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In the firmament of Romantic literature, both Wordsworth and Shelley are two dazzling luminaries. Both their Skylark poems deal with a common theme, namely the skylark, a sweet song-bird of England. Though both the poem treats the same theme, their approach is different. Wordsworth wrote his poem as a rejoinder a…

“I find earth not grey but rosy/Heaven not grim but fair of hue.” Robert Browning, a cherished poet of the Victorian era, has many of his poems filled with unbridled optimism. He is “ an uncompromising foe of scientific materialism ” as  Hudson  states Victorian age is a watershed age in English litera…

Use of word with humorous or satirical intention, as a result of which the meaning is the exact opposite of what actually said, is called irony. According to Prof. Chevalier, “the basic feature of every irony is a contrast between a reality and an appearance.” Irony is Jane Austen’s forte, it is very soul of he…