Mir Afzal Men like Drayton, Hooker, Jonson, already wear their learning with a certain accustomed and substantial grace characteristic of the new time. But the most conspicuous example in literature of this expanding learning is Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans.
The heroine Iphigenia is the daughter of King Agamemnon , the general of the Greek troops in the Trojan War . Homer’s epic Iliad in particular reports on the Trojan War , but also numerous other writings from ancient Greece. So now the entire Greek fleet gathers at Aulis to sail together to Troy to go to war, when suddenly there is a calm. The sailing ships of the Greeks cannot sail without wind.
Author Feature: Sir Philip Sidney The finest incarnation of humanistic virtues in his times was Sir Philip Sidney. He was born in 1554. On both sides he was an aristocrat. His mother came of the exalted house of Lisle and Dudley. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was her brother. Philip’s father, Sir Henry Sidney, was … Read more
Kamala Das – Her Literary Life and Her Works Her Life Born on March 31, 1934, in Malabar, Kerala, Kamala Das’ love of poetry was ignited by watching her great uncle Nalapat Narayana Menon, a prominent writer of his time. She would watch him work all day and felt that his life was one of … Read more
“Ode to Evening,†is one among the most enduring Odes of William Collins. It is a beautiful poem of fifty two lines, addressed to a goddess figure representing evening. The poem appeared in Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects in 1747.
Ode to Simplicity celebrates the virtue of simplicity in poetry. It is perhaps the most regularly constructed Ode. It contains nine stanzas of six lines each. In address, it is somewhat formal. The poet characterizes Simplicity as a ‘generous maid taught by Nature, who breathes her genuine thoughts in numbers warmly pure and sweetly profound’.
Quiz on Dr Faustus Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by which of the devil’s angels? A. Mephastophilis B. Beelzebub C. Aamon D. none of the above At the end of the play, Faustus is dragged down to hell, begging to repent. A. True B. False 3. What is the meaning of “Renaissance”: A. … Read more
MCQs on Christopher Marlowe The title page which play of Christopher Marlow attributes the play to Marlowe and Thomas Nashe? A. Doctor Faustus B. Dido, Queen of Carthage C. Edward the Second D. Tamburlaine the Great From which institution did Christopher Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584? A. Oxford University B. Trinity College … Read more
This is a simple poem of four stanzas, about trees written by Harry Behn. The poem conveys the importance of trees to the world with the use of very simple images and the poem has a regular rhyme scheme. A regular rhyme means that you can see a pattern in the last words of each line. In this poem you will notice that the poem is in couplets with the last two words of each couplet having similar sounding words (example: know/grow, cows/boughs)
Candida by George Bernard Shaw ABOUT THE PLAY Bernard Shaw had two categories for his plays, those that were “pleasant†and those that were “unpleasantâ€. CANDIDA he put among the pleasant ones, and it is easy to see why. A box office hit in its time (1904), this British classic continues to be one of … Read more
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) was born on 26th July 1856 in Dublin. He was one of the most popular and provocative playwrights and a man of great intellectual ability of the twentieth century. George Bernard Shaw was the only son and the third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw.
SUMMARY OF RESTORATION PERIOD The Restoration period covers the reign of Charles II (1660–1685) and the brief reign of his younger brother James II (1685–1688). The term ‘Restoration’ is not only used to describe the event by which the monarchy was restored to England but also the period from 1660 to 1700 that witnessed an … Read more