T. Joseph
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For some generation the reputation of Jonson has been carried rather as a liability than as an asset in the balance-sheet of English literature. Jonson has provided no creative stimulus for a very long time; consequently we must look back as far as Dryden—a poetic practitioner who learned from Jonson—before we find a living criticism of Jonson’s work. How in contrast, not with Shakespeare, but with Marlowe, Webster, Donne and Fletcher, Jonson has been paid ...
William Wordsworth (b. 1770) English poet credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of his Lyrical Ballads in collaboration with Coleridge. This book consists of eight well chosen articles highlighting his personal events and literary achievements. The chapters include the following: William Wordsworth: an Overview; England’s Samuel: Wordsworth in the “Hungry-Fortiesâ€; Wordsworth, Revision and the Blessed Babe: Reading the ...
The foremost poet of his time, Spenser (b. 1552), was not only a master of meter and language but a profound moral poet also. This book consists of the following chapters: Edmund Spenser: An Overview; “Wise Handling and Faire Governanceâ€: Spenser’s Female Educators; A ‘Goodlie Bridge’ Between the Old and the New: The Transformation of Complaint in Spenser’s The Ruines of Time; Translated Geographies: Edmund Spenser’s “The Ruines of Timeâ€; ...
Robert Browning, the famour Romantic poet, is noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue. This book contains authoritative information on life events of Robert Browning and presents competent critique on his literary endeavours by different scholars of repute. The information is gathered under seven chapters, namely-Robert Browning: An Overview; Browning’s Poetry; Impostures: Robert Browning and the Poetics of Forgery; Browning and the Ekphrastic Encounter; A ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Iyrical Poet, Critic and philosopher, whose Lyrical Balladas, coauthored with Wordsworth started the English Romantic Movement. This book gives a vivid account of his life events and critique of his literary works by erudite scholars on him. The main topics included herein are: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: an Overview; A Pan-African composer? Coleridge-Taylor and Africa; Romantic Improvvisatori: Coleridge, L.E.L., and the Difficulties ...
John Milton is widely considered among the five greatest poets in the domain of English language. This book is an attempt to portray his life events and present competent critique on his literary works by various reputed scholars. The book consists of the following chapters: John Milton: An Overview; Arminianism and Antinomianism: Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Construction of the Modern Conscience; a Judge After the Sentence of the Law: Fictional Consciousness ...
John Donne (b. 1572) is considered as the founder of Metaphysical Poets. This book consists of twelve chapters highlighting life and literary achievements of John Donne. An analytical approach is adopted in discussion. The main themes discussed are: John Donne: An Overview; donne’s “Elegy 19â€: The Busk between a Pair of Bodies; Talking to a Silent God: Donne’s Holy Sonnets and the Via Negativa; The Act of Preaching and the Art of Prophesying; Donne’s ...
John Dryden, an English poet and dramatist who would dominate literary efforts of The Restoration, was born in 1631 in England. He wrote almost thirty works for the stage as well as a major critical study and number of translations including the works of Virgil. He died in 1700. The main topics included in this book are: John Dryden: An Overview; The Marks of Character: Physiology and Physiognomy in ‘Absalom and Achitophel’; Radical Royalism: Strategy and ...
A poet who was ardently singing on life and himself, Walt Whitman is today claimed as one of the few truly great American men of letters. This book consists of seven articles highlighting Whitman’s life events and literary genius in comprehensive and critical way. The topics include-Walt Whitman: an Overview; Ego Psychology and the Interpretation of Walt Whitman's with Moss"; The Mediating "Whitman": Edith Wharton, Morton Fullerton and the ...
William Blake (b. 1757) is a great English Poet. The main topics, given elaborate critical treatment in this book are-William Blake: An Overview; Unbound from Wrath: Orc and Blake’s Crisis of Vision in ‘The Four Zoas’; “One Must Be Masterâ€: Patronage in Blake’s ‘Vala’; Rewriting Milton: Orality and Writing in Blake’s Milton; Blake’s London: Times and Spaces; “The History of All Times and Placesâ€: William Blake and Historical Representation ...
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Study, as the name of the title suggests, contains well researched articles on the life and literary achievements of Poe. The entire information is gathered under eight chapters viz., Edgar Allan Poe: An Overview; The Literary Works of Edgar Allan Poe; Poe and the Revenge of the Exquisite Corpse; Biographical Warfare: Silent Film and the Public Image of Poe; Poe, “Simplicity†and Blackwood’s Magazine; Poe, the Daguerreotype and ...
Although the personal element in Emily Dickinson’s verse must always be of more moment to the world at large than this element in her life, the two are inextricably bound together, and the normal pattern of our thinking confronts us first with the woman and second with her life’s work. Definitely, this will serve as a dependable reference book to one and all.