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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

Truth sometimes means reality, while reality is usually not beautiful at all. Reality can be disappointing or cruel or ugly.…

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Arthur Miller is a great modern American dramatist who keenly observes the ambitions and ideals of an individual as well…

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The essay ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ was originally a review in the London Times Literary Supplement (October 20, 1921) of the book…

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The fact that Hardy resented being called a pessimist is no reason why he should not be thus described. Hardy…

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Critics and poets, in all ages and countries tried to explain their own theory and practice of poetry. Wordsworth,…

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Chance and coincidence play a vital role in all the novels of Hardy. While character is certainly responsible to a…

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It cannot be denied that “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” is a social document showing the final tragic stage of the…

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John Donne was the first English poet to challenge and break the supremacy of Petrarchan tradition. Though at times he…

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“Gulliver’s Travels” is a great work of social satire. Jonathan Swift’s age was an age of smug complacency. Corruption was…

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“Oedipus Rex” is a tragedy of fate. The crucial events in the play have been predetermined by fate or the…