History of English poetry

文学导论 英语诗歌历史思维导图，包括：Prehistory、old English、Middle Ages、ELizabethan Time、 The earlier seventeenth century。

History of English poetry

• Prehistory
  • oral tradition
• Old English
  • The Epic "Beowulf"
• Middle Ages
  • ballad
    • England
    • Scotland
• ELizabethan Time
  • sonnet
  • pastoral poem
  • song with music
    • Shakespeare's plays
• The earlier seventeenth century
  • metaphysical poems
    • Love
    • religion
    • mortality
• The late seventeenth century
  • didactic
  • modern epic
    • John Milton
• From 1790s to 1830s
  • Romantic Moment
    • freedom of individual self_expression
    • repulsive or even horrible world → inspiration and freedom
    • Poetic
      • highly furnished diction → common language
• Victorian Age
  • continue romance
    • Alfred Tennyson
      • reaffirm the romantic retrospective tradition
    • Robert Browning
      • dramatic monologue
    • American imitate English
    • Walt Whitman
      • American speech patterns and slang
    • Emily Dickinson
      • skeptical poems
• The turn of the twentieth century
  • modernist trends
  • poets
    • colloquial
    • unliterary
    • free
    • no meter
• 1910s
  • EZra Pound
    • Imaginism
      • short lyric poems
        • new clarity and exactness
      • rhyme
        • concision
        • directness
  • T.S. Eliot
    • traditional verse&modern experience
    • striking imagery&historical and mythology allusions
• The end of the Second World War
  • postmodernism
    • styles amalgam
      • image clarity
      • opacity or dreamworld progressions
      • self-exploration
      • historical recollection
      • social research
    • the rising nonwhite poets and women poets
      • conventional wisdom
        • new sources and strengths
• express a sense of urban cultural dislocation

History of English poetry

• Prehistory
  • oral tradition
• Old English
  • The Epic "Beowulf"
• Middle Ages
  • ballad
    • England
    • Scotland
• ELizabethan Time
  • sonnet
  • pastoral poem
  • song with music
    • Shakespeare's plays
• The earlier seventeenth century
  • metaphysical poems
    • Love
    • religion
    • mortality
• The late seventeenth century
  • didactic
  • modern epic
    • John Milton
• From 1790s to 1830s
  • Romantic Moment
    • freedom of individual self_expression
    • repulsive or even horrible world → inspiration and freedom
    • Poetic
      • highly furnished diction → common language
• Victorian Age
  • continue romance
    • Alfred Tennyson
      • reaffirm the romantic retrospective tradition
    • Robert Browning
      • dramatic monologue
    • American imitate English
    • Walt Whitman
      • American speech patterns and slang
    • Emily Dickinson
      • skeptical poems
• The turn of the twentieth century
  • modernist trends
  • poets
    • colloquial
    • unliterary
    • free
    • no meter
• 1910s
  • EZra Pound
    • Imaginism
      • short lyric poems
        • new clarity and exactness
      • rhyme
        • concision
        • directness
  • T.S. Eliot
    • traditional verse&modern experience
    • striking imagery&historical and mythology allusions
• The end of the Second World War
  • postmodernism
    • styles amalgam
      • image clarity
      • opacity or dreamworld progressions
      • self-exploration
      • historical recollection
      • social research
    • the rising nonwhite poets and women poets
      • conventional wisdom
        • new sources and strengths
• express a sense of urban cultural dislocation