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Jonathan Swift
A Man of Rhimes
Recently a genuine critical interest has emerged for Swift’s poetry. In the 19th century, unlike his prose his verse was sadly neglected. Swift’s own words on ...
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John James Ruskin
Ruskin was born in a family that had elevated their status by sheer hard work. The Ruskins belonged to that strata of the Victorian society that did not play a significant role in the developm...
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John Milton
The Poet Emerged
The plague broke out in London and the Miltons shifted to countryside for some time. He found his return to Cambridge after the epidemic a kind of pu...
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John Keats
Study Of Medicine
Keats had more than a year left of his apprenticeship, when he quarreled with Mr Hammond in the summer of 1814. Subsequently he came to London. He was about...
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John Donne
Donne once mentioned "It hath been my desire…… that I might die in the Pulpit…… that is, die the sooner by occasion of my former labors." The quality of preaching leads one to see the death in the pul...
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Ideas For Emily
Nevertheless, Rousseau’s experience in Lyons was crucial for hiseducation and future work. Towards the end of his mandate as tutor, Rousseau wrote...
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Dr. Ralph J. Bunche
Although he worked part-time jobs to help pay for his college expenses, he excelled in his subjects. He majored in political science and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the most prestigious honor so...
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Jane Austen
As Jane grew up, she frequently visited her brother Edward and his wife Elizabeth at Rowling. This made her acquainted with many upper class Kentish people. Edward’s social circle consisted of wealthy...
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James Joyce
The Parnell Affair
Charles Stewart Parnell, a Protestant landholder entered the British Parliament as anIrish representative in 1875. Along with the former Irish revo...
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Homer
The Iliad
The Iliad is the story of the Wrath of Achilles – the greatest warrior among Greeks. It is a distillation of the war against Troy. It is an explorati...
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Hermann Hesse
At Basel
After about four years of his apprenticeship in Tubingen, Hesse came to Basel. He was drawn to it, as it were, because it was the town of Nietzsche (in whom ...
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Henry Fielding
Fielding belonged to the rural gentry and laid claim to aristocratic forebears. He worked his influential connections hard, yet his was a very independent and democratic life. He fought for va...
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Henri Bergson
Bergson’s philosophy is positive as well as associated with psychology and neoclassicism. It appears as if it is a continuation of spiritualism, but also emphasizes the creative approach and its influ...
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Harold Pinter
The black little crab women with the long
Eyes, lips and claw in a can of chockfull stuff.
-From New Year in the Midlands
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