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greetings! I am trying to compile a list of 100 things about Brit Lit for my English 4 class, and am seeking resources and ideas.
If anyone has any good ideas or perhaps resources to reccomend, it would be greatly appreciated. Keep in mind that this is brit lit from 1600 to present.
thanks for your time,
scd
Alexander Pope.
Of most of the things that I've read, from the Renaissance period generally, it always reverberated around a social issue, or a subject general enough that most everyone could identify with. And a lot of it is centered around tales found in greek mythology
Chaucer. He proved English was a viable language for prose. First guy to write anything decent in English. Plus, you can look at him as the first to look critically at humans. The Wife of Bath also appears to be the first feminist character in English literature.
Hmm, other important things. Well, my favourite writer is John Milton. Paradise Lost and Regained. Absolutely brilliant, and he did those without sight.
Then you get the romantics, like Wordsworth. Oh, Dover Beach, by Matthew Arnold. Great stuff.
Most of the British poetry is written in Iambic Pentameter if I remember correctly.