AD's English Literature

  What is a Biography?  In the late seventeenth century, the famous English poet-critic-playwright Dryden, in the context of the definition of biography, said, 'History of the life of a particular person'.  At present, in a biography we find a fairly complete account of the events of a person's life, as well as an assessment of his character, experiences and actions, and a picture of contemporary epochs.  When a person's life events and the nature of his character are written in a completely neutral way, it is called a biography.  According to L. Strachey, the biography is, “A mass of notes and documents is no more a biography than a mountain of eggs or omelette.  "A good biography is like a marriage: it requires a sympathetic union of writer and topic."  To write a  biography the author needs  a wide range of sources, strategies, and insights. He has to  deal with the intimate, inconsistent textures of personality and experience. Ideall...

 What is Poetry? Poetry is born when the form, rasa, smell, sound, touch of the material world, that is, the world of the senses, is absorbed in the sweetness of the poet's mind and acquires a rhythmic and artistic form. Indicating the history and purpose of the birth of poetry, Rabindranath Tagore said that the poet collects the words from the heart in his imagination and makes the ordinary very extraordinary and what was imaginative, he made it physical or figurative. Infact, Various attempts have been made to define poetry. Many people want to capture the meaning in different ways.  Dr Samuel Johnson called poetry a metrical composition. Elsewhere, he sees poetry as a combination of joy and truth, "the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason." Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, etc. have discussed in detail the form of poetry, subject matter, etc. According to Wordsworth, poetry is the spontane...