The following handout is an abridged version of John Dryden’s A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire (1693). You must read this document carefully. There has been a long dispute among the modem critics‚ whether the Romans derived their satire from the Grecians‚ or first invented it themselves. Julius Scaliger‚ and Heinsius‚ are of the first opinion; Casaubon‚ Rigaltius‚ Dacier‚ and the publisher of the Dauphin∗s Juvenal‚ maintain the latter. If we take satire in the general
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As a poet Arnold is generally admitted to rank among the Victorians next after Tennyson and Browning. The criticism‚ partly true‚ that he was not designed by Nature to be a poet but made himself one by hard work rests on his intensely‚ and at the outset coldly‚ intellectual and moral temperament. He himself‚ in modified Puritan spirit‚ defined poetry as a criticism of life; his mind was philosophic; and in his own verse‚ inspired by Greek poetry‚ by Goethe and Wordsworth‚ he realized his definition
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Equality in Education Ch.2 of Bryan Wilson‚ ed.‚ Education‚ Equality and Society‚ London‚ 1975‚ pp.39-61. I To speak of equality in education is rather like speaking of equality in love. Young men sometimes wax indignant about the unfairness of their lot‚ and say there ought to be arrangements whereby the available girls should be shared out equally‚ so that everyone should get his whack; or‚ more sophisticatedly‚ that the most desirable girls should be made to bestow their favours on egalitarian
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Topic: Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi as an Elegy CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 2 Ahmed Ali earned for himself
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)‚ The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) Qui inter hæc nutriuntur non magis sapere possunt‚ quam bene olere qui in culinâ habitant. PETRONIUS. OETRY‚ like the world‚ may be said to have four ages‚ but in a different order: the first age of poetry being the age of iron; the second‚ of gold; the third‚ of silver; and the fourth‚ of brass. ¶2 §2 The first‚ or iron age of poetry‚ is that in which rude bards celebrate in rough numbers the exploits of ruder chiefs‚ in days when
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From the Conquest to Chaucer 1066-1400 The Norman conquest of England‚ in the 11th century‚ made a break in the natural growth of the English language and literature. The Old English or Anglo-Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech‚ with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections. For three hundred years following the battle of Hastings this native tongue was driven from the king’s court and the courts of law‚ from Parliament‚ school‚ and university. During all this time there were two
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SONNET ‘A very useful book indeed‚ and one which will add to the scope of current debates about the sonnet.’ John Drakakis‚ University of Stirling In this indispensable introductory study of the Renaissance sonnet‚ Michael R.G.Spiller takes the reader on an illuminating guided tour. He begins with the invention of the sonnet in thirteenth-century Italy and traces its progress through to the time of Milton‚ showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express
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ANA-MARIA TRANTESCU CLAUDIA PISOSCHI ENGLISH SEMANTICS Curs universitar pentru Învăţământ la distanţă EDITURA UNIVERSITARIA CRAIOVA‚ 2012 CONTENTS forEwOrd....................................................................................................4 Unit I
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Chapter one the first civilization I. Introduction A. The Idea of Civilization The West is an idea that developed slowly during Greek and Roman civilization. Initially the Greeks referred to their homeland as the Europe—or “West.” The Romans took up the concept and applied it to the western half of their empire. Asia—or the East—was similarly a geographical innovation of the Greeks and Romans. Asia was that land that belonged to non-Greek cultures of Asia Minor‚ particularly the Persians
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M E TA P H O R This page intentionally left blank METAPHOR A Practical Introduction Second Edition zoltán kövecses Exercises written with Réka Benczes Zsuzsanna Bokor Szilvia Csábi Orsolya Lazányi Eszter Nucz 1 2010 3 Oxford University Press‚ Inc.‚ publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research‚ scholarship‚ and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai
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