He left fiction writing for poetry, and published eight books of poetry, including Wessex Poems. In his poetry Hardy captures human loss and sorrow. Hardy's poetry usually explores the negative outlook of fate against. He rejected the belief in God, and much of his poetry reads on the helplessness of a character against uncontrollable forces. ...
The English novel which was destined to live, in fact out live all other forms of literature, whether poetry or drama, and shine even today on the horizon of English literature as a bright star, actually rose and greatly developed in the 18th century. ... They not only needed education but also being unable to comprehend the classical poetry of Pope and Dryden that was envogue, demanded a simpler medium to cater to their needs and to their tastes. ... This indeed was quite a contrast from the poetry being written at that time. ...
Young adult readers often overlook poetry and view it as dated and monotonous. Ellen Hopkins is a contemporary novelist who has found a way to intrigue the minds of young adults using poetry in her numerous verse novels. ... The ability to incorporate poetry to young adult novels while bringing awareness to such intense and often over looked struggles is a skill that she has perfected. ...
Stephen Crane was fascinated by both mental and physical violence. Crane envied wounded soldiers, thus he wrote the novel The Red Badge of Courage. Crane enjoyed writing for newspapers. Crane never participated nor witnessed a war. Stephen Crane was born after the finale of the United States Civil ...
Written in 1931, The Waves 's unique structure and delivery establishes its place in history as a memorable piece of literature. Written by Virginia Woolf, the book echoes her poetic style of writing, standing as one of her most revered works. Throughout the novel, Woolf steps away from tradit...
Faulkner initially started out in literature with poetry. ... Hamblin, "Not only did Phil Stone attempt to purchase many of the little magazines and obscure volumes of "modern" poetry" that were appearing in the teens and early twenties, but he was also able to readily make available to Faulkner the resources of the Stone family library. " Faulkner gained his humorous writings from popular authors such as Mark Twain. ...
Plot- The plot took place in New York where Esther and twelve other women who won a prize to live in New York for fashion. She soon realize that fashion isn't her thing. Esther is from a small town in Boston where she lives with her mother, (her father died when she was young) Her Family is very po...
Lost Identities In the novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez brings to mind an important topic in regards to all adolescents, worldwide, and that is a sense of identity. Teenagers, regardless of what culture or era they grow up in, always struggle to know who they are. The Ga...
On March 20th, 1907, Hugh MacLennan was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Hugh was an only child and his loving parents, Dr. Samuel MacLennan and Katherine MacQuarrie, pushed Hugh very hard during the young ages of his life to do well in school. His parents urged him to specially pursue classical s...
Within lyric poetry, drama, and fiction, the greatest works are selected on aesthetic aesthetic grounds; other books are picked for their reputation or intellectual eminence together with aesthetic value of a rather narrow kind: styles, composition, general force of presentation are the usual characteristics singled out. ...
Interpretation of a fictitious story depends upon the reader. Fiction can be subjective and evocative. It is "made up," and indirect in its communication. A work of fiction may evoke the emotions of the reader with the thrill of imagining impossible or unavailable experiences or the intrigue with p...
Known as one of the most controversial American writers, James Baldwin has been known to speak out on racism and civil rights throughout the 1950s. He is recognized as one of the finest writers in post World War II Literature. Although he spent most of his life in France, his works became very we...
"Tess of the D"Ubervilles" is a classic tragedy by Thomas Hardy. This novel is about Tess Durbeyfield, a simple country girl who is used by Alec D"Uberville, a wealthy gentleman as a victim of lamentable purpose, and later finds love with Angel Clare who marries her but abandons her on their wedding...
Warm Bodies is a post-apocalyptic fiction and paranormal romance novel, written by Isaac Marion. The novel incorporates various aspects of black humour within the futuristic setting, which thematically sets the presentiment of the novel. Isaac Marion's debut novel is narrated by 'R', a youn...
When the essay "Why the Novel Matters" is approached as rhetorical systems rather than statements of doctrine, it is, I think, significant as critical conceptions of the novel as those of a writer defining his genre in his own terms - dialogically, rhetorically, and artistically, as a novelist would...
Keywords: setting atmosphere mood symbol character coincidences Abstract: Modern critics consider Hardy a great writer and they consider The Mayor of Casterbridge one of Hardy's two great novels. Of all the Wessex's novels, however, this is the least typical. Although it makes much less use...
The Lord Of the Flies The classic novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an exciting adventure deep into the nether regions of the mind. The part of the brain that is suppressed by the mundane tasks of modern society. It is a struggle between Ralph and Jack, the boys and the Beast, good a...
James Baldwin is considered one of the most important African American writer of novels, poetry, short stories and essays, as well as a civil right activist. He was born in New York City's Harlem in 1924 (Smith 235). Due to his mother's inaccessibility and his stepfather's stern and remote manner, B...
Louis L"Amour was born on March 22, 1908, in Jamestown, North Dakota. His father, Louis Charles, was a veterinarian and farm machinery salesman and was also involved in local politics. Charles served as alderman of Jamestown's largest ward for many years as well as deputy sheriff, but he lost his ...
Aphra Behn is a complicated figure within English theatrical history. As the first woman in England to classify herself as a professional writer and playwright, she wrote to support herself and to prove a point during a time when women were deemed subordinate to men. She was a commoner among royals...
Lawrence is a writer who excites great passions - which is entirely appropriate, since that is how he wrote. He is the first really great writer to come from the (more or less) working class, and much of his work deals with issues of class, as well as other fundamentals such as the relationships between men, women, and the natural world. At times he becomes mystic and visionary, and his prose style can be poetic, didactic, symbolic, and bombastic all within the space of a few pages. He also deals with issues of sexuality and politics in a manner which is often controversial. The Rainbow is ...
In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...
Have you ever read a something that was so easy to read but hard to talk about? In The Bachelors (1960) and A Far Cry From Kensington (1988), Muriel Spark presents her characters in a troubling condition. They have problems in their life such as being threatened for not paying their taxes or being ...
