1.Compare a major writer of this age with other major writers from the various ages.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was born in London 21 may 1668, the year of the Glorious Revolution. Pope's formal education ended at this time, and from then on , he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers such as the satirists Horace and juvenal, the epic poets Homer and Virgil as well as English authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Dryden. He studied many languages, reading works by, French , Italian, Latin, and Greek poet.
Pope was a superstar of the English neoclassical Literature, so much so that the first half of the British eighteen century is often referred to as "the age of Pope". Pope alternately defined, invented, satirized, critiqued, and reformed almost all of the genres and convention of early eighteenth- century British verse. He polished his work with meticulous care, and he is generally recognized as the greatest English poet between John Milton and William Wordsworth. Pope died 30 May 1744 Radnor House Independent, school , united Kingdom.
Pope's major works in neo-classical
A Catholic Exile
Pastorals
An Essay on Criticism
The Rape of the Lock
Windsor forest
Translations of homer
The Dunciad
The Epistles and An Essay on Man
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. This age a Golden age in English History. the era is most famous for its Theatre, as William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He called often called England's national poet.
William was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. He had three children's. William collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems. he died 23 April 1616 Stratford- upon -Avon he divided four periods.
First period of early experiment. Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece 1594, Titus Andronicus, Henry VI , 1590-1591, love's labor's lost 1590 in many written works,
second period, Development. Romeo and Juliet , midsummer Night's Dream, 1595 merchant wives of Windsor 1597 etc.
Third Period , Maturity and Gloom. Sonnet, Twelfth night 1600, Julius Casar, Hamlet, Othello 1604, King Lear 1605, Macbeth 1606 etc.
Four period , Late Experiment. Coriolanus, Pericles, 1608, The T
empest 1611, Henry VIII.
Alfred Tennyson
On August 6, 1809, one of the most important English poets of the Victorian era was born, Alfred Lord Tennyson. The works of Alfred Lord Tennyson are best known for their close affinity with the English mythology and English history, they influenced the movement of the 19th century’s Victorian Art as well as the Arts and Crafts Movement, which was to join art and handcraft using simple forms applied to mostly romantic or medieval styles.
Lord Alfred Tennyson as a Victorian Poet-
Lord Alfred Tennyson was regarded as the true representative of the Victorian Age. He was most accomplished poet of the Victorian Era. For his entire lifetime, Tennyson “was a voice, the voice of whole people”. As a representative of his age, Tennyson’s poetry covered all the major issues of the Victorian era such as: the concerns of Industrial revolution, modernization, poverty, war, conflict between science and religion and other social issues. The Victorian Age saw three major socio-cultural changes that were industrial revolution, evolution of Science, and rise of democracy. Tennyson voiced these changes in his poetry. Tennyson’s poetry of life and Death. The poet’s work thus reflects everything that the Victorian society was experiencing at that time.
Tennyson wrote on a wide variety of subjects. His poems cover medieval legends observations of nature, classical myths, contemporary events, personal thoughts and more. His initial poems were influenced by the Romantics. For instance, in his poem ‘Timbuctoo’ (1829), Tennyson wrote on a legendary African intellectual city, In ‘Mariana’ (1830), Tennyson depicts the inner state of mind of a woman waiting for her lover through the descriptions of the natural world. Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote on the doomed charge of six hundred British soldiers in the Crimean War in his ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (1854). In “The Princess” (1847) Tennyson addressed women’s rights in higher education. Thus the poet’s works reflect the features of the Victorian Poetry.
Apart from contemporary concerns, Lord Alfred Tennyson also wrote on the Romantic past and historical events. Many poems by Tennyson explore the mythological past inspired from Homer, Virgil and Dante. Tennyson picked up some of the actual events from Homer’s “Odyssey” as subjects for his poems like “Ulysses” and “The Lotos- Eaters”. Likewise, his ode ‘To Virgil’, Tennyson writes about the fall of Troy inspired from Virgil’s great literary work “Aeneid”. Similarly, Tennyson wrote on medieval legends, a world of knights in shining armour and their damsels in distress in poems like ‘The Lady of Shalott’ and ‘Idylls of the King’.
Hence, all the poet’s works show or revealed the characteristics of the Victorian Poetry. It also represent the true figure of the Victorian Age.
Tennyson poem
Idylls Of The King: A Peep Into The Victorian
There were ebb and tide in Tennyson's literary reputation. After his death and on into the early Twentieth century, the almost universal distaste for the bourgeois orthodoxy among intellectuals caused his reputation to decline drastically. Joyce dismissed him as "Alfred Lawn Tennison", and critics vied with one another to assign him lower and lower ranking as a minor figure in English poetry. The chief cause for the decline in his reputation was his advocacy of Victorian orthodoxy and the bourgeois ethos and the moral preachings which predominated in his poetry. He was largely credited with having given the English people their flattering image of the Prince Consort the German husband of Queen Victoria. But Tennyson's reputation at mid-twentieth century, however, was rising, and he is now again rated highly, though significantly not for the qualities that brought him fame in his era. T. S. Eliot in 1936 acclaimed Tennyson as a great poet because of his "abundance, variety and complete competence"
The Idylls of the King; Lord Tennyson best ever composition during the Victorian age. Alfred Lord Tennyson is the most important poet of the Victorian period and the finest of poetries are included in his works in English literature. Consisting of twelve poems which were published in between 1842 and 1888, in several fragments and blends.
