early poetry
Literature's first poems
Poetry from the initial or formative period of a literary tradition, a language, or a poet's career.
The phrase is relative to context: early English poetry means medieval verse, while a poet's early poetry means their first published work.
Her early poetry shows influences she later rejected.
The anthology covers early poetry of the Americas.
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
- heroic coupletRhymed pentameter pair
- meterDevice that measures usage
- mythologyBody of traditional tales
- divine invocationRitual address to gods
sung verse · heroism · mead hall · parallelism · repetition · chant · oral storytelling · elegy · kennings · spirituality · alliteration · nature worship · ode · hymn · creation myths · ballad · morality tales · ancestral lineage
- Colonial Americanacolonial laws, almanacs, Benjamin Franklin, William Bradford, Thomas Paine
- early literatureessay, novel, pamphlet, treatise, epistle
- AkkadAkkadian, Sargon, royal inscriptions
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