English Literature

 Such a Long Journey Such a Long Journey (1991) is a novel by Rohinton Mistry . It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won several other awards. It explores the various aspects of India like culture, community, administration, society, life, and faith of the Parsi community.                                                                             Such a Lonh Journey portrays the common lifestyle and anxiety of the Parsi community during to post independent India. The title of the novel has been taken from the poem /the Journey of Magi by T.S. Eliot. The novel clearly explores the socio political issues which affect the lives of the characters and also the anxieties avout their future as minority people. Mistry has effectively interwined components of  Parsi society and religion in ...

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, ...