art of england magazine Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/art-of-england-magazine Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:17:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 THE ARTS LITERATURE OF BRITAIN http://travelsfinders.com/the-arts-literature-of-britain.html http://travelsfinders.com/the-arts-literature-of-britain.html#respond Sat, 14 Jan 2017 07:48:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=225317 THE ARTS LITERATURE OF BRITAIN Geoffrey Chaucer tapped into the spirited side of Middle English; his Canterbury Tales (c. 1387) remain some of the funniest stories in the English canon. English literature flourished under the reign of Elizabeth I. The era’s greatest contributions were dramatic, with the appearance of the first professional playwrights. The son of a glove-maker from Stratford-upon-Avon (208), William Shakespeare looms over all of English literature. The British Puritans of the late 16th and early 17th centuries produced a huge volume of obsessive and beautiful literature, including John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost (1667). In 1719, Daniel Defoe

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