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  Hello Friends,   This blog is my response to a task of written assignment  assigned to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir in History of English Literature and my topic is the poems by the Victorian Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning namely  1. Sonnet 43: How do I Love thee? 2. Patience Taught by Nature  Sonnet 43: How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ‘How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways,’ or ‘Sonnet 43’ is one of Browning’s most famous poems. She is a renowned Victorian poet who managed to achieve acclaim in her lifetime. She went on to influence many British and American poets, particularly Emily Dickinson. A prolific writer, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poems came to the attention of another famous poet of the time, Robert Browning. The two poets eventually married but were forced to wed secretly because of Barrett Browning’s father. He found out about the nuptials and disinherited his daughter. Barrett Browning and her husband moved to Italy, a...

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to a task of written assignment of Literature of the Victorians and my topic is Pippa's Song by the poet Robert Browning. Read and enjoy. Happy Learning.  Pippa’s Song by Robert Browning "The year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in His heaven– All’s right with the world!" Pippa’s Song by Robert Browning ‘ Pippa’s Song’ celebrates the “rightness” of the world in a deceptively light-hearted and peaceful moment. 'Pippa’s Song,’ also known as ‘The year’s at spring,’ can be found in Browning’s verse drama, Pippa Passes. It was published in 1841 but it wasn’t until it was republished in 1848 in Poems that it received the critical attention it deserves. This excerpt from the dramatic verse is by far the most famous passage. It’s short, to the point, and has even been set to music as a kind of nursery rhyme for children. ☆...

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the assignment assigned to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir on the subject Literature of the Romantics. My topic is "There is Pleasure in the Pathless Woods", a poem by Lord Byron. So read and enjoy. Happy Learning.  ☆ Lord Byron (George Gordon) The most flamboyant and notorious of the major English Romantic poets, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was likewise the most fashionable poet of the early 1800s. He created an immensely popular Romantic hero—defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt—for which, to many, he seemed the model. He is also a Romantic paradox: a leader of the era’s poetic revolution, he named Alexander Pope as his master; a worshiper of the ideal, he never lost touch with reality; a deist and freethinker, he retained from his youth a Calvinist sense of original sin; a peer of the realm, he championed liberty in his works and deeds, giving money, time, energy, and finally his life to the Greek war of independence. His...

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the assignment assigned to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir in the subject Literature of the Neoclassical Period. My topic is the poem "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" by Thomas Gray. So read and enjoy. Happy Learning.  Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" is an 18th-century ode by Thomas Gray. It is composed of ten 10-line stanzas, rhyming ABABCCDEED, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter. In this poem, Gray coined the phrase "Ignorance is bliss". It occurs in the final stanza of the poem. The saying “Ignorance is bliss” originates in Thomas Gray's poem “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (1742). The quote goes: “Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.” Face it: you were better off not knowing that, weren't you? Generally speaking, ignorance is a detestable state of mind.  Ode on a Di...