short answer English America literature

1. Who was considered the real founder of American literature?

2. What is the most famous epic in old English literature?

3. Which was prevalent in English Renaissance literature, prose or drama?

4. Why do we call William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge the Lake poets?

5. What was Modernism characterized by?

6. What is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens?

7. Which one was common in the English Renaissance Period, prose or poetry?

8. Why do we say that Shakespeare’s contribution to the language is enormous?

9. What is the most important piece of prose of old English literature?

10. What are the two main kinds of plays appearing in Middle English period?