Annotation: This article gives a brief overview of the development of English literature during the. Pre-Renaissance and the writers and their works that ...

Fables were short stories with animals for characters and having a moral. Fabliaux were funny metrical poems full of indecent jokes about cunning humbugs, silly ...

Both Petrarch and Boccaccio's literary endeavors provided models for later Renaissance writers. Each figure had conducted extensive studies of ancient prose and ...

Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.

Pre-Renaissance literature focused on religious themes and the collective human experience, often written in Latin and emphasizing moral instruction.

The later Middle English and early Renaissance periods · Later Middle English poetry · The revival of alliterative poetry · Courtly poetry.

Secular Poetry was one of the main works of literature at this time. It was full of satire and irony concerning everyday life. The incline of popularity of ...

Literature before the Renaissance had frequently offered ideal patterns for living which were dominated by the ethos of the church, but after the Reformation ...

English poetry and prose burst into sudden glory in the late 1570s. A decisive shift of taste toward a fluent artistry self-consciously displaying its own grace ...

The earliest Renaissance literature appeared in 14th century Italy; Dante, Petrarch, and Machiavelli are notable examples of Italian Renaissance writers.