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Quotations By Thomas Hardy
2017-03-08 14:28
THOMAS HARDY (1840 –1928) WAS AN ENGLISH NOVELIST AND POET.“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”~… Read More
2017-03-05 15:54
My Cocoon tightens — Colors tease (1099) Emily DickinsonFull TextMain Text Bangla Translation My Cocoon tightens — Colors tease —… Read More
Quotations By Percy Bysshe Shelley
2017-03-02 14:05
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, MAJOR ENGLISH ROMANTIC POET AND ONE OF THE GREATEST LYRIC POETS IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and compre… Read More
William Butler Yeats Quick Facts
2017-03-01 14:03
William Butler YeatsAn Irish poet and playwright, who stands amongst the foremost literary figures of the 20th century.ProfileFull Name: William Butler YeatsDate of Birth: June 13, 1865Place… Read More
Quotations By Nathaniel Hawthorne
2017-02-28 11:02
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) WAS AN AMERICAN SHORT STORY WRITER AND ROMANCE NOVELIST.“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, fill… Read More
2017-02-25 08:17
DefinitionLingua Franca is an auxiliary language, generally of a hybrid and partially developed nature, which is employed over an extensive area by people speaking different and mutually uni… Read More
2017-02-24 15:36
DefinitionPlagiarism is the act of presenting someone else’s creative work without due acknowledgement. Plagiarism could be committed either intentionally or unintentionally. Regard… Read More
Quotations By Edgar Allan Poe
2017-02-21 14:45
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809 –1849), AN AMERICAN SHORT STORY WRITER, EDITOR, AND LITERARY CRITIC.“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who sha… Read More
Quotations By Sylvia Plath
2017-02-19 10:18
SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963), 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN POET AND NOVELIST.“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and liste… Read More
Questions By Earnest Hemingway
2017-02-18 09:16
Earnest Hemingway (1899–1961), Nobel Prize-winning American author and journalist.“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forget… Read More
Quotations By Emily Dickinson
2017-02-14 09:56
Emily Dickinson (1830–1986), an American poet.“Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me –The Carriage held but just Ourselves –And Immortali… Read More
Quotations By W. H. Auden
2017-02-10 08:55
W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973), AN ENGLISH POET AND PLAYWRIGHT WHOSE STYLE AND TECHNICAL SKILL EXERTED MAJOR INFLUENCE IN THE 20TH CENTURY POETICS.“Lay your sleeping head, my love,Human on my… Read More
Quotations By Dylan Thomas
2017-02-09 12:19
DYLAN THOMAS (1914 –1953), 20TH CENTURY WELSH POET AND WRITER, NOTED FOR HIS MUSICAL VERSE AND BOHEMIAN LIFESTYLE.“Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and r… Read More
2017-02-08 11:35
TONI MORRISON (FEBRUARY 18, 1931) IS A LEADING AMERICAN NOVELIST, EDITOR, AND PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. SHE WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1993.“We mis… Read More
Circe
2017-02-07 15:20
Circe (also called Kirke), in Greek mythology is a minor goddess of magic, or sometimes, a sorceress or witch. Circe is the Latinized spelling of the original Greek Kirkê, which derive… Read More
2017-02-05 10:35
SAUL BELLOW (1915-2005), CANADIAN-BORN AMERICAN AUTHOR OF FICTION AND ESSAYS, AND THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE.“We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they ar… Read More
2017-02-03 05:18
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939), 2OTH CENTURY IRISH POET AND PLAYWRIGHT“Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”~ W.B. Yeats… Read More
Alexander Pope Quick Facts
2017-02-01 14:49
Alexander Pope, a prominent English poet and satirist of the 18th century.ProfileBirth Name: Alexander PopeDate of Birth: May 21, 1688Place of Birth: London, United KingdomZodiac Sign: Gemin… Read More
Stream Of Consciousness
2017-01-01 14:38
DefinitionStream of Consciousness (often called interior monologue) is an immensely intricate modernist technique of narration. Hence no precise or acceptable definition of the method prevai… Read More
Paradox
2016-12-01 15:33
DefinitionParadox is a statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory, but in fact is or may be true.EtymologyThe English term paradox was borrowed during the… Read More
Mock-epic
2016-11-01 15:59
