Working on an assignment or a project requires a lot of work, working in a group helps in quicker results. Working in a group makes it easier to focus, having more people in the team means one can divide the workload according to one’s strength. The variety in skills and […]
The origin of New criticism is rather complex and apparently contradictory – especially in its theoretical and critical positions and practices. It is in sharp reaction to sociological or Marxian criticism which regarded literature as a product of society. It stressed on textual criticism. It is just like establishing a […]
Sylvia Plath deals with multi-dimensional themes in her poetry but she has worked mainly with the theme of death and suicides. In all of Plath’s poetry the theme of death is very prominent. Plath’s work is heavily autobiographical which depicts her life and influenced her poetic sensibility. Three biographical facts […]
The first four parts of The Wasteland are made up of sets of what may be called images. Eliot speaks through many voices and characters in the course of the poem; all of them see what is around them as a wasteland. The reader gets a variety of insights into […]
Renaissance is a religious movement and as such it relates not only to literary revival but it has grassroot connections with political and social movements also. Literature flourished during the period of Tudor Monarch. After the death of Henry VII, King Henry came to power who was a great lover […]
Spenser’s poetry owes and at the same time differs from his contemporary tradition of Petrarchan sonnets. Spenser wrote two comparatively longer poems which infact are two major nuptial songs- The Epithalamion and The Prothalamion. Both the poems deals with the theme of celebration of marriage but in a different style […]
One of the most popular of the Victorian novelists was Charles Dickens. It was his stint as a reporter in The True Sun that gave him an idea about his genius. His first book Sketches by Boz was a collection of stories and descriptive pieces written for various papers. However, […]
The Victorian Period, almost coincident in extent with the reign of the queen whose name it bears (Queen Victoria 1837-1901), stands nearly beside The Elizabethan Period in the significance and interest of its work. The first great figure in prose, in the period, and one of the most clearly-defined and […]
The nineteenth century was the great age of the English novel. This was partly because this essentially middle-class form of literary art was bound to flourish increasingly as the middle classes rose in power and importance, partly because of the steady increase of the reading public with the growth of […]
First published in January 1845 Poe’s The Raven appeared in the New York Evening Mirror. The poem is about a distraught lover who was visited by a raven, an ominous bird who ultimately drags his soul “shall be lifted nevermore!” In other words, the raven’s ‘Nevermore’ goads the speaker into […]
The full title of this poem is “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour July 13th, 1798”. It opens with the speaker’s declaration that five years have passed since he last visited this location, encountered its tranquil, rustic scenery, […]
The term “Victorian” is applied to England during Queen Victoria’s reign to describe the self-righteous, repressive and authoritarian culture of the middle classes who prided themselves on the wealth and position the nation achieved through the industrial revolution and on Britain’s leading position in the world as the major industrial […]
Forster began writing A Passage to India in 1913, just after his first visit in India. The novel was not revised and completed, however, until well after his second stay in India in 1921, when he served as a secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas State Senior. Published in 1924, […]
Andrew Marvell is an impressive robust in the metaphysical tradition not just for his copious use of characteristically metaphysical wit, conceit and imageries, his exhibition that affects one’s intellect as much as his emotion, but also for the argumentative and logical evolution of his lyrics that shows a peculiar blend […]
Beckett is considered to be an important figure among the French Absurdist’s. “Waiting for Godot”, is one of the masterpieces of Absurdist literature. Elements of Absurdity for making this play are very engaging and lively. Beckett combats the traditional notions of Time. It attacks the two main ingredients of the […]
EDUINDEX NEWS 
You must be logged in to post a comment.