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December 18, 2017

Quotations by Gerard Manley Hopkins

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, VICTORIAN POET, WHOSE POETRY REVOLVES AROUND RELIGION, NATURE, AND MELANCHOLY. “The best ideal is the true And other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to The holy Three in One.” ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, Summa “All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to...

December 4, 2017

Rudyard Kipling Quick Facts

Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, novelist and story writer of the late Victorian period. Profile Birth Name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling Date of Birth: December 30, 1865 Place of Birth: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India Zodiac Sign: Capricorn Death: January 18, 1936 Place of Death: Middlesex...

November 9, 2017

Quotations by George Gordon Byron

George Gordon Byron, (1788 –1824), was a major English poet and one of the influential representatives of the Romantic Movement. “She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes...” ~ George Gordon...

November 1, 2017

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as a Modern Poem

Modernism is a movement in literature that lasted from roughly the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. The era marked landmark progress in science and technology, industrialization and globalization. Although these are all indicatives of modernism, the modernist writers, however,...

October 30, 2017

Quotations by Emily Brontë

EMILY JANE BRONTË WAS AN ENGLISH NOVELIST AND POET WHOSE REPUTATION CHIEFLY RESTS UPON HER ONLY NOVEL, WUTHERING HEIGHTS. “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But, if you be ashamed of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.” ~ Emily Brontë, Wuthering...

October 9, 2017

Quotations by D.H. Lawrence

D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930) WAS AN INFLUENTIAL ENGLISH NOVELIST, ESSAYIST, POET, AND CRITIC OF THE 20TH CENTURY. “Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.” ~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover “I never saw a wild thing sorry...

October 4, 2017

Quotations by Kingsley Amis

KINGSLEY AMIS (1922-1995), AN ENGLISH NOVELIST, POET, CRITIC, AND TEACHER. “A man's sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature that is the opposite of these; to demonstrate to an animal which is...

September 28, 2017

Quotations by Philip Larkin

PHILIP LARKIN (1922–1985) WAS A RENOWNED POET AND NOVELIST IN POSTWAR ENGLAND. “So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: - Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.” ~ Philip Larkin, Why Did I Dream of You Last...

September 21, 2017

Quotations by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) IS ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ENGLISH POETS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) “Love me sweet With...

September 17, 2017

Quotations by Herman Melville

HERMAN MELVILLE, A 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELIST, POET AND WRITER OF SHORT STORY, WHO IS REMEMBERED MOSTLY FOR HIS NOVEL MOBY-DICK. “Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.” ~...

September 9, 2017

Quotations by O. Henry

O. HENRY, THE PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER (1862 –1910), WAS A PROMINENT AMERICAN SHORT STORY WRITER, BEST KNOWN FOR HIS IRONIC PLOT TWISTS AND SURPRISE ENDINGS. “To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.” ~ O. Henry, A Retrieved Reformation “If men...

August 30, 2017

Quotations by William Blake

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827), ENGLISH ENGRAVER, ARTIST, MYSTIC AND A SEMINAL POETIC FIGURE OF THE 19TH CENTURY ROMANTIC MOVEMENT. “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” ~ William Blake, The Tyger “To see a World in...

August 19, 2017

Quotations by John Keats

JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) WAS A MAJOR ENGLISH POET OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” ~ John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;” ~...

August 3, 2017

Quotations by Jane Austen

JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817) IS A LEADING 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELIST. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” ~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love,...

July 29, 2017

Quotations by Robert Herrick

ROBERT HERRICK (1591–1674) WAS A 17TH-CENTURY ENGLISH CAVALIER POET, WHOSE WORK IS NOTED FOR ITS DIVERSITY OF FORM AND FOR ITS STYLE, MELODY, AND FEELING. “Here we are all, by day; by night, we're hurled By dreams, each one, into a several world.” ~ Robert Herrick, Dreams “A sweet disorder...