DefinitionMock-epic (also called mock-heroic or heroi-comic) is a long narrative poem written in mock-heroic style, intended to be humorous. More specifically, mock-epic is a parody of the e… Read More
Hyperbole
2016-10-11 13:30
DefinitionHyperbole is a figure of speech through which a statement or assertion is made with an obvious exaggeration of fact. In other words, it is a way of expression that makes a person o… Read More
Allusion
2016-09-22 15:29
DefinitionAllusion, in literature, is a figure of speech, which refers to a brief implied or indirect reference to a person, event, thing, or to a part of another text. In other words, allus… Read More
Personification
2016-09-05 14:52
DefinitionPersonification is a frequently employed figure of speech in literature. With this device the human traits are attributed to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. More specifically… Read More
Character In Literature
2016-08-15 14:20
DefinitionA character refers to a fictional person portrayed by the author in a play, novel, short story, or poetry. Sometimes animals and objects are also adopted as characters, but they ar… Read More
2016-08-02 16:10
DefinitionWord formation process (also called morphological process) is a means by which new words are produced either by modification of existing words or by complete innovation, which in t… Read More
Theme In Literature
2016-07-28 15:19
DefinitionTheme refers to the general topic or subject, or the main idea in a literary work such as, a story, an essay, or a narrative. Some common examples of themes include: love, friendsh… Read More
D.H.  Lawrence Quick Facts
2016-07-11 15:22
D.H. Lawrence20th century English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and literary critic, best known for his 1928 infamous novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.ProfileBirth Name: David… Read More
2016-06-18 14:08
GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950), 20TH CENTURY BRITISH WRITER“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the… Read More
2016-06-09 09:53
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983), AN INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road thr… Read More
Tennessee Williams Quick Facts
2016-06-02 18:18
Tennessee WilliamsPulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, noted chiefly for his classic plays such as, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) and Sweet Bird of You… Read More
2016-05-20 18:33
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941), ENGLISH NOVELIST, ESSAYIST, PUBLISHER, AND CRITIC“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that… Read More
Virginia Woolf Quick Facts
2016-05-20 18:29
Virginia Woolf20th century English novelist, essayist, publisher, and criticProfileFull Name: Adeline Virginia WoolfBirth Name: Adeline Virginia StephenAKA: Virginia WoolfDate of Birth: 25 J… Read More
Percy Shelley Quick Facts
2016-05-10 16:58
Percy Bysshe ShelleyMajor English Romantic poet and one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature.ProfileFull Name: Percy Bysshe ShelleyAKA: P.B. ShelleyDate of Birth:… Read More
Thomas Hardy Quick Facts
2016-04-21 17:05
Thomas HardyEnglish novelist and poet of the naturalist movement.ProfileFull Name: Thomas HardyAKA: Thomas Masterson HardyDate of Birth: June 2, 1840Place of Birth: Higher Bockhampton, Dorse… Read More
2016-04-05 16:54
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888), ENGLISH POET AND CRITIC OF THE VICTORIAN ERA “The sea of faithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth's shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furl… Read More
2016-04-04 16:44
CHARLES DICKENS (1812 –1870), NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELIST AND CRITIC“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart… Read More
T.S. Eliot Quick Facts
2016-04-04 16:39
T.S. EliotAmerican born English poet, literary critic and playwright of the 20th century.ProfileFull Name: T.S. EliotBirth Name: Thomas Stearns EliotNickname: TomAKA: Thomas EliotDate of Bir… Read More
William Golding Quick Facts
2016-04-04 16:36
William Golding Influential 20th century English poet, novelist and playwright.ProfileFull Name: William Gerald GoldingAKA: Sir William Gerald GoldingPseudonym: NoneDate of Birth: 19 Se… Read More
John Donne Quick Facts
2016-04-04 16:34
John Donne17th century English poet, prose writer, and clergyman, considered the greatest of the metaphysical poets and one of the greatest writers of love poetry.Profile: Full Name: John Do… Read More
John Osborne Quick Facts
2016-04-04 16:32
