The Background of Literature The United States, which emerged from World War II confident and economically strong, entered the Cold War...

By: Edgar Allan Poe, one of the American Literature Authors WHO IS EDGAR ALLAN POE? Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most important and...

By: Robert Frost Robert Frost’s life was marred by a series of tragedies. First, the early demise of his father, later the deaths of his...

The Colonial and Early National Period (17th century to 1830) The first European settlers of North America wrote about their experiences...

The US, which emerged from World War 2 confident and economically strong, entered the Cold War in the late 1940s. The Cold War shaped the...

The Background of Nineteenth Century Literature Wartime Literature There were revolutions across Europe in the 1790s. Fear of revolution...

Elizabethan and Jacobean period Elizabeth’s reign was marked by intrigue, war, rebellion, and personal and party strife....

Old English is the language and literature of the Anglo Saxon. Directly related to modern English (many of the our words came from Old...

The vernacular spoken and written in England from about 1100 to about 1500, the descendant of the Old English language and the ancestor...