Literature
- London, 1802
LONDON, 1802 by: William Wordsworth 1770-1850 MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient...
- To His Love (edmund Spenser)
One day I wrote her name upon the stand But came the waves and washed it away Again I wrote it with a second hand But came the tide , and made my pains his prey Vain man , said she , that does in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize For I myself...
- Basic Sonnet Forms
SONNET: A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes. the four types are: English/ Shakespearean sonnet The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet after its foremost practitioner) comprises three quatrains...
- Famous Writers & Their Work
Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): writers: Caedmon and Cynewulf. work: Beowulf (by anonymous). 1200-1500: Middle English Period : Geoffrey Chaucer's(1343-1400) : The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess. Other Major...
- A Brief History Of English Literature
Old English English, as we know it, descends from the language spoken by the north Germanic tribes who settled in England from the 5th century A.D. onwards. They had no writing (except runes, used as charms) until they learned the Latin alphabet from...
Literature
John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 ? 8 November 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. Best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is also known for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica.
Very soon after his death (and continuing to the present day) Milton became the subject of partisan biographies, confirming T. S. Eliot's belief that "of no other poet is it so difficult to consider the poetry simply as poetry, without our theological and political dispositions... making unlawful entry".[1] Milton's radical, republican politics and heretical religious views, coupled with the perceived artificiality of his complicated Latinate verse, alienated Eliot and other readers; Samuel Johnson disparaged him as "an acrimonious and surly republican.?
Very soon after his death (and continuing to the present day) Milton became the subject of partisan biographies, confirming T. S. Eliot's belief that "of no other poet is it so difficult to consider the poetry simply as poetry, without our theological and political dispositions... making unlawful entry".[1] Milton's radical, republican politics and heretical religious views, coupled with the perceived artificiality of his complicated Latinate verse, alienated Eliot and other readers; Samuel Johnson disparaged him as "an acrimonious and surly republican.?
- London, 1802
LONDON, 1802 by: William Wordsworth 1770-1850 MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient...
- To His Love (edmund Spenser)
One day I wrote her name upon the stand But came the waves and washed it away Again I wrote it with a second hand But came the tide , and made my pains his prey Vain man , said she , that does in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize For I myself...
- Basic Sonnet Forms
SONNET: A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes. the four types are: English/ Shakespearean sonnet The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet after its foremost practitioner) comprises three quatrains...
- Famous Writers & Their Work
Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): writers: Caedmon and Cynewulf. work: Beowulf (by anonymous). 1200-1500: Middle English Period : Geoffrey Chaucer's(1343-1400) : The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess. Other Major...
- A Brief History Of English Literature
Old English English, as we know it, descends from the language spoken by the north Germanic tribes who settled in England from the 5th century A.D. onwards. They had no writing (except runes, used as charms) until they learned the Latin alphabet from...