt This excerpt is taken from Edmund Spenser’s famous poem Amoretti, a sonnet
Contextual Explanation of the Excerpt “Now, sire”, quod she, “When we flee fro the bemes For Goddess love, as taak som laxative. Up peril of my soule and o lif, I counseille yow the beeste, I wol nat lye,” Source of the Excerpt This excerpt is taken from Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”, specifically from
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