...for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help…
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey or simply Tintern Abbey is, like William Wordsworth’s The Prelude, a sort of poetical autobiography. Of course, this is no total autobiography of the poet’s life…
The stream of consciousness novel is an improved and more delicate form of the psychological novel, which Richardson, George Eliot, Mrs. Gaskell, and many others treated long before. The term…
The poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree expresses the poet’s desire to go to Innisfree, which is a small island in a lake on Lough Hill in Ireland. He wants to…
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
This is the concluding part of W.B. Yeats’s patriotic poem Easter 1916. After paying his eulogy to the great Irish…
W.B. Yeats was intimately connected with the freedom movement in Ireland, and he was, as such, in close kinship with a number of Irish political leaders. His political interest was…
Euphuism is an elegant Elizabethan literary style characterized by an excessive use of balance, antithesis, and alliteration, as well as frequent use of similes drawn from mythology and nature.
The word is also…
John Lyly was born in 1554. He was the grandson of William Lily. He was probably educated at the King’s School, Canterbury, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He served as…
During the 16th century, the religious unity of the Holy Roman Empire, which comprised a patchwork of territories in present-day Germany, Austria, and parts of neighboring countries, was shattered by…
"Lamia” is a significant poem of John Keats, one of the most prominent figures of the Romantic movement in English literature. The poem opens with a vivid introduction to the…