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During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Romantic revival in English literature witnessed an exceptional period of artistic and literary creativity. This movement was characterized by a renewed interest in the natural world, emotion, and imagination, as well as a rejection of the Enlightenment era's rationalism and scientific progress.  William Wordsworth One of the most prominent figures of the Romantic revival was William Wordsworth, whose poetry celebrated the beauty of the natural world and the power of the human imagination. His famous poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is a classic example of Romantic literature, with its vivid descriptions of the natural landscape and its celebration of the beauty of the world around us. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge, another significant figure of the Romantic revival, explored themes of love, nature, and the supernatural in his work. His most famous poem, "Kubla Khan," is a dreamlike meditati...

The 'Queen's Language' English stepped into the Indian subcontinent along with the British people. The Englishmen came to India with the purpose of business and trade. They established the British East India Company on the 31st of December, 1600. This marks the beginning of the English language in India. The British government which ruled India through its political agent had made several policies for the proper administration of its colonies. The Charter Act of 1813 had several major influences and impacts on the education of Indians and the growth of the English language. The government inserted a clause according to which a minimum amount of one lakh per annum was dedicated to educating the natives of India. This promoted the spread of English literature in India. The Charter Act also promoted the production and publication of English books in India. English education in India was carried out by two different sources of different characters, one being the Christin missi...

Natyashastra is an ancient Indian discourse on theatre with details about performing arts, theatrical techniques, dance, and music. It is believed to have been written during the period between 200 BC and 200 AD in Classical India and is attributed to the Sage 'Bharata'. He provides an extensive description of the genres of drama, plot structure, characters and their types, and doctrine of 'bhava' and 'rasa'. The significant contribution of this historic work is the theory of 'Rasa' which can be understood as a dynamic experience between the artist (the creator), the artistic expression (the work of art), and those who receive it (the audience). The artist experiences emotion and is so overwhelmed by it that he seeks a medium with which to express those feelings. The spectator or audience viewing the artist's work receives this emotion through the artist's medium and thus experiences the same emotion felt by the creator. According to Bharata, ...

"The Rape of the Lock" was first published in 1712 and later expanded in 1714. The occasion for this elegant comic piece was the forceful cutting by Lord Petre of a lock of hair from Lady Arabella Fermor's head. This trivial event caused dissension between their two aristocratic families. Alexander Pope composed the poem on the suggestion o John Caryll, a common friend of the families to compromise them. Pope intended his verse to cool hot tempers and to encourage his friends to laugh at their own folly. "The Rape of the Lock" stands as the most exquisite example in the English Language of ludicrous poetry or mock epic. The poem has a large number of epic features and is divided into five cantos. A mock-epic poem is a parody of the serious and comic style of classical epics. In such a poem, a common or trivial subject is treated in a sublime and lofty manner, but its foremost purpose is to ridicule both the subject and theme and to poke fun at human follies. Th...

  Elaine Showalter is an influential American critic famous for her conceptualization of gynocriticism, a woman-centric approach to literary analysis. Her work 'A Literature of their Own: British Novelists from Bronte to Lessing' discusses the female literary tradition which she analyses as evolution through three phases. Taking her title from an observation of John Stuart Mill in 1869 "If women lived in a different country from men and had never read any of their writings, they would have a literature of their own."   Showalter suggests that women themselves were slowly growing aware of their separateness and leaving a record of that awareness in their works. Showalter contents that all literary subcultures can be traced through three major phases: first a phase of "imitation" and "internalization" in which the subculture adopts the values and the literary forms of the dominant tradition - a phase that extends from the widespread appearance of ...