Chaucer's Art of Characterization in the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales   Chaucer is the first great painter of character because he is the first great observer of it among English writers. In fact, next…

 Plot and Characterization THE MYSTERY OF THE CREATIVE PROCESSES. The processes of creation are confessedly as mysterious to those who possess such creative power as they are to other people. Thackeray spoke of this power…

 Characteristics of the Romantic Age   Experimentation with Poetic Form When we read the Romantics now, they seem old-fashioned. They say things like,  "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, That is all ye know on earth,…

Renaissance   Renaissance was a period of transition in European history from the dark middle ages to one of enlightenment and modernity. The names Renaissance and Humanism are often applied to the same movement. The…

University Wits   The term University wits refers to a group of late 16th-century English writers who were educated at the universities i.e. Oxford or Cambridge University. They were popular secular writers of that time. The…

The Way It Was And Is  (MCQs) By Bill Cosby “The Way It Was and Is” is an essay by Bill Cosby, in which he reflects on the changes in social values, family dynamics, and…

Hamlet’s 4th soliloquy   To be, or not to be? That is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a…