Essays Tagged: "english poet"

Essay on William Shakespeares Life

William Shakespeare was a supreme English poet and playwright,universally recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists.A complete, ... e first period my be no more than retouchings ofearlier works by others. Four plays dramatizing the English civil strifeof the 15th century are possibly Shakespeare's earliest dramatic works.These pla ... e all comedies and satires.Next, Shakespeare's second period includes his most important playsabout English history. The second period historical plays include RichardII, Henry IV, Parts I and II, and ...

(4 pages) 113 0 4.1 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

A wander through Wordsworth's poem "I Wander Lonely as a Cloud"

Wander Through Wordsworth's Poem"I Wander Lonely as a Cloud"William Wordsworth is a famous Romantic English poet known for his imagery in his work. In his poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," one can ...

(2 pages) 138 0 3.4 Sep/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

This is an essay about william wadsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"

andered Lonely As A CloudWandering Through Wordsworth's PoemWilliam Wordsworth is a famous Romantic English poet known for his imagery. In his poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud," we can see his use o ...

(2 pages) 123 1 4.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Externally Different, Internally the Same; an essay about the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Compares and contrasts two of Chaucer's pilgrims, the knight and the plowman.

the SameThe Canterbury Tales is the most famous work of Geoffrey Chaucer, a late fourteenth century English poet. Chaucer envisioned English poetry which could be read by anyone who spoke English. The ...

(3 pages) 75 0 4.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucher

Biography of Horace (Horatio) Walpole 1717-1797

ace (or Horatio) Walpole was born in London during 1717. He became the fourth Earl of Oxford and an English writer.Horaces' mother died in 1737, when he was twenty years old. This was a grave disappoi ... died at Eton College and the University of Cambridge. After completing his education his friend, an English poet, Thomas Gray and him traveled in France and Italy. At Reggio (Italy) he and Gray had ar ...

(2 pages) 37 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

One of Sir John Sucklings best poems "Song" and how it is typical of the calvalier style of British Literature

John Suckling is perhaps one of the greatest examples of a great 17thcentury English poet. His cavalier style of writing is renowned for it for its carefree style and use of lov ... sical affairs." (Marvell) As previously stated they write in a light manner about the events of the English upper-class lifestyle. His themes could be easily related to anyone in society. "Cavalier po ...

(3 pages) 21 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn" by John Keats.

ature that came as a result of a revolt against the previous period "Classicism". John Keats was an English poet who became one of the most important Romantic poets. William Wordsworth, another signif ...

(6 pages) 160 1 4.6 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Analysis of the story "Shakespeare in the bush".

bout the interpretation of Shakespeare's literature. Her friend stated that Shakespeare was "a very English poet" and that people of other cultures could certainly misunderstand his literal meanings. ...

(5 pages) 235 5 4.6 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Biographical account of the life and works of the 16th-century composer Thomas Campion.

20)Born Feb. 12, 1567, LondonDied March 1, 1620, LondonThomas Campion, also spelled Campian, was an English poet, composer, musical and literarytheorist, physician, and one of the outstanding English ... than the old 'modal' system. Campion theorized on musical rhymes in his Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602). In his book he proposed that timing and sound duration are the real definitio ...

(2 pages) 37 1 4.2 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Charles Darwin.

nnah Wedgewood Darwin daughter of a porcelain manufacturer. His grandfather, in fact, was the great English poet Erasmus Darwin. His early school training was at a small schoolhouse in Shrewsbury. Aft ...

(4 pages) 56 1 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

T.S. Eliot report - Biography and Works.

St. Louis, Missouri. Along with being a playwright, literary critic, and editor, he was an American-English poet. Eliot lived In St. Louis for the first eighteen years of his life and attended Harvard ...

(1 pages) 53 2 2.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Comparing and Analyzing Sylvia Plaths poems'Blackberrying'and 'mirror'

Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932. In the 1950's she married an English poet Ted Hughes, but their marriage was an unhappy one, though both of them were highly crea ...

(6 pages) 63 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The Life of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert BrowningEnglish poet, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue. Robert Browning was long unsuccessful as ... Dark Tower series, which started in 1982 with The GunslingerElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861))English poet, the wife of Robert Browning, the most respected and successful woman poet of the Victo ...

(7 pages) 73 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Essay On William Wordsworth's Poem London, 1807

anged into a country full of selfish men. He goes even further, begging the deceasedJohn Milton, an English poet and political writer, saying, "Raise us up, return to usagain." He further explains wha ... It also prepared me for different slang terms. In this poemthe writer is addressing John Milton, an English Poet. The writer's attitude towardMilton is distress and disgust toward the state at which E ...

(3 pages) 37 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Short Shakespeare Essay

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists. His life was tragic a ... enticing to his father he apprenticed a butcher down the street. William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists. His life was tragic a ... renticing to his father he apprenticed a butcher down the street. William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists. His life was tragic a ...

(2 pages) 34 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Critical appreciation of diary of a church mouse

John Betjeman, an English poet, broadcaster and writer on architecture was born on 6th April 1906. One is tempted to s ... thmical flow to the poem and keep the reader engrossed in the poemThe poem describes the life in an English church, seen from an unusual angle. 'It is a satire of man' hypocrisy'; this is the finest w ...

(5 pages) 28 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

I AM CHARLES DARWIN (THIS IS ALL WRITTEN IN 1ST PERSON)

ry, England. I was the son of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgewood. My grandfather was the greatest English poet Erasmus Darwin. My early school training was at a small schoolhouse in Shrewsbury. My f ...

(3 pages) 18 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin

An Explication of "My mistress' eyes"

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616. He was an English poet, dramatist, and actor. He is thought of as the greatest dramatist of all time. "During ...

(4 pages) 72 0 3.3 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Wordsworth : Preface to Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth : an English poet who belongs to the expressive theory of the 19th century .Industrial Revolution:The Fre ...

(2 pages) 66 0 3.7 Jan/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Arnold's Epochs of Expansion and Epochs of Concentration

t in the world;" (Leitch 824) said the Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold. Matthew Arnold, an English poet and critic whose work was both a representative of the Romantic ideas and of the Victor ... . Matthew Arnold, a Romantic poet transformed into a critic of the Romantic Age, contributes to the English critical theories, the concept of epochs of expansion and epochs of concentration.Matthew Ar ...

(9 pages) 31 0 2.5 Mar/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists