English Literature

Preface to Lyrical Ballads   by William Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads  by William Wordsworth begins with a discussion of the collection of poems, written mostly by Wordsworth with contributions by S.T. Coleridge. Originally published in 1798, in 1800, Wordsworth added an earlier version of the  Preface , which he extended two years later. Because he felt his poems were of a new theme and style, Wordsworth felt they needed an introduction. Some scholars say that Coleridge wanted to write the preface, but never got around to it, so the work fell to Wordsworth instead. As the majority of the poems in the collection are by Wordsworth, this was probably a more appropriate choice, though there is suggestion in some of Coleridge’s later writings that the two disagreed about what the Preface should say. In the  Preface,  Wordsworth writes that the purpose of the collection was to write poems that dealt with things that happen in everyday life. Most importantly, Wordsworth considered ea

   Jazz Age The Jazz Age was a post-World War I movement in the 1920s from which jazz music and dance emerged. Although the era ended with the outset of the Great Depression in 1929, jazz has lived on in American popular culture. The birth of jazz music is credited to African Americans, but both black and white Americans alike are responsible for its immense rise in popularity. The rise of jazz coincided with the rise of radio broadcast and recording technology, which spawned the popular “potter palm” shows that included big-band jazz performances. Female singers such as Bessie Smith emerged during this period of postwar equality and open sexuality, paving the way for future female artists.  If freedom was the mindset of the Roaring Twenties, then jazz was the soundtrack. The Jazz Age was a cultural period and movement that took place in America during the 1920s from which both new styles of music and dance emerged. Largely credited to African Americans employing new musical techniques

 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as satire Samuel Langhorne Clemens , more popularly known as  Mark Twain  (1835-1910) was an American novelist and humorist. He wrote his first popular story  The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavers County  in 1865. He wrote  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  (1876), and its sequal  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  (1885) which is also called " the great American novel ". His another works include " The Innocent Abroad"(1869), Roughing It (1872), The Gilded Age (1873)  and  Life on the Mississippi (1883).  Mark Twain was lauded as the greatest humorist of his age.  William Faulkner  called him  the father of American Literature . The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered the masterpiece of Mark Twain. Ernest Hemingway said, " All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain, called, the Huckleberry Finn ", he cautioned, "If you must read it you must stop where the Nigger Jim is stolen from the boy

An Essay on Ars Poetica Around the first century BC the center of literary and cultural activity shifted from Alexandria to Rome . With the Augustan era, there dawned a golden age of poetry amd literary criticism. This age was made brilliant by the achievements of Virgil, Ovid, Tribulles and Horace. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65BC-8BC) also known as Horace was the leading Roman poet during the time of Augustus. At the age of twenty he went to Athens for study but he joined the army of Brutus . Virgil and Varius , who were attracted to his poetry, introduced him to Maecenas . This meeting proved a turning point in the career of Horace. He devoted himself to Muse thereafter to the writing of  poetry. After Virgil's death, he was virtually a Poet Laureate . He died peacefully as a bachelor on 27th November, 8BC. Horace was a poet of repute. His literary opus include: Satires, Epodes, Odes, Carmen Saeculare, Epistles and Ars Poetica or Epistle to the Pisos . The most frequent t

 Definition of Hypothesis The hypothesis is a tentative solution based on insufficient evidence that can be true or false. Hypotheses bring clarity, specificity and focus to a research problem. You can conduct a valid investigation constructing a single formal hypothesis. On the other hand, within the context of a research study, you can construct as many hypothesis as you consider to be appropriate. ➢Black and Champion define a hypothesis as ' a tentative statement about something, the validity of which is usually unknown'. ➢ Bogardus says: A Hypothesis is a proposition to be tested. ➢ Goode and Hatt - It is a proposition which can be put to test to   determinants  validity. ➢ P. V. Yaung - The idea of ​a temporary but central importance that   becomes the basis of useful research is called a working hypothesis.  ➢ F. N. Kerlinger - A hypothesis is a description of the relationship of two or more variables. ➢ Townsend - Hypothesis is suggested answer to a problem in th

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