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Introduction- Imagine losing a fellow artist whose brilliance you deeply admired—someone cut down in the prime of life. This is the heartbreak that drove Percy Bysshe Shelley to write “Adonais” in 1821, one of the most beautiful elegies in English literature. This 495-line poem mourns John Keats, who died at just 25 from tuberculosis. Shelley, […]
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Introduction- William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter, engraver, and visionary who saw the world differently from most. Born in London to a working-class family with nonconformist religious beliefs, Blake showed remarkable artistic talent from an early age. At fourteen, he became an engraver’s apprentice, later studying at the Royal Academy. During his lifetime,
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Introduction- Welcome to an exploration of two forces that have shaped English drama for centuries: tragedy and comedy. These aren’t just theatrical categories—they’re mirrors held up to human nature itself. Tragedy shows us noble characters brought low by their own flaws or the cruelty of fate, making us feel both pity and fear. Comedy, meanwhile,
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Introduction- Imagine taking the most famous seducer in literature and turning him completely upside down. That’s exactly what Lord Byron did in 1819 when he published “Don Juan – Canto I.” Instead of the cunning, predatory Don Juan we know from Spanish legends, Byron gives us a sixteen-year-old boy who’s more seduced than seducer—a naive
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Introduction- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, and social reformer. He wrote over 60 plays and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. Shaw was known for his wit, sharp social criticism, and belief in social reform. He was also a member of the Fabian Society, which worked for gradual social
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Introduction- “Kubla Khan,” subtitled “Or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment,” stands among Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s most mysterious and celebrated works. Written in 1797 and published in 1816, this Romantic masterpiece emerged from what Coleridge described as an opium-induced dream vision of Xanadu, the legendary pleasure palace of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. The
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Introduction- Imagine being in a story where you are not just watching a character’s actions but are also in the middle of their chaotic and vivid thoughts, memories, and short-lived experiences. This sums up the main idea behind stream of consciousness, a new way of telling stories that was popular in modernist literature in the
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Introduction- William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood“, published in 1807, is a key work of Romantic poetry. It looks at how we lose our childhood’s natural connection to the divine and how memory lasts. People often call it the “Immortality Ode.”. It thinks about how people go from being innocent
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Introduction- The short story is a concise form of prose fiction, typically shorter than a novel, focusing on a single incident or series of linked events, with a self-contained plot that builds to a moment of revelation or crisis. It often features limited characters and settings, emphasizing the economy of language and implication over explicit
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Introduction- John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” was published in 1819 and is renowned for its contemplation of beauty, art, and the conflict between permanence and transience. One of Keats’s five great odes, the poem examines an ancient Greek urn decorated with timeless scenes of human life. Keats explores the nature of art as
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