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- Bohemia is a place in The Winter's Tale
- Cervantes full name-Miguel de Cenvantes
- Letter described in The Scarlet Letter-A
- In Scotish Folklore, The appearance of a BONSHEE means Death
- Comus is god of Relevery
- To Johnson BLANK VERSE is only Verse to Eyes
- NEW-HISTORICIM coined by Stephen Greenblatt
- Plutarch called poet :Right Popular Philosopher"
- Johnson founded Literary Club in 1764
- novel Tom Jones contains 18 books
- Spectator Paper was daily periodical
- poem The Bard is by Gray
- Kennings mean picturesque compounds used by Old Eng poets. They have metaphorical quality, ie SEOWOOD used for ship & PEACE WEAVER for Women
- Postcolonial writers revision history, & negotiate with & subvert Euro-American ideologies & representations
- *Poem "Sir Gawin and the Green Knight" by anonymous or "The Pearl Poet." Rhyme: ABABA: Stanzas:101. It begins in CAMELOT on New Year's Day.
- *Literary term SENSUOUSNESS related to John Milton
- *Raja Ram Mohan Rai(Brahma Samaj) is father of Indian Renaissance in English Literature.
- Gibbon's THE DECLINE AND FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE begins with The Reign of Trojan in AD-98 & ends with Fall of Bynanstine Empire in 1453
- Caxton starts Printing Press & Guttenburg gives Art of Printing.Today no Caxton Press but Guttenburg is working with name Guttenburg Project (Name are different. For more info check by self)
- The only instance of Comedy during Romantic Age is OEDIPUS TYRANNUS or SWELLFOOT THE TYRANT by Shelley.
- Full Title: "The Defence of Poesie, Political Discourses, Correspondence and Translation" by Philip Sidney
- Full Title: "The Countess of Pembroke's 'Arcadia': Volume 4: Being the Original Version" by Philip Sidney
- Wordsworth shows death of his two brothers Captain & Nelson with words "Character of the Happy Warrior" in poem "Immortaliy Ode."
- Francis Bacon's words are known as "Knowledge is power"
- World Drama Day is March 25
- VS Naipal wrote the Book "The Mask of Africa"
- "A Dramatic Poem in Humble Imitation of THE WINTER'S TALE of Shakespeare" is subtitle of poem ZAPOLYTA (1817) by Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Fable:short story esp about animals withMoral,ie,Fox&Grapes
- Epic:A long narrative poem of heroic event
- Epigram:A short saying full of wit
- In Memoriam contains 131 lyrics
- Phrase I' art por I's art (art for art's sake) was coined in year 1804
- The Swan was a theatre in Southwark, London, England, built in 1595. It was the fourth in the series of large public playhouses of London.
- Wordsworth,Coleridge,Southey are called Lake school by Francis (afterward Lord) Jeffrey in The Edinburgh Review, Aug 1817 or Lakers by Byron
- Full Title--Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing To the Parliament of England (1644) by Milton
- When Blake says that in Paradise Lost "Milton was at Devil's party without knowing it" The Romantic Age enters into the Criticism.
- On 21Jan, 1789 The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Boris Pasternak (1958)& Sartre (1964) are two writers who rejected Nobel Prize for Lit (Pasternak son received it in 1989 after his death)
- "To Connect" related to Foster
- Eliot influenced by Indian Philosophy
- The Novelist Esther David (English)has been chosen for Sahitya Academy Award 2010.
- Jnanpith Award is highest literary award in India. It carries Rs700000 & bronze replica of Saraswati goddess. Not include English Language
- Naquib Mah Fouz(1911-2006) was first Arabic Nobel Prize Winner for Lit 1987,Egypt
- Tony Morrison (1931)First African Black, 1993
- In 1688 Dryden refused to take oaths of allegiance so dismissed by William III & Mary II from post Poet laureate. Only Dismissed Laureate
- More's Utopia (1516)describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, was translated in 1551 by Robinson. (title) Title Translation
- A Truly Golden Little Book,No Less Beneficial Than Entertaining,of the Best State of a Republic,&of the New Island Utopia
- Totells Miscellany comes in 1557, one year before Elizabeth come to Throne
- Real name of Earl of Surrey is Henry Howard
The word sensuousness is related to John keats not Milton.
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