Hubris Hubris, or less frequently hybris, describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with arrogance. The term…
Euphuism Euphuism is a peculiar mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a…
Frame Narrative A frame story is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or…
Prose Romances Precursors of the chivalric romance of the Middle Ages and the Gothic novels of the later 18th Century. Heroic or Evil characters, solitary…
Fiction Latin “fictio” means to form or act of making or moulding. Fiction is any literary narrative, whether in prose or verse. I.A Richardson has…
Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in New England. A core belief is in the inherent goodness of…
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English critic, poet and essayist. Popular more as a critic than a poet. Works: Culture and Anarchy (1869) The Scholar Gipsy (1853)…
James Thomson (1700-1748) Scottish Poet, Ednam, Roxburgh, Scotland Went to London in 1725 and started his career as a tutor. Talbot was his patron who…
John Gay (1685-1732) Born in the 18th Century London. Poet and ballad lyric writer. Works: Wine: A parody Mahawks: His first play. The Wife of…
Edward Young (1683-1765) Was born in the Winchister Works: First publication: Epistle to … Lord Lansdoune (1713) Poem on the Last day (1713) (dedicated…