The most well-known female writer in the history of English literature. She was born in Steventon, UK, on December 16, 1775. She was the youngest of seven children in her family.Jane Austen’s father was a country vicar.Jane got most of her education at home. Her family members are all fond of reading books. She appreciated…

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson was an English poet. Born: 6 August 1809 Died: 6 October 1892 Nationality: English Occupation: Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign (1850–1892), The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom. It was in 1850 that Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, finally publishing his…

Oenone by Lord Alfred Tennyson “Oenone” is a dramatic monologue written by The Victorian poet Lord Alfred Tennyson in 1829. The whole poem is a kind of lament in which the elegiac mood predominates. Oenone feels so miserable that she calls upon death to come and end her life. Memories of Paris’s past love for…

Birth: 1552/1553 - London, England (there is still some ambiguity) Parents: His parenthood is obscure, but he was probably the son of John Spenser, a journeyman clothmaker. Spouse: Married his first wife, Machabyas Childe. They had two children, Sylvanus and Katherine. By 1594, Spenser's first wife had died, and in that year, he married a…

Paradise Lost: Book 1 (798 lines) By John Milton The first section (1-26) contains the invocation and the purpose of writing.The second section (27-83) gives a birds-eye view of the consequences of the disobedience and the revolt and the expulsion of Satan from paradise.The third section (84-282) contains the speeches between Satan and Beelzebub (Satan’s…

The Wanderer The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book, a manuscript dating from the late 10th century. It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse. As is often the case with Anglo-Saxon verse, the composer and compiler are anonymous, and within the manuscript the poem is untitled. The Wanderer conveys the meditations…

I Have a Dream I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon…

Shooting an Elephant In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very…

Rejecting Knighthood by Rabindranath Tagore Your Excellency, The enormity of the measures taken by the Government in the Punjab for quelling some local disturbances has, with a rude shock, revealed to our minds the helplessness of our position as British subjects in India. The disproportionate severity of the punishments inflicted upon the unfortunate people and…

The Merchant of Venice: Summary The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599. Characters Antonio – a prominent merchant of Venice in a melancholic mood.Bassanio – Antonio's…