Introduction Indeed, Roald Dahl was a rare genius. He gave children stories that cut through the ordinary and made imagination feel dangerous, funny, and true. His books were not soft fairy tales. Roald Dahl’s stories were bold, mischievous, and edged with shadows. In Dahl’s worlds, small voices carried power, villains fell hard, and the line …
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Early Life and Education Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in Horsham, Sussex. From childhood, he showed a sharp memory and a love for learning. At Syon House Academy, he faced bullying and strange nightmares, yet discovered a passion for science, experimenting with electricity, acids, and even gunpowder. In 1804, he entered Eton College. …
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was sent to a day school run by the vicar of Warnham church at the age of six, where he displayed an impressive memory and gift for languages. At ten years old, he enrolled at the Syon House Academy of Brentford, Middlesex, where his cousin Thomas Medwin was a pupil. Shelley was …
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A Master Constructor of ‘Macabre and Dark Humor’ Darkness and Humor are recurring and underlying elements of Roald Dahl’s writing style. Darkness was part of his life since early childhood, but despite its frequent recurrence, be it during war or in the form of illness, towards life. The author is versatile in his employment …
Eros is the Greek god of love. It represents romantic or passionate love. This one is most popular form of all types of love in literature, especially in the classics and pre-classics, and likewise alluring. The more famous are Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice, and Anna Karenina. The word Philia stems from Philos. It …
In the autumn of 1818, a love affair began when twenty – three year old John Keats met eighteen – year old Fanny Brawne. The thirty – seven surviving love letters and notes shared between Keats and Brawne bears compelling witness of tenderness, passion and intensity. It was the first love most of us dream …
JOHN KEATS : ETHICS AND AESTHETICS The Romantics took upon themselves the task of recovering art from what Bernstein has termed as “aesthetic alienation” – the separation of art from questions of truth and goodness. No other poet felt the burden of art’s separation from truth and yet it’s commitment to being true and to …
The prestigious emergence of music and art are parallel. The tradition of the ‘sister arts’, shows the closest sister to poetry is painting. Simonides of Ceos claimed that painting is mute poetry, poetry a speaking picture. Horace said, ut picture poesis, ‘as is a picture, so is poetry’. Perhaps the intimate connection between poetry and …
The most living thing in Keats’s poetry is the recreation of sensuous beauty, first as a source of delight for its own sake, then as a symbol of the life of the mind and the emotions. Speculated and philosophical interests always formed the major part of Shelley’s experience and the young Wordsworth for a time …
T.S.Eliot’s juvenilia display the influence of Victorian aestheticism, his studies at Harvard, especially the influence of Irving Babbitt’s lectures there, helped foster his repudiation of the Romantic forebears of turn – of – the – century poetics. George Bornstein notes that “Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth became a sort of anti – Trinity for Eliot,” but …
Romantic and Gothic Literature Romantic literature is marked by six primary characteristics: celebration of nature, focus on the individual and spirituality, celebration of isolation and melancholy, interest in the common man, idealisation of women and personification and pathetic fallacy. Gothic Literature or fiction refers to a style of writing that is characterised by elements of …
‘If music be the food of love, play on.’ Given that recent years have seen the revival of the character and the author, it should not be surprising to see the notion of the author as didactic comes back as well. William Shakespeare advocates a model of honour and love through his plays. In Romeo …