As a poet of the supernatural Walter de la Mare emerges as a worthy disciple of Coleridge. Like Coleridge he avoids crude methods of treating the supernatural and presents it as a psychic phenomenon. We do not find in him the blood-curdling descriptions of ghosts and ghouls, skulls and skeletons. His treatment is su…

Khushwant Singh is a master craftsman in Art of Characterization . He designs his plots and characters with ingenuity and co-relates the two judiciously. It is difficult to say whether plot is more important or the characters in a novel. Aristotle has said that characters are subservient to plot, but with the lapse o…

Plot Construction in Train To Pakistan Novel writing is an art, requiring knowledge of life-style of the people of the age with which the story is related, imagination to create episodes and to link them with one another, to arrange them in a series having a beginning, a middle and an end. The story of a novel may b…

Edgar Allan Poe Biography Edgar Allan Poe Facts Born in Boston, USA, Edgar Allan Poe occupies a distinct place as a renowned American Short Story Writer, Poet, Critic, Book Reviewer and an Editor. Edgar Allan Poe was born as the son of the English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr., an actor fro…

The theme of Death loomed large almost one third of the bulk of Emily Dickinson poems . Throughout her life she was preoccupied with death . To her death is the supreme touchstone for life. Investigation of the theme of death gave her a panoramic view of vital issues such as religion, God, nature, love and immortali…