Literary Foundation

The Age of Milton Literary features:- (a) During this period, it is clearly apparent the decline of Elizabethan standards in several ways- (1) the fashion of shorter poems, especially the lyrics of a peculiar type. (2) Decay in the high poetical arduous. (b)This age has few great writers among Milton stands the very great. His prose is among the finest controversial writing and his poetic achievements are considered to be second to that of Shakespeare. (c) There is a group of poets who have the influence of Donne called the "Metaphysical Poets" by Dr Johnson. Their poems are full of imagery and striking conceits, revealing great psychological insight and delicacy of thought development. It includes poets like- Crashaw, Georg Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell. (d) There is another group of poets called "The Cavalier Poets". They dealt with the theme of Love. Henerck, Lovelace, and Suckling represent this group. (e) Prose made an expansion in the age. The output was excel...

The Puritan Age (1620-1660) Most broadly, The Puritan movement is a rebirth of the moral nature of man followed by the intellectual awakening of Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Puritans were neither a religious sect nor narrow-minded as many Historians pictured. Pym, Hampden, Eliot and Milton were Puritans and were honoured. They struggled for human liberty. Cromwell and Thomas Hooker were also Puritans. Cromwell strongly supported religious tolerance while Hooker gave the world the first written constitution. That Puritan document is one of the greatest achievements in the history of government. Since Puritans were in favour of religious tolerance, Puritanism included all sheds of religious beliefs. Puritanism is the name given to the people who wanted change in worship in the reformed English churches. But this idea was opposed by the king, his evil counsellors and a band of intolerant churchmen. Later this Puritanism movement turned into a national movement. It ...

The Mother of Modern Indian English Poetry, a prominent voice of the colonial era, and an  Iconoclast, Kamala Das was born in a conservative Brahmin family on 31st March 1934. She, in her family, experiences patriarchial prejudice and its subjugation. Though her mother- Balamani Amma was a famous poet, her father was an editor and her Grand Uncle- Nalapat Narayana Menon, was a respected writer.   Culturally,  her childhood is very enriched. She is a multilingual writer who knows her mother tongue- Malayalam and English. She has two names  Madhavikutty - for her Malayalam readers and Kamla Das - for English readers. Her career began at the age of 06 when she started writing a manuscript which is a collection of her sad poems. However, at the age of 15, she married and moved to Bombay where she is always weighed down by the expectations of her husband, family and Society to be a good wife or mother.  Still, she continues her writi...

 The Age of Elizabeth and Playwrights University Wits refers to a group of  young men mostly belongs to Oxford and Cambridge. It includes George Peele, Robert Green Thomas Nash, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Kyd, and Christopher Marlowe.Their works were mainly centred on Heroic themes that were tragic in nature. The heroic theme needs heroic treatment with great fullness and variety, splendid descriptions, and long swelling speeches. Their style was also 'heroic', and the chief aim was to achieve solid, sound lines and a powerful declaration. Important playwrights of University Wits are- (a) George Peele (1558-98) was born in London and educated at Christ's Hospital and at Oxford. His play includes - "The Araygnement of Paris"( 1584 ), "The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the Frist"( 1593 ), "The Old Wives"( 1591-94 ), "The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe"( published in 1599 ) . (b) Robert Greene (1558-92)   was born in Norwich, educated ...