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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition
An Annotated Edition by Jane Austen. Buy HERE. Along with the plays of William Shakespeare and the works of…
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Newstead Abbey: Lord Byron’s Home
Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire is best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron who was the 6th Baron Byron…
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Rudyard Kipling at the cemetery in Loos, France.
Carrie and Rudyard Kipling at the cemetery in Loos, France, after World War I. The couple’s 18-year-old son, Jack, had …
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Poetry
“Butterflies” – Rudyard Kipling
Eyes aloft, over dangerous places, The children follow the butterflies, And, in the sweat of their upturned faces, Slash with…
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The Jane Austen Quilt
Jane Austen was both fond of and good at needlework. Several pieces of her work survived and can be seen…
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Oscar Wilde Died in Paris
Oscar Wilde died in of cerebral meningitis on Saturday 1 December 1900 15.57 GMT (aged 46) at the Hôtel d’Alsace…
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Al Aaraaf
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where…
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Thomas Hardy’s Library
Thomas Hardy‘s Library – A library catalogue reveals Flaubert’s Madame Bovarv and Forster’s A Passage to India were on shelves.…
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Thomas Hardy
Tess – A Pure Woman
Tess was a simple, innocent, guideless and hypersensitive girl, trapped in a traditionally bound-society. She went to the D’Urbervilles to…
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Pride and Prejudice: Love and Marriage Theme
Though, marriage is the end of Jane Austen’s novel, yet it evolves more than the conclusion of a simple love…
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Milton’s Treatment of Woman in “Paradise Lost”
Adam and Eve are the very first human couple and the parents of the whole human race and the masterpiece…
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Browning’s Dramatic Monologue
Robert Browning aspired to be a dramatist. He wrote eight dramas and all of them failed on the stage. Browning’s…
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Frost sane realist not a pessimist
Frost is a great artist and essentially a poet but not a philosopher – he is a philosopher poet. The…
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Frost’s Treatment of Nature
Robert Frost depicts the bright and the dark aspects, the benevolent and the hostile forces of Nature in his poems…
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Yeats as a Romantic Poet
William Butler Yeats, especially in his earlier poetry, was one of the most important romantic poets, who exerted a great…
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Jane Austen’s Contribution to English Novel
An objective and impartial estimation of Jane Austen’s contribution to the development of the English novel involve comparisons which are,…
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Yeats as a Modern Poet
William Butler Yeats was one of the modern poets, who influenced his contemporaries as well as successors. By nature he…
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Francis Bacon – A Moralist
Bacon is not a true moralist. His morality is a saleable morality. He is a moralist-cum-worldly wise man. Bacon appears…
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Frost’s Theme of Isolation
One of the most striking themes of Frost is man’s isolation in the universe or man’s sense of alienation from…
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Shelley – A Revolutionary Poet
Shelley was a true-born child of the French Revolution. The spirits of that revolution found its expression in Shelley’s poetry.…
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John Donne
John Donne a Metaphysical Poet
Dryden once remarked: Donne affects metaphysics not only in his satires but in amorous verses, too, where nature only should…
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