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Elizabethan Drama
September 19, 2026
Drama was the chief literary glory of the Elizabethan age. In the beginning, these dramas were not so well- written, though the comedies were better than the tragedies. Ralph Roister Doister is taken as the...
Elizabethan Poetry
September 19, 2026
Elizabethan age was a great age of English literature. During this time the writing of poetry was the part of education among the educated people. That is why many books of poetry by different writers...
Middle English Period
September 19, 2026
The Middle English was spoken in England from about 100 A.D. to about 1500 A.D. It was much easier than the old English. Poetry The greatest poet of this period was Geoffrey Chaucer, often called...
Old English | Anglo Saxon Period
September 19, 2026
The Old English Language also known as Anglo Saxon was the earliest form of English. It was spoken from about 600 A.D. to 1100 A.D. Special studies is needed to read Old English since is...
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray | Summary and Analysis
September 5, 2026
Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is composed in quatrains, where the first line rhymes with the third, and the second with the fourth. Elegiac poetry is mostly written in abab form. The last...
The Grandmother by Ray Young Bear | Summary and Analysis
August 30, 2026
In the poem The Grandmother, the American-Indian poet, Ray Young Bear, draws a picture of his grandmother, all-loving, all-inspiring. His grandmother would wear a purple scarf round her head for warmth and she would go...
Ray Young Bear | Biography
August 30, 2026
Ray Young Bear (born in 1950) is an American and Indian poet and novelist. He was born and raised on the Tama Indian Reservation in Iowa, in the Mesquaki tribe, where his grandmother instructed him...
Remember by Christina Georgina Rossetti | Summary and Analysis
August 30, 2026
Remember by Rossetti is a classic Victorian poem written in 1849 and published in 1862 in her first volume, ‘Goblin Market and Other Poems’. It is a Petrarchan sonnet with abba abba cdc cdc rhyming...
When I am Dead my Dearest by Christina Georgina Rossetti | Summary and Analysis
August 30, 2026
The first stanza of the poem describes the world of the living people. The poet addresses her dearest one and asks him not to sing sad songs for her when she is dead. She does...
Christina Georgina Rossetti | Biography
August 30, 2026
Christina Georgina Rossetti is of Italian origin. Rossetti was one of the most important nineteenth century English women poets. She was born in London on December 5, 1830. Rossetti was entirely educated at home and...
