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☆☆☆☆☆The imperial period of Roman literature (the Age of Augustus) is known as the "golden age" due to the patronage of the arts by the emperor. This period included works by the poets Vergil, Horace, and Ovid.
Troubadours composed lyrics about the fights and deeds of a particular ruling family.
Odysseus
The Iliad chronicles the exploits of the Greek warrior hero Achilles during the siege of Troy, and his conflicts with King Agamemnon of Greece.
knights
Italy
high German
in taly
Plautus and terence
emotional expression and heightened imagination
GREECE
The group of people which were the original settlers of Rome were Latin. However, the Etruscans came and took over the built cities in Rome.
Encyclopedie
The authors of the romantic period turned their interest to remote and faraway places such as the medieval period folklore and legends.
The simple answer is that the medieval period is also called the Middle Ages.
There is some complexity, however. The period from the 5th through 10th centuries was called the Dark Ages, but the term Early Middle Ages is more common now. What used to be called the Middle Ages, a time from the 11th to 15th centuries, is now often counted as the High Middle Ages (1000 to 1300) and Late Middle Ages (1300 to some time in the 15th century).
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
harp
consisted of seven poets who devised a new form of french poetry
a variety of literary works
The Raomantic Poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote poems describing nature and country life. Such poetry was known as Romantic Poetry. the movement was widespread in the 19th century and was also known as Romanticism or Romantic Literature.
