John Dryden (9 Aug 1631 – 30 April 1700), nicknamed Town-Bayes, an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England.
Born in the village rectory of Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The eldest of 14 children of Eramus Dryden and Mary Pickering – an Parliamentary supporting family with Puritan learnings.
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1.Biography-Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope는 신고전주의 시대에 유일하게 문필로만 생계유지를 할 수 있었던 작가의 표본이었다. 그는 로마 카톨릭 신자로 대학입학도, 투표도, 공직 생활도 할 수 없었지만 Iliad와 Odyssey 작
- The “new world” that Columbus boasted of to the Spanish monarchs in 1500 was neither an expanse of empty space nor a replica of European culture, tools, textiles, and religion, but a combination of Native, European, and African people living in complex relation to one another.
- The Native cultures Columbus found in the New World displayed a huge variety of languages, social customs, and cr
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen - (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)
Romantic fiction
Landed gentry
Realism – biting irony & social commentary
Constant support from family
Epistolary novel
18th century ~ 19th century
Dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing & economic security
Austen’s works - Sense and Sensibility
1. Sense and Sensib
William Langland is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman.
주요작품 : The Vision of Piers Plowman
Geoffrey Chaucer known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant