A piece of literature will be acknowledged with acceptation into a literary canon. ... As with any topic in literature, there are negatives to canons. Sometimes when a piece of literature is placed in a certain cannon, there is an immediate interpretation based on the canon it is in rather than on the kind text within the literature itself. ... Similar to how a Canon can mold the interpretation of pieces of literature, pieces of literature can mold the form of a Canon. ... If not that, they contain a moral lesson that guides the reader into understanding what things one should avoid to prevent...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By that time English literature had "stumbled", as it were, just marking time and making no headway, so to speak. ... These people were to reform the literature of their time and to shape modern language, literary styles, poetic diction and verse. ... In 1906 he was admitted to Harvard University, where he studied philosophy and European literature, mainly of the Renaissance period. ... Babbitt conveyed the ideas of anti-Romantic attitude to literature into young Eliot's mind. ... Eliot's study of the poetry of Dante, of the English writers John Webster and John Donne, and of the Fre...

• Word Count: 1915
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Pope speaks of how the sylphs in the game of Ombre sit on Belinda's cards, guiding their mistress but still concerned with rank and hierarchy. ... In fact all satire is largely descended from the classical Greek and Roman literatures, something which one must find fascinating, given the particular nature of Pope's "The Rape of the Lock". ... In classical heroic literature the gods were intimately involved in the fate of heroes, something which Pope has carried off to great effect. ...

• Word Count: 2068
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