English Literature

An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by George Berkeley (Not complete) 1. My design is to show the manner wherein we perceive by sight the distance, magnitude, and situation of OBJECTS. Also to consider the difference there is betwixt the IDEAS of sight and touch, and whether there be any IDEA common to both senses. 2. It is, I think, agreed by all that DISTANCE, of itself and

Link: http://somusagar.blogspot.in/2010/03/gullivers-travels.html Gulliver�s Travels Gulliver�s Travels recounts the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a practical-minded Englishman trained as a surgeon who takes to the seas when his business fails. In a deadpan first-person narrative that rarely shows any signs of self-reflection or deep emotional response, Gulliver narrates the adventures that

Source: http://somusagar.blogspot.in/2010/03/eroticism-of-john-keats.html EROTICISM OF JOHN KEATS Keats often associated love and pain both in his life and in his poetry. He wrote of a young woman he found attractive, "When she comes into a room she makes an impression the same as the Beauty of a Leopardess.... I should like her to ruin me..."(Letter-94) 1 Love and death are intertwined

Source copied from: http://www.online-literature.com/henry-augustin-beers/from-chaucer-to-tennyson/5/ For Original Visit the above line From the Restoration to the Death of Pope 1660-1744 The Stuart Restoration was a period of descent from poetry to prose, from passion and imagination to wit and the understanding. The serious, exalted mood of the civil war and Commonwealth had spent itself

Source: http://www.trbforenglish.blogspot.in/2014/10/journalism-and-essay-18th-century.html JOURNALISM AND THE ESSAY (18th Century) The essay (meaning, according to Montaigne, 'an attempt') originated as a repository of casual ideas on men and matters. To Montaigne it was more a means of thinking aloud, than a literary type. In England it was cultivated by Bacon and the humanists. But as