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Poetic Time Line 3000 BC-1700 AD
Prehomeric Era - Includes all Sumerian (3000 BC), Mesopotamian (2350 BC), and Egyptian (2400) writings.
- Includes Poem in scripted on the walls of the pyramids.
Homeric Era
- "Iliad" and "The Odyssey", Homer's Epic Poem, Written in Greek, in 1000 BC
- Loa Tzu "The Way of the Toa" written 770 BC (China)
- Hesiod writes"The Work and Days" about 700 BC (Greece)
Classical Era
- Sophocles starts writing Greek Lyrical Poetry, about 600 BC
- China's First Great poet, Ch u Yuan, writes "Li Soa" and "9 classic songs"
- "The Book of Daniel" written about 200 BC
- The Roman Empire's Luncretuis writes the lyrical master piece "On the Nature of things" and "Metamorphoses" (100 BC)
- 44 BC Julius Caesar is Murdered (Rome)
- Life of Jesus Christ (Around 3 AD, Middle East)
Dark and Golden Ages
- Li-Po, Tu Fu and Po Chu-i start the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry (618 AD)
- Beowulf is written about 670 AD
Middle Ages
- French literature's corner stone is written, The song of Roland (1000 AD)
- El Poema del Cid written in 1140 and was the first major work in Spanish.
- Magna Carta Signed
- Dante Allighieri the writer of The Divine Comedy life time. (1265-1321)
Renaissance
- 1564 William Shakespeare was Born.
- 1580-1640 a group of the greatest writers that ever lived including
- John Webster (1580-1625)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
- Sir Phillip Sidney (1554-1586)
- William Shakespeare(1564-1614)
- John Donne (1573-1631)
- Hamlet is preformed for the first time. (1601)
- 1614 Shakespeare Dies
- John Milton writes Paradise lost (1667)
3 Poets of the Time
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri, was born in Florence 1265. In 1285 Dante married Gemma di Manetto Donati. They had 3 children. Dante tried his luck as a politician but did not fair very well. Not because of his lack of leadership skills but the trying times he was put into. Civil war, and religious uprising against Pope Bonifacio VIII's foreign policy, made the job of priore, or Mayor, Governor, very hard. Dante wrote many works, include the "Divina Commedia", The masterpiece were Dante is lead though 2 places by Virgel. There are 3 parts of "Divina Commedia", Inforno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Virgil represents human reason.
Quotes By Dante
Through me you enter into the city of woes
Through me you enter into eternal pain,
Through me you enter the population of loss.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
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Sophocles
Sophocles lived from 496-406 B.C. Sophocles was born in a small town out side of Athens. Sophocles father, Sophillus, sent his son to Athens for education. Sophocles held public office in 443, he held the position "hellanotamis" or treasurer of the Greeks, and he was one of nine other in charge of this part of Greek government. Sophocles was also a priest of Halon. Sophocles wrote 7 tragedy, in his life time, and were a mile stone in the modern Drama and tragedy. Sophocles Quotes
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564. He was educated at Cambridge University. He was an actor for the Lord Admiral's Company. He wrote many plays including Tamburlaine the Great, Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta , and Edward II . Marlowe's plays are usually filled with violence and passion. They all have a Hero, who normally is destroyed by his own flaws. Marlowe is said to be the greatest dramatist before Shakespeare, and is sometimes is lost behind the huge shadow of Shakespeare. Marlowe also wrote the beautiful ballad, A Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
Christopher Marlowe Quote
Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
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