Confessional poetry or “Confessionalism” is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It is mirrored on the poet’s own self i.e. it is deeply personal in content; and deals with transgressional subject focusing on extreme moments of individual experience, theContinue Reading
Although the twentieth-century drama is the product of the individual writer’s ideas and experience, we often find some general features in common. Firstly, there was drama of social and political criticism. Secondly, there was an experiment with the language of drama, particularly when it is used for a witty orContinue Reading
The “angry young men” were a group of mostly working and middle class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s. The group’s leading members included John Osborne and Kingsley Amis. The phrase was originally coined by the Royal Court Theatre’s press officer to promote John Osborne’s 1956Continue Reading
The First World War was the first military conflict in history that evoked the widest possible spectrum of literary responses, ranging from enthusiastic patriotic affirmation to disillusionment. Broadly two phases may be distinguished. The first was one of patriotic fervour, almost of rejoicing in the opportunity of self-sacrifice in theContinue Reading
The Victorian era is known for the galaxy of female novelists. CHARLOTTE BRONTE, EMILY BRONTE, Mrs. Gaskell and GEORGE ELIOT are in prime focus. They also include Mrs. Trollope, Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Maroh, Mrs. Bray, Mrs. Henry, charlotte younger, Miss Oliphant, and still more. However, the four most important womenContinue Reading
Charles Dickens was the representative novelist of the Victorian age. He is the greatest novelist that England has yet produced. He is the writer of some great novels such as Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, and Bleak House in which his comic view of life, social criticism,Continue Reading
Victorian literature is characterized by its abundance in the field of non-fictional prose, the range of variety of which is baffling. Non-fictional prose writers of this period explore a fine art of living while simultaneously carrying the message of immediate public concern. They focused on society while also encompassing withinContinue Reading
Victorian poetry carried forward the previous Romantic tradition and also reacted against it. These two periods have a lot in common: skepticism, interest in everything mysterious, distrust of organized religion. On the other hand, Victorian poets reacted against what they felt was the soppy, flighty, and saccharine sweet poetry ofContinue Reading
The Romantic Movement in English poetry is generally described as a “Return to Nature.” But Nature for the Romantics were completely different from the notion held by Augustan or neo-classical authors. When Alexander Pope instructs… “First follow Nature, and your judgment frame/By her just standard which is still the same:”-Continue Reading
Lamb, Hazlitt, and De Quincey were the three major essayists of the Romantic period. Like the poets, these essayists were personal and subjective; their essays are often candidly autobiographical, reminiscent, and self-analytic; and when the writers treated other matters than themselves, they tended to do so impressionistically, so that theContinue Reading
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