TWENTY IMPORTANT POINTS ON THE LITERARY WORKS

Joseph Conrad’s novels are generally set in the background of THE SEA

 The Novel VANITY FAIR by William Make peace Thackeray is called a ‘NOVEL WITHOUT A HERO””

MORTE de Arthur is the earliest prose-romance in English.

Thomas More got the inspiration from Plato’s REPUBLIC for writing his UTOPIA.

Thomas More’s Utopia was first written in Latin in 1516. In 1551 it was rendered into English.

Thomas De Quincey divided literature into two broad divisions namely –Literature of power and Literature of Knowledge.

Robert Greene called Shakespeare “”an upstart crow beautified with our feathers.””

Dryden has written a play on a Mughal Emperor AURANG-ZEBE

Dryden’s THE WIFE OF BATH HER TALE is a fable

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Words worth wrote a sonnet on MILTON.

Byron calls The Giaour as his TALES A FRAGMENT OF A TURKISH TALE.

Coleridge called Lamb a “”Gentle hearted CHARLES””

Tennyson has written a poem on the Tomb of a Mughal Emperor AKBAR.

Tennyson has written a poem on the city of LUCKNOW in India

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The Story of SORAB AND RUSTUM is taken from Firdausi.

W.B.YEATS WAS a Anglo-Irish poet.  He has written a poem THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE.   Innisfree is situated in Lough Gill.

Eliot’s THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK is a play, not a critical treatise.

THE ITALIAN is a great novel written by Ann Radcliffe.

GLOBE THEATER was built in the year 1599

THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN is the work of Modern Age Author C. Day Lewis. (1904-1972).