... -academic literary movements of aestheticism, pre-Raphaelitism, imagism and others appeared in succession, nurturing a whole race of prose writers, poets, dramatist and philosophers. These people were to reform the literature of their time and to shape modern language, literary styles, poetic diction and verse. They also encouraged changes in social life as a result of the development of the social consciousness ... of people. An outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day literature was made by the famous American-English poet, playwright, editor and critic Thomas Stearns Eliot (18...

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... or not the reader has much room to take any individual meaning from a sonnet as they would be able to with other pieces of literature, as its strict contextual nature and rules that define its genre allow for limited variation across sonnet writing and therefore would appear to only ... reader that leads their expectations of what they are looking for when reading one. More recently than Petrarchan, Shakespearean sonnets have taken a different approach on sonnet writing that blur the intentions of the sonnet itself and make us question the idea of love as a whole, something that Fineman ...

• Word Count: 1540
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