Historical development of poetry: It’s a challenge to pinpoint the earliest work of poetry.

Poetry has
been in different forms for thousands of years. But it possible that Epic poems is the first instance of
poetry, appearing as early as the 20th century B.C. After hundreds of years, then, the sonnet form was
appeared in the 13th century.

Beginning of poetry: The Epic of Gilgamesh often is known as one of the earliest works of epic poetry
(18th century B.C.).Other examples of early epic poems might include the Mahabarata and the
Ramayana.

Most notable works of epic poetry in the Western world include the Iliad and the Odyssey, both works
of Greek mythology are attributed to the poet Homer.

Sonnet type: Traditionally, sonnets are written in iambic pentameter. Petrarca is one of the most
famous early writers of the sonnet. Following his work in the 13th century, other poets created
variations of the sonnet, best known as an English poetic form through the work of William Shakespeare

Restoration poetry and satire( 1660-1689): It follows the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and William
Shakespeare and John Milton and his ‘Paradise Lost’ marks a return to the religious concerns The great
literary person of this period includes John Dryden. Dryden made his name as a poet with his satirical
mock-heroic, or mock-epic, poems. Alexander Pope, most famous for his work The Rape of the
Lock (1712), carried on Dryden’s tradition.

The Romantics and 19th-Century Poetry( 1800-1850): Many of the best-known, best-loved, and most
widely read English poets and poems date from the Romantic period. It includes Romantic poets such as
William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. Walt Whitman
revolutionized the 19th-century American spirit with his Leaves of Grass.
The Victorians (19th and early 20th centuries) Romanticism and Symbolism blend together in the
Victorian era. Most famous poets Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning and his wife Elizabeth Barret
Browning , the first famous woman in English poetry more it includes two famous siblings Gabriel and
Christina Rossetti.
Modernism (20th century): Modernism was the child of the post world war I period, the new growth
which raised from the ashes of war. Among the early Modernists were many of the surviving War Poets,
but there were others as well, most notably T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.