AD's English Literature

   Ode to Evening by William Collins If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales, O nymph reserved, while now the bright-haired sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy dark'ning vale May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved return! For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant hours, and elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge A...

 EPISTLE II OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HIMSELF, AS AN INDIVIDUAL KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic’s pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas’ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much: Chaos of thought and passion, all confus’d; Still by himself abus’d or disabus’d; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl’d: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!      Know then thyself , presume not God to scan; This is a case of Antithesis because both parts of the statement which appear in balanc...

1 . “It may be neat, compact and rigid; but it may also be wayward, expansive and flexible. So long as it does not conflict with the fundamental principles of drama, it may venture into a hundred different directions and exploit almost as many themes as the ingenuity and inventiveness of the author can suggest”- Herman Ould on one act play  2. John Millington Synge (1871-1909) ’s “Riders To the Sea” is characteristically so different yet great one act play. It is a one act play that discusses its natural setting, plot construction, characterization and overall impressions on life in a newly accomplish mood. 3. The plot centers around Aran Islands , also Arana Naomh, group of three small islands, western Ireland, in the Atlantic Ocean, at the mouth of Galway Bay. The islands, part of county Galway, are Inishmore, the largest, Inishmaan, and Inisheer. Fishing has always been the main industry, and some islanders still use the fishing methods of their ancestors. The ru...

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers a. Etherege, Wyeherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh and Farquhar contributed a great deal to the development of the comedy of manners. b. The society mirrored in the comedy of manners was the society of the court of Charles II. It was careless, intend only on pleasure and intrigue.The comedy which depicted this society had an air of abandon and immorality. c. “All human things are subject to decay.” This is the beginnings of John Dryden's poem, Mac Flecknoe .

                       A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers a.       Mathew Prior’s Alma is an imitation of Hudibras. b.        Solomon is a long and serious poem by Addison . c.        Pope’s two translated works are Iliad and Odyssey. d.       Moral Essays was written by Pope. e.       Horace Walpole: Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel.

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers (a) An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope appeared in 1711. Written in heroic couplet the poem professes to the gospel of wit and nature as it applies to the literature of the age.  (b) Phillis Wheatley’s poetry ( Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral ) begins a powerful African American tradition in American poetry.  (c) Dunciad (a satire) is the longest of pope’s work. (d) The age of pope is called classical age, because the poets of that age aimed at clerical perfection of form. They wanted to achieve the formal beauty which the poet of Rome attained under Emperor Augustus. That is why the age is treated a part of the Augustus age is English literature.

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers a. George Chapman is chiefly remembered as translator of Homer. b. Between 1562 and 1591 chronicle play dealing with real characters of history developed with an astonishing rapidity. c. The Victorian age is an age of sensibility of large charity and deeper faith is humanity. d. The marked character of Victorian literature is that it tries to teach and improve and reform. e. Andrea Del Sarto , a poem by Browning describes the strength and weakness of painter. f.   William Langland wrote The Piers Ploughman is an allegory of life. The poet lies down on the Malvin Hills on a morning and a vision came to him in his sleep. g. If The Canterbury tales had been completed according plan, there should have been one hundred and twenty eight tales. However Chaucer could complete twenty and left four unfinished. h. Ralph Royster Doyster is the first true play in English with a regular plot and acts and scene...