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Their language was Old English and Modern English.
Anglo Saxon is the collective term usually used to describe ethnically and linguistically related peoples living in the South and east of the island of Great Britain from around the early 5th century A.D to the Norman Conquest of 1066. They spoke closely related Germanic dialects and they are indentified by Bede as the descendants of three Germanic tribes Angles, Jutes and Saxons. “Anglo” comes from “Angle” which means spear many used to believe that they are called angle. On the other hand, “Saxon” comes from “Sax” which means sword historians to believe that they were stronger as sword.
. Write the elaborated forms of the writers’ name.
1. T.S Eliot – Thomas Sterns Eliot.
2. W.B Yeats – William Butler Yeats.
3. G.B Shaw – George Bernard Shaw.
4. S.T Coleridge – Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
5. P.B Shelley – Percy Bysshe Shelley.
6. H.G Wells – Herbert George Wells.
7. D.H Lawrence – David Herbert Lawrence.
8. F.R Leavis – Frank Raymond Leavis.
9. R.K Narayan – Rashipuram Krishnaswami Narayan.
#Q. Name of American writers and works.
American Novel: - Poet name Work
Herman Melville Moby-Dick
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Saul Bellow Seize the Day
American Poetry: -
Walt Whitman Song of Myself
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods in the Snowy Evening
Emily Dickinson I felt funeral in my brain
American Drama:-
Arthur Miller The Death of a sales Man
O’Neill The Long Day’s Journey into Night
Earnest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
American Prose:-
Emerson The American Scholars
Thomas Paine The Crisis
Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle
#Q. Escapism of Keats.
John Keats (1795-1821) is the greatest escapist in the Romantic Era. He wants to flee from all rigidities and conformities and harsh realities to the ivory tower. Keats’s escapism is based on not only his fear for the hard realities of life but his longing for the dreamy world of permanent happiness of the joyous world.
“Away! Away! For I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of poesy.” (Ode to a Nightingale)
#Q. Characteristic of Keats.
(1) Impersonal poetry. (2) Negative capability. (3) Sensuousness. (4) Love for beauty. (5) Great Ode writer. (6) Pessimism. (7) Art is long but life is short.
#Q. Short note on Shakespeare.
Shakespeare means a virtuoso writer, legend dramatist, a consummate poet and a good performer on the stage who remains as a glittering star in the sky not only in English literature but also in the world literature. He was born about the 23rd April in 1564, at Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire. In his 19th year he married Anne Hathaway, a woman eight years senior. As You Like It, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Julius Ceaser, and The Tempest are well-known creations of Shakespeare. His famous remark-“All’s well that End’s well.” He is famous for the objective presentation of his deep knowledge about human psychology. He wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets, 3 narrative poems. He died in 1616, 23rd April.
#Q. Short note on William Wordsworth.
William Wordsworth was born on 7th April, 1770 at Ceckermouth, Cumberland. He lost his parents when he was child. He began his career as a poet. He is a Romantic poet of all Romantic poets of Nature. He was worshiper of Nature. He enjoyed Nature felt Nature and found divinity in Nature. He is a spokes man of pantheism. He believes that there is a divine spirit pervading all the objects of Nature. So his view “God is all and all is God.” This belief finds a complete expression in Tintern Abbey.
“Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her”
The first fruits of his genius were given out in the Lyrical Ballads (1798). Romanticism begins through publishing this book. The Solitary Reaper, Tintern Abby, and Michael are his remarkable creation. He also wrote about five hundred sonnets. He died in 1850.
#Q. Short note on Tennyson.
