English Romantic poet John Keats was born on October 31‚ 1795‚ in London. The oldest of four children‚ he lost both his parents at a young age. His father‚ a livery-stable keeper‚ died when Keats was eight; his mother died of tuberculosis six years later. After his mother’s death‚ Keats’s maternal grandmother appointed two London merchants‚ Richard Abbey and John Rowland Sandell‚ as guardians. Abbey‚ a prosperous tea broker‚ assumed the bulk of this responsibility‚ while Sandell played only a minor
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Congreve : The way of the World Goldsmith : She stoops to conquer Unit-III - MODERN LITERATURE (1798 - 1832) Poetry For Detailed Study Wordsworth : Immortality Ode‚ Tintern Abbey Coleridge : Ode to Dejection‚ Kubla Khan Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn‚ Ode to Autumn. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
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* History of Neo-Classical Age:- 1. The Age of Neo-Classical in English Literature. 2. Neo-Classical can be divided into three parts. 3. Characteristic of the Neo-Classical Age. 4. Poetry. 5. Court Poets. 6. Satiric Poets. 7. Some poets of Neo-classical Age‚ -Mathew Prior -Alexander Pope -James Thomson -Edward Young -William Collins -Thomas Gray -Robert Burns -John Dryden
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to act (to follow all orders and rules). Two of the first actual teachers in history were Confucius and Herodotus. Confucius was a renowned‚ Chinese philosopher and teacher who created the 5 classics: Book of Odes‚ Book of Documents‚ Book of Changes‚ Book of Rites‚ and the Spring and Autumn Annals. Each book taught emotion‚ spirituality‚ and history. Herodotus traveled from one territory to another gathering information on the Persian Wars. “After he died‚ editors divided his Histories into nine
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CHRONOLOGICAL OVERVIEW OF G12 POETRY 2012 Renaissance 1500-1600s * Dominant literary forms: Drama; sonnets and iambic pentameter (plus trochaic metre) * Journeys of discovery of New World; scientific discoveries * Rise of Humanism – focus on humans and start of decline of religion * In the two poems below the first one sees that we age and die (no mention of God)‚ while the second holds on to the idea of a God and serving God | | 1. When I do count the clock that tells the time
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Memorial on the burning of books was a policy embraced by Qin’s First Emperor during 213 BC. Books of the hundred schools of thought on ideologies and philosophers of the Spring and Autumn/Warring states period. Included Confucianism and Taoism were burned. This led to the vanishing of various scripts on schools of thought and added to open dispute from civilians against Qin’s rule. The first emperor Qin Shi Huang want to be in complete power and so in the event that researchers had distinctive thoughts
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1 Annexure ‘I’ M.A. English Part-I & II The Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) and Appendix ‘B’ (Syllabi & Courses of Reading for M.A. English Part-I and Part-II shall be effective from the Session 2002-2003. The class admitted in the year 2002 will take their M.A. English Part-I Examination of 2003 according to new syllabus in the year 2003: - M.A. (English) Part I Examination of 2003 Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) Marks Paper I (Classical Poetry) Paper II (Drama) Paper III (Novel) Paper
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feeling of Romanticism. Percy Shelly is known for a number of magnificent works including Ozymandias‚ Ode to the West Wind‚ To a Skylark‚ Music‚ When Soft Voices Die‚ and Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. These poems create a vivid feeling of the expression of beauty and imagination. A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty really show his imagination mixed with love. To a Skylarks beauty flows off the page and Ode to the West Wind creates the feeling of life. Although Ozymandias strays away from his usual emotions
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Johann Sebastian Bach Biography: Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21‚ 1685‚ in Eisenach‚ Thuringia‚ Germany‚ into a large and distinguished family of professional musicians. His father‚ named Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ was a violinist and trumpeter‚ employed by the city of Eisenach. His uncles were church organists‚ court musicians and composers. His mother and father died before Bach was 10. As an orphan‚ he moved in with
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Weddings and a Funeral‚ 1994 "As I Walked Out One Evening" Before Sunrise‚ 1995 Baudelaire‚ Charles “The Albatross” A Very Long Engagement‚ 2004 “The Jewels” La Letrice [The Reader]‚ 1988 Biermann‚ Wolf “The Girl from Stuttgart” Germany in Autumn‚ 1978 Bishop‚ Elizabeth "One Art" In Her Shoes‚ 2005 Blake‚ William "The Tyger" The End of the Affair‚ 1955 The Horse’s Mouth‚ 1958 Blade Runner‚ 1982 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys‚ 2002 “America: A Prophecy” “The Fly” Blade Runner
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