“The Hairy Ape” as a Modern Tragedy

The representation of tragedy today has adapted itself to more humanistic, base and symbolic concerns. Often, they are commentaries on society just as much as they are on the nature of man. Eugene O'Neill's greatest creation The Hairy Ape dramatises the vision of the tragic and alienated condition...

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Quotations by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William (15-1965), 16th century English playwright and poet Assume a virtue, if you have it not. William Shakespeare Be great in act, as you have been in thought. William Shakespeare Action is eloquence. William Shakespeare And since you know you cannot see yourself, so...

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Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism is a 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of man, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience...

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Introduction First published in the collection The Rose in 1893,"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is an example of Yeats's earlier lyric poems. As an adult, Yeats often yearned for the quiet life in his native place Sligo, where he spent many boyhood days at Innisfree island on the lake Lough Gill. His...

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