A companion to short literary essays / Krishna Kant Singh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, Krishna Kant, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature.

Indic literature (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jaipur, India : Aadi Publications, 2013.

Summary:

The book deals with some of the important trends, issues, authors and works of English literature and Indian writing in English in the form of short literary essays. Right from the Elizabethan age to the modern age, there are many influencing topics which initiated literary revolution in different ages and the book rightly covers all related topics with the help of proper textual extracts, quotations of the critics and valuable remarks of the literary historians.

Contents:

Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Everyman as an Allegory; 2. Dramatic Quality in Everyman; 3. Thomas More's Utopia: A Unique Piece of Prose; 4. Longinus: Theory of Sublimity; 5. Tragic Conflict in Dr. Faustus; 6. Marlowe's Edward II as a Historical Tragedy; 7. Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Grim Tragedy of Ambition; 8. William Shakespeare's Macbeth as a Tragedy; 9. Hamlet and His Problems; 10. Comic Relief in Hamlet; 11. Importance of Supernatural in Hamlet; 12. The Tempest: The Theme of Colonialism; 13. Sidney as a Sonneteer

14. 'Come Sleep O Sleep': A Critical Appreciation15. 'Loving in Truth': A Critical Appreciation; 16. Ben Jonson's The Alchemist as a Comedy of Humours; 17. Milton's Lycidas; 18. Milton's Grand Style in Lycidas; 19. John Donne's 'Goe, and Catche a Falling Starre'; 20. John Donne's 'Death Be Not Proud'; 21. John Donne's 'The Sunne Rising'; 22. Herbert as a Metaphysical Poet; 23. Herbert as a Religious Poet; 24. John Dryden's Plea for Dramatic Poetry; 25. Dr. Johnson's Liberal Classicism; 26. Dr. Johnson's 'Preface to Shakespeare'

27. William Congreve's The Way of the World as A Comedy of Manners28. Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock; 29. The Role of Supernatural in The Rape of the Lock; 30. Realism in Defoe's Moll Flanders; 31. William Wordsworth's Nature of Poetry; 32. Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction; 33. 'Dejection: An Ode': A Critical Appreciation; 34. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Coleridge's Theme of Morality; 35. Treatment of Supernatural in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; 36. Symbolical and Allegorical Implication in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; 37. S.T. Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan'

38. Shelley as a Poet of Nature39. Shelley as a Lyric Poet; 40. Platonism in Shelley's Poetry; 41. Adonais as a Pastoral Elegy; 42. John Keats as a Sensuousness Poet; 43. John Keats as an Ode Writer; 44. Development of Thoughts in 'Ode to the Nightingale'; 45. Jane Austen as a Novelist; 46. Walter Scott as a Historical Novelist; 47. The Heart of Midlothian: A Novel of Human Justice; 48. Browning's Vision of Life or Optimism; 49. Browning's Obscurity; 50. Characteristics of Browining's Dramatic Monologues; 51. Matthew Arnold as an Elegiac Poet; 52. Matthew Arnold's 'The Scholar Gipsy'

53. Matthew Arnold's 'Requiescat' - A Critical Appreciation54. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement; 55. Rossetti as a Pictorial Artist; 56. The Blessed Damozel: A Critical Appreciation; 57. Hopkins as a Religious Poet; 58. Hopkins's Obscurity and Sprung Rhythm; 59. 'Felix Randal': A Critical Appreciation; 60. 'Carrion Comfort': A Critical Appreciation; 61. 'Pied Beauty': A Critical Appreciation; 62. 'Byzantium': A Critical Appreciation; 63. 'No Second Troy': A Critical Appreciation; 64. T.S. Eliot's 'Three Voices of Poetry'; 65. T.S. Eliot's 'What is Classic'; 66. T.S. Eliot as a Poet

67. Tiresias: the Protagonist of The Waste Land

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 14, 2016).

ISBN:

93-85484-37-0