All About English Literature

Consider John Donne's "The Good Morrow" as a Metaphysical Love Poem

Metaphysics, as the term denotes, is a study of abstract concepts; while ‘meta’ means beyond and ‘physics’ means science of concrete th...

Destruction of Bastille The French Revolution, which broke out in 1789, had affected not merely the political and social destiny of ...

Bildungsroman novel originated from Germany. It is a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of it...

Ballad is an old English pattern of story meant for singing which is full of anecdotes conserve by memory and handed down orally. A bal...

Journalese is “the name of literary vice which consists in the use of silted language of journalism.” It is an informal, often pe...

“The Sun Rising” is a typical love poem by Donne, characterised by his usual vigour, sprightliness and freshness. This poem, like most ...

The most famous romantic poet John Keats, “the Chameleon Poet” is the expounder of the term “Negative Capability”. Writing to his br...

Classical Greek and Latin dramas were strict in form. The concept of the three unities, in relation to classical drama, derives from Ar...

William Shakespeare, possibly the greatest of all English dramatists is to be mentioned particularly as a literary icon in English. He...