Travellers in the 18th century literature During the 18th Century privileged young Englishmen often filled their time between a university education and the beginning of a career with an extended tour of continental Europe. The Grand Tour is in essence a British invention because by the 18th Century Britain was the wealthiest nation in the world and had a large upper class with both the time and the money to travel. Two classics of world literature Robinson Crusoe wrote by Daniel Defoe and Gulliver´s
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English novel. Henry Fielding was in fact a satirist and initially he was known for his satirical works on the political corruption of his times. His work shows the realistic approach towards portraying the picture of the contemporary society. Fielding’s first venture into prose fiction was the effect of Samuel Richardson’s” Pamela” and Fielding himself defined his novel Joseph Andrews as comic epic poem in prose. Published in 1742‚ Joseph Andrews is the story of the adventures of a very chaste‚ good
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known as the Puritan Interregnum). 1558-1603 Elizabethan Age The Elizabethan Age of English Literature coincides with the reign of Elizabeth I‚ 1558 - 1603. During this time‚ medieval tradition was blended with Renaissance optimism. Lyric poetry‚ prose‚ and drama were the major styles of literature that flowered during the Elizabethan Age. Some important writers of the Elizabethan Age include William Shakespeare‚ Christopher Marlowe‚ Edmund Spenser‚ Sir Walter Raleigh‚ and Ben Jonson. 1603-1625
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TEXTS ON THE C.X.C. SYLLABUS A World of Poetry edited by: Mark McWatt & Hazel Simmons-McDonald A World of Prose edited by: David Williams & Hazel Simmons-McDonald A Mid-Summer Nights Dream edited by: William Shakespeare Old Story Time edited by: Trevor Rhone Wine Of Astonishment edited by:
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LOCK ’. Mock-epic‚ also known as mock-heroic poetry is a juxtaposition of trivial subject matter and grandeur epic style. From the fundamental point of view‚ mock-epic is nothing but the most popular neo-classical burlesque used as a double-edged satirical weapon. Batrachomyomachia‚ an anonymous parody‚ attributed to Homer‚ is most probably the earliest example of mock-epic genre. Alexander Pope was the central figure of Augustan Age‚ for his best mock-heroic poetry The Rape of the Lock‚ written based
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Terminology 1.Paradox: statement that is self-contradictory on the surface‚ yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless. Ex. whoever loses his life shall find it. 2. Soliloquy/ Aside: A dramatic device used by actors/actress that reveals specific information about themselves and their inner thoughts that are not revealed to the other characters‚ only the audience. 3. Euphemism: Substituting a more favorable word for another‚ which may be a socially delicate term Ex. He’s dead. (Socially indelicate)
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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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publicistic style has features in common with the style of scientific prose‚ on the one hand‚ and that of emotive prose‚ on the other. Its coherent and logical syntactical structure‚ with an expanded system of connectives and its careful paragraphing‚ makes it similar to scientific prose. Its emotional appeal is generally achieved by the use of words with emotive meaning‚ the use of imagery and other stylistic devices as in emotive prose; but the stylistic devices used in publicistic style are not fresh
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with creating the detective story genre and with transforming the Gothic mystery tale of the Romantic Period into the modern horror or murder stories centered in the outlying regions of human mind and experience. But he also wrote several comic and satirical pieces‚ literary parodies‚ sketches‚ and experimental stories‚ including "A Descent into the Maelstrom‚" and his novella‚ The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. His most famous poems"The Raven‚" "Ulalume‚" "The Bells‚" "The City in the Sea"were enormously
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Political Satire: Absalom and Achitophel‚ Part I. It would not serve any purpose to dwell upon the general morigeration of Dryden‚ who‚ in this as in other respects‚ was “hurried down” the times in which he lived‚ to the leaders of politics and fashion‚ to the king’s ministers‚ favourites and mistresses‚ or upon the flatteries which‚ in dedications and elsewhere‚ he heaped upon the king himself‚ and upon his brother the duke. The attempts‚ however‚ which have been made to show that his pen was
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