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Thursday, June 4, 2026

Can Critics Assess the True Potential of Great Artists

Literary Criticism is, as Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), the Victorian poet and critic points out, a "disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate" the best that is known and thought in the world. And he strove hard to fulfill this aim in his critical writings. Attaching paramount importance to poetry... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Fragility of Human Existence - “Mutability” (by Shelley)

Shelley’s ‘Mutability’, unlike his other poems, is somber and romantically philosophical, with clear and vivid imaginative details drawing a parallel of human experiences to that of Nature’s. This poem was first published in 1816 in the collection, Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 30, 2026

Dejection: Where Feelings dry up infected by philosophy and metaphysics

The poem, ‘Dejection: An Ode ’, written in 1802, is Samuel Taylor Coleridge ’s deeply personal and autobiographical poem depicting his mental state and his declining powers of creative imagination. In this heart-rending poem, his sense perceptions are strikingly alive but his inner state is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 28, 2026

Understanding The Elegy - Country Church-Yard-(A Repeat)

T he Elegy in ancient Greece was the name given for a song of mourning. The causes of lamentation are various – war, political feuds, the manners and the morals of the time, death. The Elizabethans called a love complaint an elegy. But since then the word has come to mean a poem in which the poet... Sign in to see full entry.

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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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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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