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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

The Significance of Faustus’s Vision of the Helen of Greece

In Greek mythology, Helen is the most beautiful woman in the entire world and the cause of the Trojan War (the Trojan prince Paris stole her from her Greek husband Menelaus. In Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus, the schoolers ask Faustus to summon Helen and Faustus later asks Mephistophilis to make... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 25, 2026

Bacon is first of the English essayists. He uses the word essay in the sense of ‘assay’, that is, to asses. Bacon emerges as versatile genius in his essays. Of the renaissance age covering the entire 15 th and 16 th century, the age was a transitional one from the Middle Ages to modernity. As a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 23, 2026

Understanding what is “The Lyric”

The term “Lyric” is often applied to all classes of poetry which is neither narrative nor dramatic. The earliest lyric required the accompaniment of the lyre, and throughout its history the lyric has retained in varying degrees the qualities of song. Certainly, many beautiful lyrics cannot be set to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 22, 2026

Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath from The Canterbury Tales

, The Wife of Bath is a sartorial - (dress-maker) by profession and has a peculiar setting of her teeth – hinting perhaps at her lustful attitude. A coarse-grained, unrefined, large-hipped woman, in her fortieth year she marries her fifth husband, a young clerk of twenty. Beginning with a lengthy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Pupils Loftily Carry their Master through a Dawning Countryside

A company of a grammarian's pupils are bearing their master's coffin for burial at the summit of a mountain. One of them tells his story and dilates on the praises of the departed scholar. They cannot fittingly bury their master on the plain with the common folk. He shall rest on a peak whose height... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 17, 2026

Character of Geraldine in Coleridge’s Christabel Part I. Is She Evil …

Coleridge’s Christabel, Part I depicts a conflict between some joined of evil, mysterious and erotic, embedded in Geraldine, and Christabel ’s goodness and religious grace. With regard to Geraldine’s appearance, the emphasis throughout is in her external beauty.From the first attention is called to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 15, 2026

King Lear is Balanced in its Mixture of Absolute Goodness and Absolute Evil

The protagonist of Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, accustomed to flattery and absolute power, is founded on a childish incident where an aging king decides to give away his kingdom to the daughter who professes to love him most. And this primitive groundwork is matched by the primitiveness of its... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 2, 2026

King Lear : In the External World of Events Virtue is Not Always Triumphant

The unhappy ending of King Lear has been condemned on the ground of poetic justice. In great tragedies as in life, there is no poetic justice. Since Lear is a man more sinned against than sinning, in 1680 Nahum Tate, a minor dramatist, gives Shakespeare a happy ending. Edgar is made from the outset... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

The Shelleyan Utopia and Gandhian ‘Sarvodaya’ (Conclusive Part)

Shelley’s utopian order is sketched pretty elaborately in Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam and most important of all, Prometheus Unbound, besides numerous references to it in his prose tracts and the prefaces and notes to his poems. In Queen Mab, Shelley’s first important exposition of the ideal... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 27, 2026

The Shelleyan Utopia and Gandhian ‘Sarvodaya’ (Part I)

Utopia, the vision of an ideal state, whether fanciful, imaginative or even logical, has allured the human mind since time immemorial. Since Plato’s The Republic, the first systematic speculation of the utopian kind, there has been a rich crop of utopian literature, tending in two directions, of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Embarking on a journey in spiritual quest is fraught with the dangers of doubt, tension and anxiety, disbeliefs, misgivings, and a whole lot of uncertainties. Still, it is that one most integral aspect of life that humankind can rarely ignore or do without. Scientific minds are at loggerheads with what constitute religious truths; likewise, there are close-minded believers that give no credence to scientific facts. What I intend and invite you to discuss here is an intelligent amalgamation of the two seemingly diabolically opposite understandings: whether there exists an interrelationship that can help man to evolve and bloom like the perennial lily?

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