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William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright Famous plays include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. Shakespeare is widely considered the seminal writer of the English language. Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Anglo-Irish writer born in Dublin Swift was a prominent satirist, essayist and author. Notable works include Gulliver’s Travels (1726), A Modest Proposal and A Tale of a Tub. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British author best known for his compilation of the English dictionary. Although not the first attempt at a dictionary, it was widely considered to be the most comprehensive – setting the standard for later dictionaries . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) German poet , playwright, and author Notable works of Goethe include: Faust, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Elective Affinities. Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) English author who wrote romantic fiction combined with social rea...

Ten of the Best Canadian Literary Voices Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) Best known for his Booker Prize winning novel turned Academy Award winning film, The English Patient (1992),Sri Lankan born writer Michael Ondaatje gained Canadian citizenship following his move to the country in 1962. His broad range of work, which covers the territories of fiction, autobiography, poetry and film, has found its way into school curricula across Canada. Other notable offerings include In the Skin of a Lion (1987), a fictional account of immigrants who played a profound role in the construction of Toronto but were subsequently blown over in records of the time period, and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970), a book of poetry speculating on various events in the life of William Bonney, otherwise known as Billy the Kid. Eden Robinson (b. 1968) As a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations, novelist and short story writer Eden Robinson demonstrates a consistent preoccupation with Haisla c...

Different types of irony Irony is when something happens against what one have expected. There are different types of irony : 1 verbal irony When one say something but means differently. E.g. you are so horrible. When you mean to say you are so intelligent. " yes, you are very much intelligent " means that you are a fool. 2 dramatic irony In a drama when a character is ignorant of the coming situation but the audience know that what's going to happen. E.g. in Julius Caesar, Caesar is going to the Senate, he is unaware of the plot of his murder, but the audience know that. Writer use dramatic irony to develop audience interest in the action. 3 situational irony It is that irony, when a person has intended to do something but suddenly happens something else. E.g. A person who has prepared himself sited booted to attend an interview, but in the way he fell in a ditch of water due to dogs barking. 4 Socratic irony It is said that Socrates would used to show hims...

Hist ory of English  Literature* 450-1066 : Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period 1066-1500 : Middle English Period 1500-1660 : The Renaissance 1558-1603 : Elizabethan Age 1603-1625 : Jacobean Age 1625-1649 : Caroline Age 1649-1660 : Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum) 1660-1785 : The Neoclassical Period 1660-1700 : The Restoration 1700-1745 : The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope) 1745-1785 : The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) 1785-1830 : The Romantic Period 1832-1901 : The Victorian Period 1848-1860 : The Pre-Raphaelites 1880-1901 : Aestheticism and Decadence 1901-1914 : The Edwardian Period 1910-1936 : The Georgian Period 1914-1945 : The Modern Period 1945 -present : Postmodern Period The Old English Period or the Anglo-Saxon Period refers to the literature produced from the invasion of Celtic England by Germanic tribes in the first half of the fifth century to the conquest of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror. During the O...

: List of Elegies: 1. Adonais - Shelley (death of Keats) 2. Astrophel - Sidney (death of Spencer) 3.In Memoriam - Tennyson ( death of Arthur Henry Hallam) 4. Thyrsis - Matthew Arnold ( death of Arthur Hugh Clough) 5. On my first sonne - Ben Johnson ( death of his son) 6. When Licas lost in the doria bloomed- Walt Whitman ( death of Lincoln) 7. In Memory of W. B Yeats - W. H Auden 8. Rugby Chapel - Matthew Arnold ( death of his father) 9. Memorial verses - Mathew Arnold 10. Wordsworth's grave - William Watson 11. Heine's grave - Matthew Arnold 12. Elegy written in the country churchyard - Thomas Gray ( loss of faith) 13. Meditation upon death ( Thanatopsis )- William Cullen Bryant 14. O Captain My captain - Walt Whitman ( death of Lincoln ) 15. Elegy on his Cat - Joachim Du Belly.

*Some Basic Terms Coined by Writers in Literature* 1. Objective Correlative by T.S.Eliot 2. Dissociation of Sensibility by T.S.Eliot 3. Willing to Suspension of Disbelief by Coleridge 4. Negative Capability by Keats 5. American Renaissance by F.O Matthiessen 6.Natyashastra by Bharata 7. Rasa concept by Bharata 8. Kavya Prakasha by Mamata 9. Dhvanyaloka or Suggestion by Anandvardhana 10. Vakrokti by Kuntaka 11. Riti, Guna, Kavyalankara by Vaman 12. Positivism by August Campte 13. Romantic by Friedrich Schlegel 14. Metaphysical Poets by Dr.Johnson 15. Upstart Crow is Robert Green 16. Cultural Materialism by Raymond Williams 17. Imagism by T.E.Hume 18. Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson 19. Horizon of Expectation by H.R.Jauss 20. Strategic Essentialism by Gayitri Spivak 21. Utilitarianism by J.S..Mill 22. Incunabula means Books published before 1501 23. Tension by Allen Tate 24. Strong Lined Poetry by G.M.Hopkins 25. Dictum 'Life Imitates Art...