Wednesday, 17 February 2021

5 POINTS ON THE ENGLISH WRITERS

1.    Lamb is known as, “the prince of English Essayists”

2.    Lamb wrote, ”For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die”?

3.    Lamb wrote the Essay On the character and Genius of Hogarth

4.    Evelyn Waugh called Heywood “a sort of prose Shakespeare”

5.    “without contraries there is no progression” appears in Blake.


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