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Poems and Literature

Baroque Period

• The term Baroque
• refers to an artistic and literary period of the seventeenth century, which
• contrasts in many ways with the Renaissance of the previous century.
• It begins in the
• early seventeenth century or the late XVI which It is a time of instability,
• anxiety, pessimism and, above all, heartbreak.
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Characteristics:

• · There
• is a rejection of the expressions of modern ideology that occur in other
• European countries; hence the country is closed to all cultural contact with
• the rest of the continent.
• · Overuse
• of hyperbaton and ellipsis: disorder in the logical organization of the sentence
• and paragraph.
• · Use
• of neologisms and archaisms.
• 

Neoclassicism

• 
• Neoclassical dramatists and critics, especially in 17th-century France, derived from Aristotle what they called the unities of time, action, and place. This meant that the action of a play should not.
• Neoclassicism, especially in its 18th-century developments, confused—for ordinary minds. The leading theorists of that revolt, the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in the “Preface” (1800) to Lyrical Ballads urged the observance of a few simple rules basic to all great poetry and demanded a return to the integrity of expressive form.

Romanticism

• The Romantic
• period was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated
• in Germany toward the end of the 18th century.
• Its characterized
• by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all
• the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical. It was
• partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution.
• EXAMPLES OF AUTHOR: Edgar Allan Poe
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