Question

write a short note on Elizabeth poetry

Answer 1

• The age of Shakespeare or the Elizabethan Age witnessed of the redhest periods in the history of England. The Age witnessed the rise and growth of the feelings of patriotism and nationalism among the English people and brought about an unprecedented progress in almost all the branches of its varigated life. The age is considered as “The Golden Age” in the history of English literature.
• It was the age of Queen Elizabethan 1st  (1558-1603) comprising  the half of 16th century. It was an age in which the mind of the people was set free from the trammels of Medievalism from free of religious persecuation from fear of poverty and starvation and from the fear of foreign invasion. It was an age/era of social, political and religious peace.
• Men were now free to devote themselves to art and literatures. It was also an era of great adventures, travel and discovery which fired the imagination of the people and impelled them to creative activity. It is therefore called a “Golden Age of English Literature.”