Shakespeare’s King Lear is founded on a childish incident where an old king decides to give away his kingdom to the child who professes to love him most. And this primitive groundwork is matched by the primitiveness of its people and the world in which they live. Here is a picture of a remote and... Sign in to see full entry.
( Please excuse me for this long write but somehow I couldn’t stop myself). Absolutism is a characteristic trait in Shakespearean tragedies, and the concept has been managed with great finesse in many of the heroic portrayals of its protagonists. Shakespeare exploited the immense potential for... Sign in to see full entry.
( The inspiration of this write-up is the result of C C T’s and Sea Gypsy’s comment to my previous blog article. C C T observes, “ I suppose it depends on the poet. One declares that most work depends on one’s existence. Whilst the other believes most inspiration is achieved by formers study”) Sea... Sign in to see full entry.
Wordsworth’s deep love for the ‘ beauteous forms ’ of the natural world was established early during his childhood. He, in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, later wrote the Lyrical Ballads published in 1800, (beginning 1798 he continued to write sporadically until his death in 1850) — a... Sign in to see full entry.
Charles lamb’s prose style, as seen in his essays, is elaborate with affectation, borrowed yet absolutely individual and idiosyncratic, mannered but never mannerised. Indeed, what seems artificial in Lamb’s style is actually natural to him. Lamb belonged in spirit to the seventeenth century, and the... Sign in to see full entry.
Thyrsis, a well-known pastoral elegy, was composed by Arnold on the death of his scholar-friend Arthur Hugh Clough, his classmate and childhood friend. In this poem Arnold wonders at night alone over the familiar Oxford countryside. He has no hope for the future as he contemplates for the loss of... Sign in to see full entry.
Alfred Lord Tennyson could not be technically called a romantic poet, but his romanticism are only subtly detectable. However, highlighting these aspects of romanticism in Tennyson's work is difficult without first defining romanticism and identifying its underlying principles. The most popular poet... Sign in to see full entry.
Tennyson’s The Lotos-Eaters portrays a dreamy, languorous life where work has ceased and all incentive to work is non-existent. Once the mariners have eaten of the honey-sweet lotos they become enamoured of its half-life and turn away from all toil and obligation. They would prefer even death to... Sign in to see full entry.
The long-drawn ten years’ war in Troy has ended. The ship of Odysseus (that is, Ulysses) sets sail for homeward journey. The mariners sight land. A few of them go to explore the region. The air, languid, all quiet reigned. The streams seemed slumberous in movement. It was a land where nothing... Sign in to see full entry.
Tennyson’s Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” is a ballad based on the episode of the Arthurian legend centering on the gallant knight Sir Lancelot. The fair lady of Shalott” lives alone in her tower in a riverain (dwelling near a river) island. A curse would befall upon her if she looks out directly... Sign in to see full entry.