John Osborne Leading 20th century English playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter.Full Name: John OsborneBirth Name: John James OsborneBirth: December 12, 1929Place of Birth:London, Englan… Read More
2016-04-04 16:31
Herman Melville19th century American novelist, poet and writer of short story, who is remembered mostly for his novel Moby Dick.Full Name: Herman MelvillePseudonyms: L.A.V.; Salvator R. Tarn… Read More
Ernest Hemingway Quick Facts
2016-04-04 16:20
Ernest HemingwayNobel Prize winning 20th century American novelist and notable journalist.ProfileName: Ernest HemingwayBirth Name: Ernest Miller HemingwayAKA: Ernest M. HemingwayNickname: Pa… Read More
Eugene O'Neill Quick Facts
2016-03-01 15:48
Eugene O'NeillForemost American playwright and Nobel laureate in LiteratureProfileFull Name: Eugene Gladstone O'NeillAKA: Gene, Eugene O'NeillDate of Birth: October 16, 1888Place of Birth: N… Read More
2016-02-14 14:21
EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953), AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTThere is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.~ Eugene O’Neill, A Moon for the MisbegottenMan is born… Read More
Robert Frost Quick Facts
2016-02-01 16:00
Robert FrostLeading 20th century American poet.Full Name: Robert FrostBirth Name: Robert Lee FrostBirth: March 26, 1874Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USADeath: January 29, 1963Pl… Read More
2016-01-27 14:42
SEAMUS HEANEY (1939 –2013), IRISH POETThe cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slapOf soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edgeThrough living roots awaken in my head.But I’ve n… Read More
The Graces
2015-10-03 14:37
In Roman mythology the Graces (Plural of Grace) are the trio of minor deities representing joy, charm, and beauty. Originally, however, the Graces were simply considered as the goddesses of… Read More
The Fates
2015-09-06 14:34
The Fates are the three mythological deities who determined human life and destiny. The Fates are known as Moirai. (plural of Moira) in Greek and Parcae (plural of Parca) or Fata (plural of… Read More
2015-05-11 14:39
DefinitionThe Grammar Translation Method (also known as the classical method, the traditional method, the prussian method), is a method of foreign language teaching in which the primary focu… Read More
The Maturation Theory
2015-01-02 09:14
IntroductionThe Chomskyan innateness proposal opened a strong ground for explaining language acquisition in terms of genetics. But it was not until the publication of Lenneberg’s Biolo… Read More
2014-11-03 15:58
PreambleChaucer has been lavishly eulogized to be the greatest social chronicler of the 14th century England. His acknowledged magnum opus The Canterbury Tales mirrored an all-embracing port… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
John Keats was a major poet from the English Romantic movement.ProfileFull Name: John KeatsPseudonym: NoneDate of Birth: 31 October 1795Place of Birth: Moorgate, London , EnglandBaptism: St… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Jane Austen was an English novelist from the Georgian Era.ProfileFull Name: Jane AustenPseudonym: "By A Lady", "The Author of 'Sense and Sensibility'"Date of Birth: December 16, 1775Place of… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Charles Dickens was an influential English author and critic from the Victorian period. ProfileFull Name: Charles John Huffam DickensPseudonym: BozDate of Birth: 7 February 1812Place of Birt… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In Greek mythology Selene (also called Mene) is the Titan goddess of the moon. Her Roman counterpart is Luna. Pursuant to prevalent accounts, she is the daughter of Hyperion and Theia and a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American author of fiction and essays, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, who is widely regarded by many as one of the major representatives of the J… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
DefinitionDiglossia, (also called linguistic duality) is a language situation in which two different varieties of the same language are used in different social contexts or for performing… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
WHITMAN, WALT (1819-1892), American poet“To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.”~Walt Whitman“I… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
DefinitionThe meaning of each word in a language is formed of a set of  abstract characteristics known as semantic features (also known as Semantic Properties, Sense Components, Sema… Read More

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