About the Poem It was the English Lord Byron who composed this short and well-known lyric (poem) which was first published in the year 1815. It is an outstanding instance of Romanticism. It is said that a remarkable event in the life of Byron inspired this poem; he attended a party on 11th June 1814 …
About the poem Shakespeare The poem Shakespeare is Matthew Arnold’s one of the most popular, read, as well as anthologized sonnets that were written in the 1840s as well and published in 1849 when the poet was just in his 20s. As everyone, who is familiar with (English) literature, knows quite well that Mr. William …
It was the famous Romantic poet John Keats who composed the popular poem Ode to a Nightingale which is the longest ode among his other odes such as Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on Indolence, Ode on Melancholy, and Ode to Psyche. Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale in the spring of 1819 (at …
About the Poem Anthem for the Doomed Youth The famous English war poet Wilfred Owen wrote the poem/sonnet Anthem for Doomed Youth in 1917 when he was in the hospital and recovering from injuries as well as trauma resulting from his military service during Ist World War This sonnet is a lamentation on the death …
About Ozymandias It was P. B. Shelley who wrote the sonnet Ozymandias Actually, the Romantic poet composed this poem in the year 1817 as a part of a poetry contest with a friend. But, the sonnet was first published in 1818 in The Examiner of London under the poet’s pen name Glirastes As far as …
About the poem Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan is regarded as one of the greatest poems According to Coleridge, it is a strange as well as a hallucinatory poem; he composed it shortly after waking up from an opium-influenced dream in the year of 1797 As far as the first part of this …
About the poem Hawk Roosting It was Ted Hughes, one of the most prominent poets of 20th Century poets, who wrote the poem Hawk Roosting It was published in his second collection of poetry called Lupercall (1960) Here, in Hawk Roosting a hawk is provided the power of speech as well as thought; it allows …
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About the poem The Solitary Reaper The Solitary Reaper is a popular lyric poem written by William Wordsworth who was the pioneer of English Poetry This poem was originally composed on 5th November 1805 and first published in the year 1807 In fact, William Wordsworth’s trip to Scotland in 1803 with his sister Dorothy inspired …
The last of the Victorian, Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) was one of the most well-known and popular novelists of England. ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’, ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’, and ‘Jude the Obscure’ are some of his famous novels among many others. As far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is …
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O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ …
