English Literature

Link http://neoenglishsystem.blogspot.in/2010/12/precursors-of-romantic-revival-or.html http://www.angelfire.com/nm/nighttime/poetry/transitional.html Introduction: The eighteenth century is usually known as the century of "prose and reason," the age in which neoclassicism reigned supreme and in which all romantic tendencies lay dormant, if not extinct. But that is a verdict too sweeping

Theory of poetry �Poetry is the thought and the words in which emotion spontaneously embodies itself.� Thoughts on Poetry and its Variations by Mill. Wordsworth took the hint and produced the theory of poetry which is contained in Preface to Lyrical Ballads wherein, at least two places; he points out: �All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling,� and �It

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