Development of English Literature Usually‚ English literature is divided into seven periods from the academic angle: The first period is Early and Medieval English literature. And this period can be divided into two parts. The first part is Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066). The main literary contribution of this period is the Epic‚ and its masterpiece is the national epic The Song of Beowulf. It is the oldest poem in the English language and the oldest surviving epic in Anglo-Saxon literature. Next is
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| Click heading below to drag About This PoemClose Become a Premium Member and post notes about your poem. Written by: Euginia Liapich Read Poems by Euginia Liapich | Form: Sonnet | + Fav Poet | + Fav Poem | Comment | Email | Print | ------------------------------------------------- Last night I dreamt Last night I dreamt Of mountain trees that ail The needle rusted red For beetle bark has ate For
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This poem represents yet another of Browning’s dramatic monologues spoken in the voice of an historical Renaissance painter. Andrea del Sarto‚ like Fra Lippo Lippi‚ lived and worked in Florence‚ albeit a little later than Lippo‚ and was later appointed court painter by Francis‚ the King of France. Under the nagging influence of his wife Lucrezia‚ to whom he speaks in this poem‚ he left the French court for Italy but promised to return; he took with him some money that Francis had given him to purchase
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In his Poetics‚ Aristotle set forth the characteristics of good tragedy. To him the two most important features of tragedy were plot and character. The plot should contain a change in fortune‚ preferably from good to bad‚ and should ideally hinge on a recognition or discovery. T The main character‚ the protagonist‚ should be a person in whom good and bad are mixed but in whom the good predominates. That definition is usually paraphrased as "a basically noble person with
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Restoration Comedy Restoration Comedy refers to English Comedies written during the Restoration period from 1660-1710. The re-opening of the theatres in 1660 after public stage performances had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime signalled a renaissance of English drama. Restoration comedy is notorious for its sexual licentiousness‚ a quality encouraged by Charles II personally and by the rakish aristocratic ethos of his court. English Drama witnessed great changes during Charles
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Excellencies‚ Ladies & Gentlemen‚ My name is Charles‚ I am a freshmen in UCLA and I am the candidate for the Student Parliament Minister of Environment. I heard that last year members of the Student Parliament did a great job by improving the school’s conditions to our needs‚ organizing events for students. However‚ I think that the Council needs some refreshment - new faces‚ new ideas are to come in and reinforce the experience of the old ones with their enthusiasm. In my opinion
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EMPIRICISM - LOCKE Empiricism is defined as the view that knowledge comes from experience via the senses‚ and that science also flourishes through observation and experiment. An Empirical Theory of Knowledge For Locke‚ all knowledge comes exclusively through experience. He argues that at birth the mind is a tabula rasa‚ or blank slate‚ that humans fill with ideas as they experience the world through the five senses. Locke defines knowledge as the connection and agreement‚ or disagreement
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“Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it‚ it was the love of virtue‚ the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed‚ that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow‚ and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair‚ in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die‚ I am well satisfied that abhorrence
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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS IN PHYSICS (CLASS XII) ELECTROSTATICS One mark questions. 1. If a point charge is rotated in a circle of radius r around a charge q‚ what will be the be the work done? 2. Does the electric potential increase or decrease along the electric line of force? 3. Give the relation between electric intensity and electric flux. 4. What is the dielectric constant of a metal? 5. What is the potential energy of two equal negative point charges 2μC each held 1m apart in air?
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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 languages spoken in England. Norman French was the birth-tongue of the upper classes and English of the lower. When
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