Birth: 1552/1553 – London, England (there is still some ambiguity) Parents: His parenthood is obscure, but he was probably the son of John Spenser, a journeyman clothmaker. Spouse: Married his first wife, Machabyas Childe. They had two children, Sylvanus and Katherine. By 1594, Spenser’s first wife had died, and in that year, he married a

Flash Card Locksley Hall Alfred Lord Tennyson —————— “Locksley Hall” is a dramatic monologue centering on unrequited love. A dramatic monologue is a poem that presents a moment in which a narrator/speaker discusses a topic and, in so doing, reveals his personal feelings to a listener. Only the narrator talks—hence the term monologue, meaning “single (mono) discourse (logue).”

Read the content and know all Literary “ISM” Humanism Humanism came to be applied to the revival of Classical Literature. In the Elizabethan age, the scholars revived the old classical knowledge of Greek and Latin language and gave birth to a new culture. This is humanism. People of that time, especially scholars show great interest

Paradise Lost: Book 1 (798 lines) By John Milton The first section (1-26) contains the invocation and the purpose of writing. The second section (27-83) gives a birds-eye view of the consequences of the disobedience and the revolt and the expulsion of Satan from paradise. The third section (84-282) contains the speeches between Satan and

The Wanderer The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book, a manuscript dating from the late 10th century. It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse. As is often the case with Anglo-Saxon verse, the composer and compiler are anonymous, and within the manuscript the poem is untitled. The Wanderer conveys the meditations

I Have a Dream I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon

Shooting an Elephant In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very

Rejecting Knighthood by Rabindranath Tagore Your Excellency, The enormity of the measures taken by the Government in the Punjab for quelling some local disturbances has, with a rude shock, revealed to our minds the helplessness of our position as British subjects in India. The disproportionate severity of the punishments inflicted upon the unfortunate people and

Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long

The Merchant of Venice: Summary The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599. Characters Antonio – a prominent merchant of Venice in a melancholic mood. Bassanio –