Idylls of the King is a poetic dealing of the Arthurian legend written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The four books namely Enid, Vivien, Elaine and Guinevere were published as Idylls of the King in 1859.
With fascinating characters of King Arthur, Guinevere, Sir Lancelot and several other Knights of the Round Table, the Idylls of the King deals with a thrilling era of the English history.
The Puritan Age
The Literature of the Seventeenth Century may be divided into two periods—The Puritan Age or the Age of Milton (1600-1660), which is further divided into the Jacobean and Caroline periods after the names of the ruled James I and Charles I, who rules from 1603 to 1625 and 1625 to 1649 respectively; and the Restoration Period or the Age of Dryden (1660-1700).
The Seventeenth Century was marked by the decline of the Renaissance spirit, and the writers either imitated the great masters of the Elizabethan period or followed new paths. We no longer find great imaginative writers .
John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Written in blank verse, Paradise Lost is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of English literature.
John Milton is written many poem ,drama, prose, black verse in this age. Puritan age popular writer is Milton. and the age call a Milton age. few example poem and drama work of john Milton.
Poetry and drama
1629: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
1630: On Shakespeare
1631: On Arriving at the Age of Twenty-Three
1632: L'Allegro
1632: Il Penseroso
1634: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, commonly known as Comus (a masque)
1637: Lycidas
1645: Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin
1652: When I Consider How My Light is Spent
1655: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
1667: Paradise Lost
1671: Paradise Regained
1671: Samson Agonists
1673: Poems, &c, Upon Several Occasions
2. Write in brief about your Favorite Major/Minor Writer of the age.
Richard Steele
Steele was born in Dublin, Ireland, in March 1672 to Richard Steele, a wealthy attorney, and Elinor Symes (née Sheyles); his sister Katherine was born the previous year. He was the grandson of Sir William Steele, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and his first wife Elizabeth Godfrey. His father lived at Mountown House, Monkstown, County Dublin. His mother, of whose family background little is known, was described as a woman of "great beauty and noble spirit". he died 1 September 1729 Carmarthen, Wales.
Steele became a Whig Member of Parliament in 1713, for Stockbridge. He was soon expelled for issuing a pamphlet in favor of the Hanoverian succession. When George I of Great Britain came to the throne in the following year, Steele was knighted and given responsibility for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. He returned to parliament in 1715, for Boroughbridge.
While at Drury Lane, Steele wrote and directed the sentimental comedy The Conscious Lovers, which was an immediate hit. However, he fell out with Addison and with the administration over the Peerage Bill (1719), and in 1724 he retired to his second wife's homeland of Wales, where he spent the remainder of his life.
Steele was a member of the Kit-Kat Club. Both Steele and Addison became closely associated with Child's Coffee-house in St Paul's Churchyard.
Steele work
The Christian Hero
The Funeral
The Lying lover
The Tender Husband
Prologue john Vanbrugh : The Mistake
Prologue Addison : The Drummer.
Samul Richardson
Samuel Richardson was Born 19 August 1689 Mackworth, Derbyshire, England an English writer and printer best known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). He printed almost 500 works in his life, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar. Richardson had been apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost her along with five sons, but remarried and had four daughters who reached adulthood, but no male heirs to continue the print shop. As it ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and immediately joined the admired writers of his day. Leading figures he knew included Samuel Johnson and Sarah Fielding, the physicians Behmenist and George Cheyne, and the theologian and writer William Law, whose books he printed. At Law's request, Richardson printed some poems by John Byrom. In literature he rivalled Henry Fielding; the two responded to each other's literary styles. He Died 4 July 1761 ,Parsons Green, now in London, England.
Novels
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740–1761)
Pamela in her Exalted Condition (1741–1761)
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady (1747–61
Letters and Passages Restored to Clarissa (1751)
The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1761)
The History of Mrs. Beaumont – A Fragment – unfinished
Supplements
A Reply to the Criticism of Clarissa (1749)
Meditations on Clarissa (1751)
The Case of Samuel Richardson (1753)
An Address to the Public (1754)
2 Letters Concerning Sir Charles Grandison (1754)
A Collection of Moral Sentiments (1755)
Conjectures on Original Composition in a Letter to the Author 1st and 2nd editions (1759) (with Edward Young)
As editor
Aesop's Fables – 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions (1739–1753)
The Negotiations of Thomas Roe (1740)
A Tour through Great Britain (4 Volumes) by Daniel Defoe
The Life of Sir William Harrington (knight) by Anna Meads
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