the 1830’s‚ Thomas Carlyle will write that "the Cash Nexus" has already replaced the feudal‚ hierarchical ties that once kept British society together. Writing at "ground zero" of this titanic change in human affairs‚ Romantic poets like Blake and Wordsworth respond sharply to England’s changing landscapes and human relationships. "Nature" is no longer simply god’s gift‚ as previous generations might have thought; some Romantic poets see nature-and the human sources of strength and happiness they believe
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FAMOUS WRITERS WORKS Caedmon and Cynewulf. Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer’s(1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales‚ Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess‚ The House of Fame‚ The Parliament of Fowles‚ The Legend of Good Women. Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe. Short Poems The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ‚Truth‚ Gentilesse‚ Merciles Beaute‚ Lak of Stedfastnesse‚ Against Women Unconstant Thomas Malory’s (1405-1471) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Utopia‚ The History
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To a Skylark By Percy Bysshe Shelley Hail to thee‚ blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert‚ That from Heaven‚ or near it‚ Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest‚ And singing still dost soar‚ and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning
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To acquaint ourselves with the spirit of Romanticism in England in the Nineteenth century we may turn to the prose works of the period along side the famous poetry of the age. The impetus gained by English prose in the Eighteenth century continued in this century‚ but with a distinct change in subject and tone. Unlike the coffee-table essays of the previous century‚ the form of essay that became popular in this age was the personal essay. This form was honed by the personal genius of Charles Lamb
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past the harshness of the world and beyond worldly possessions. When Shelley was out for a walk one day he heard a carefree skylark whistling its melodic tune through the sky and that moment instilled such joy in him‚ he felt he had to share it with the rest of the world. That instance is what inspired one of his most famous poems‚ To a Skylark. The poem explains that the skylark is a beautiful creature‚ but it is the flawless song of the bird that makes it an everlasting symbol of happiness and perfection
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UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A. HONOURS & GENERAL COURSES OF STUDIES ENGLISH 2010 1 W.E.F. 2010-2011 SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A( HONOURS & GENERAL) COURSES OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH‚2010 HONOURS Word-limit for the answers for the honours papers Full marks of the questions → 16 7 12 8 14 4 9 5 18 10 15 35 20 Word-limit of the answers → 600 250 450 300 500 150 350 200 700 400 550 1000
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quintessential‚ poet of the late Romantic era‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ explores the deeply ingrained yet paradoxical state of permanence and impermanent thought within and around humans as idealised in his poems “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” and “To a Skylark”. Both poems illustrate revelations of humanities transience in comparison to nature as well as the nexus of idealism and escapism‚ a thematic prose of the eccentric unworldliness of Romantic poets. Shelley’s 1816 poem “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
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Victorian Age The beginning of the Victorian Period is dated sometimes as 1832 (the passage of the first Reform Bill) and sometimes as 1837 (the accession of Queen Victoria). It extends to the death of Victoria in 1901. But when we refer the history book of W. J. Long and literary terms of M. H. Abraham‚ we find that the period between 1850 -1900 is regarded as the Victorian Period‚ which is also known as the Age of Compromise and the Age of Peace and Prosperity. When Victoria came on the
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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 it is a great work of art and is very imaginative. To a Skylark Shelly describes the beauty of a skylark. The bird
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SPOKEN ENGLISH AND BROKEN ENGLISH George Bernard Shaw is perhaps one of the most prolific writers of the modern era. Though he is best known as a playwright‚ Shaw was also a respected critic‚ journalist‚ novelist‚ and essayist. A noted social reformer‚ Shaw wrote plays which dramatized social commentaries‚ and in 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. “The gramophone will one day be used for language teaching”‚ prophesied H.G.Wells. Shaw made a special recording on ‘Spoken English
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