John Millington Synge ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots during its opening …
He was born in London, very attached to his Roman Catholics parents, thus belonging to a proscribed sect. Being a self-taught man he read Greek, Latin, Italian and French, was very attached to Spenser and the metaphysical poets, and his model was Dryden. ‘Correctness’ became his study and aim. He was associated to the Whig …
Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock is one of the most famous English-language examples of the mock-epic. The inspiration for the poem was an actual incident among Pope’s acquaintances in which Robert, Lord Petre, cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor’s hair, and the young people’s families fell into strife as …
Introduction:– Eliot is one of the long line of poet-critics which stretches right from Ben Jonson to our day, and includes such names as Dryden, Dr. Johnson, Coleridge and Arnold. Though he did not formulate any comprehensive theory of poetry, he was a conscious poet who had thought long and deep about the mysteries of …
Introduction Often hailed as the successor to poet-critics such as John Dryden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot’s literary criticism informs his poetry just as his experiences as a poet shape his critical work. Though famous for insisting on “objectivity” in art, Eliot’s essays actually map a highly personal set of preoccupations(pengaruh terdahulu), responses and …
What is significance of tradition and individual talent? Who is T.S Eliot? T.S Eliot was a poet playwright and publisher. He was the most seminal critics of 20th century. Carlo Linati, Italian critic, found his poetry to be ‘irrational, incomprehensible… a magnificent puzzle’, and in his poetic endeavors ‘a deliberate critical purpose’. Eliot’s literary criticism is …
