Iam one of the OGNOU 1year english student so smoe poets incloud syllabas
and english history &grammar
The history of English poetry goes all the way back to the epic poem Beowulf and the sea ballads of the early Anglo-Saxon settlers. The poetry traces its history through Chauser (The Canterbury Tales), the romances of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and then eases into the sonnets of the time period around Shakespear. English language was first Old English (time of Beowulf poet), Middle English (Canterbury Tales) and finally Modern English (Shakespeare). Pronunciation and spelling were standardized by the invention of the printing press so that by Shakespeare's time, we have what is the earliest version of today's modern English diction. While some changes are inevitable in any language, Shakespeare and the King James Bible show us the way in which Modern English will move.
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in European culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is unavoidably ambiguous. It can mean poetry written in England, or poetry written in the English language.
The oldest poetry written in the area currently known as England was composed in Old English, a precursor to the English language that is not something a typical modern English-speaker could be expected to be able to read. In addition, there was a tradition of English poets writing also in Latin and classical Greek. Today's multicultural English society is likely to produce some interesting poetry written in a wide range of other languages, although such poetries are proving slow to emerge.
With the growth of trade and the British Empire, the English language had been widely used outside England. In the twenty-first century, only a small percentage of the world's native English speakers live in England, and there is also a vast population of non-native speakers of English who are capable of writing poetry in the language. A number of major national poetries, including the American, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian poetry have emerged and developed. Since 1922, Irish poetry has also been increasingly viewed as a separate area of study.
