AD's English Literature

 R ashipuram Krishnaswami Narayan (1906-2001) popularly known as R.K. Narayan is the  legend of English literature in India . His readers  widely spread all over India and abroad love him for his realistic idea and rhetorical humour in his writings. Simple but eloquent in representation is the simplest form of his intellectual grip and for this Mr. Narayan leaves impression on his readers mind to become not only the greatest Indian author in English literature hut also an unequivocally versatile genius in his own wonderland of creativeness.  

“Never the least stir made the listeners Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.”- Walter de la Mare The Listeners Walter De La Mare is the best— known of modern poets who have excelled in writing verses for children as well as adult. He has the direct vision, of childhood as well as the child’s love for simple things but has the notion of deep introspection. Read More Poetry   Though his imagination and intellects are almost always fully adult, he can admirably convey through his poems both the charming ignorance and the divine incomprehensibility of childhood. His success in this sphere depends chiefly on the fact that, like Blake, he is a master in the art of understatement—'he can take the world in his band and call it a grain of sand.' Walter De La Mare Mare’s poetry has the same inexplicable charm at the romantic supernaturalism of the...

“ When, indeed, Edward Thomas was killed in Flanders, a mirror of England was shattered of so pure and true a crystal that a clearer and tenderer reflection of it can be found no where than in these poems.” — Walter de Ia Mare   The Poet’ Life and His Prose Works: Edward Thomas was born in London in 1878. His father, a practically minded civil servant, took great care for the education of Edward. Read More History of English Literature (Essay) He had his school education at St. Paul s School and then entered the Lincoln College, Oxford.  The family hailed from Wales. Edward as a boy heard a good many stories from his father about their native home in Wales, Even as a boy lie had a good store of tales and legends of Wales. Then as a fully grown up Youngman he undertook a walking tour in Wales. The impression of this tour is recorded in an attractive prose work Beautiful Wales. His second interest was English countryside. Read More Men That Keep Attention The Heart of En...

George Bernard Shaw  (1856-1950) and William Shakespeare  (1564-1616) are the two greatest dramatists of England. They lived in different ages and worked under different conditions of time and circumstances. Their mental attitudes and dramatic methods too were different. So, there can be no comparison between them just as there can be no comparison between a modern battleship and an Elizabethan man-of-war. But in spite of all their differences they resemble each other in one important respect that both of them have made valuable contributions to the development of the English drama by using the heterogeneous dramatic materials of their respective ages and welding them into a harmonious whole by the wizardry of their dramatic genius. Both Shaw and Shakespeare were masters of their craft, and their works have had a lasting impact on the world. However, they also represent different eras and different ways of thinking. Shakespeare was a product of the Elizabethan era, a time o...

Born in 1856 in a well-known westernized family in Kolkata, To r u Dutt has the advantage of good education and happy family environment. When Trou is six, the entire family embraces Christianity. Luckily, in Taru’s care, the conversion to Christianity is neither violent nor does it result in an automatic rejection to Hindu Culture. Read More Men That Keep Attention   Indeed, Toru may be reedited with being the first Indian English poet extensively to use Indian myths. Occasionally, her Christianity d o es surface in her renderings, but by and large, it is as a sympathetic insertion Indian Culture that she writes. Toru mainly writes in English and French. H.A.L Fisher writes, " this did of the green valley of the Ganges have by sheer force of native genius earned for herself the right to be enrolled in the great fellowship of English poets.” Toru Dutt is known to us by her book, The Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan which contains the tragus lotion of ancient myths in ...

During the Gandhian Age (1920-1947) there has been a tremendous upheaval in the political, social and economic spheres. As there has been an unprecedented awakening among the every section of society, the major triumvirate of Indian English fiction- Mulk Raj Anand , R.K. Naranayan and Raja Rao- start to revolutionize the writing by newer ideas and ideals. Ordinary men and women come alive in the s e pages. The sympathetic understanding of the middle class, seeking extraordinary in ordinary, their works comparable to the best in the genre. We will now sketch the picturesque beauty of Narayan’s work . Read More Men That Keep Attention   R.K. Narayan-as is the practice in south India, the two initials preceding Narayan stand respectively for the village from which Narayan’s family comes and the name of his father. R is for Rasipuram, a talucas in the district of Salem, to which Narayan’s ancestors belonged. By the time Narayan was born (10 th oct, 1907), the family had moved to...

                                                         The first Indian poet in English Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was born in 1809. By the early influence of his mother and teacher, establishing the dimension of his thinking and writing, he wrote The Fakir of Junghera, a Metrical Tale (1828) inspired by the gigantic rock rising out of a river and woven around a young Brahmin widow. Read More Men That Keep Attention This poem launched him on his rewarding poetic car eer- he came into contact with john Craft, Editor of The Examiner who helped him to get an important position in The Indian Gazette .    Henry L . V . Derozio As a poet, creditable are his achievements , Derozio is to be chiefly a...