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…
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements. The term is…
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…
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) Around 1713, Pope alongwith Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot and Thomas Parnell founded a literary club called the Scriblerus Club to…
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) He was born in Milson, Wiltshire in 1672 He became popular in literary and political circles, and became a subject of jealousy…