A Divine Image - William Blake
Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.
The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.
Who doesn’t know Shakespeare, may be only those who don’t know how to be charmed by literature. William Shakespeare’s [1564-1616] life is related with superlatives and his works are master-piece in English literature. He wrote about 38 plays with each play resembling like a bright star in the skies of literature and language. He was […]
John Donne (Pronounced as “Dun”) was an English poet of scholarly imagination and theological authenticity .He was a contemporary of Marlow and Shakespeare who joint him in the spirit and the supremacy of the revival era. It is hard to find another poet of Donne’s caliber so far versatility and scholarly inventiveness in English poetry […]
William Wordsworth was one of the leading figures of the Romanticism movement and friends with another influential English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Xanadu. The two then went on to collaborate and came up with one of the best known works of the period, Lyrical Ballads, which […]
If someone could give to the wealth of a language in as short a period as twenty-six years, the English romantic poet, John Keats did so perfectly! Born on the 31st of October 1795, Keats became one of the major weapons of the English Romantic Movement. Throughout the period that he wrote, other poets continued […]
Pope in an immeasurable respect is an exceptional personality. In the first place, he was for a generation “the poet†of a great nation. There is not a single point to doubt that poetry was very limited in early eighteen century; there were very few lyrics, little or no love poetry, no epics, no dramas […]
Keats: A brief Biographical sketch
One of the famous and great Romantic poet, John Keats Born in Moorfields, London on October 31, 1795. He was the eldest son of the five children of a stable keeper. He lost his parents in childhood, lost his father by a riding accident in 1804 and his mother in 1810. […]
