LIFE AND LITERATURE

                                            JOHN MILTON John Milton   (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, pamphleteer,and historian,   polemicist,   man of letters, and a civil servant for the   Commonwealth of England   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. He is considered the most significant English author after   William Shakespeare Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated   Areopagitica   (1644)—w...

JOHN KEATS                                                                             John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley , despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.            Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his life, his reputation grew after his death, so that by the end of the 19th century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of later poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary...

Here after we are going to introduce about Famous Literary authors  & their Works LIFE OF EDMUND SPENSER Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London. As a young boy, he was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge and his friend name is Gabriel Harvey. Through his poetry Spenser hoped to secure a place at court, which he visited in Raleigh's company to deliver his most famous work, The Faerie Queene. He boldly antagonized the queen's principal secretary, Lord Burghley, and published  in 1591. When it was proposed that he receive payment of 100 pounds for his epic poem, Burghley remarked, "What, all this for a song!"   In 1596 Spenser wrote a prose pamphlet titled, A View of the Present State of Ireland. The pamphlet argued that Ireland would never be totally 'pacified' by the English until its indigenous language and customs had been destroyed, if neces...

THE EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR II v   INTRODUCTION       The Second World War destroyed innumerable human lives and paralyzed the normal life of people all over wither world.  The war created a greatest dent in the financial reserves of  England.  She lost her supreme position in the global politics as the use and Russia became the two greatest powers in the world.  The concept of the welfare state was a post-war necessity and England concentrated on internal growth and rehabilitation. v   LABOR GOVERNMENT      In the general elections in 1945, the labor party won and formed the government with clement Attlee as the prime minister.  The government passed a number of acts to ensure social security and welfare of the helpless section of the society security and welfare of the helpless section of the society and make England a welfare state.  Private business was brought under public control....

LIFE BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS v   INTRODUCTION      The First World War that began in 1914 ended by the peace treaty of Versailles in 1919.  As a result of the war many were killed and many were wounded and several countries in Europe were collapsed.  People of England faced many difficulties after the war. v   AFTERMATH OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR      After the First World War, the use had become the foremasts super power of the world and as Britain’s trade and economy were badly shaken, she receded to the background.  During the war England had borrowed a lot from the use.  So, the war had incurred a heavy national debt to the country      After the war the armies were demobilized which resulted in unemployment, the cost of living which was raided during the war never came down.  The two important industries of England namely the coal mining and railways were badly hit. ...