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Thomas Love Peacock and his famous Works
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was a satirist, essayist, and poet, the son of a London glass merchant, though brought up by his mother. He had published two volumes of verse when, in 1812, he met P B.Shelley, who became a close friend. Peacock’s prose satires, Headlong Hall (1816), Melincourt (I817), and Nightmare Abbey (1818), survey the contemporary political and cultural scene from…
August 1, 20250Comments
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What is Burlesque? Definition, and Examples
The term “burlesque” derives from the Italian burlesco, from burla, ‘ridicule’ or joke’. Burlesque is a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. In burlesque, the serious is treated lightly and the frivolous seriously; genuine emotion is sentimentalized, and trivial emotions are…
July 31, 20250Comments
Essay
Write down on The Stationers’ Register: Its Purpose, Establishment and Importance
The Stationers’ Register, also known as the Stationers’ Company Register, was a historic record maintained by the Worshipful Company of Stationers, a London guild of printers, booksellers, and publishers. The Register played a significant role in regulating and controlling printing and publishing in England for several centuries. Purpose and Establishment: The Stationers’ Register was established in…
July 20, 20250Comments
Essay Short Stories
He stood lonely in the searching sunshine; and he looked beyond the great light of a…of illusions.” Explain it from The Lagoon
In this concluding passage of his short story The Lagoon, Joseph Conrad focuses the profound tragedy in the life of his hero Arsat and reflects symbolically on the illusion of the human world. Arsat’s cherished ideal of a life of love, far from the fear of death, did not materialize. Death proved too powerful and relentless and…
July 6, 20250Comments