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Excerpt from Pale Fire (1962). Case of intertextuality.Novel set in a ..., Wordsmith College, in New Wye.Comic device, Pnin's name as an 'acoustic phenomenon'.
In chapter 1 : 'Now a secret must be imparted' is a compositional device that creates the effect of '....' The action of the narrative slows down, taking about seven more pages for the conductor to reach Pnin's coach. In the meantime, the reader is provided with necessary information about the character. + complicity with the reader
Coleridge was born in a small town in the southwest of England, Ottery St. Mary, but at his father's death was sent to Christ's Hospital (school) in London, which he experienced as an ... He became an excellent scholar, and later attended Cambridge University, but never ...
After the publication of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge spent the year 1798-99 at the University of Göttingen. He became very interested in the philosophy of...
The narrative begins in ..., and the first indication in the novel appears on page 2: 'Nowadays, at fifty-two, he was crazy about sunbathing...' As the reader learns in Chapter Three, Pnin was born in 1898.
Who wrote, speaking of the French Revolution,"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/ But to be young was very heaven!"
Louverture was the leader of the Haitian slave rebellion (1791) which led to the independence of Haiti (....
Coleridge's thought, opposed to English empiricism and laying emphasis on the mind's creative power was enormously important in English-speaking cultures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; it gave the impetus for ..
Wordsworth's poetry is about understanding himself and his own experience. It dramatizes...
As we have seen, the assertion of the... is central to Romanticism. We are dealing with writers who "struggled hard to maintain their individuality amid an age of encroaching uniformity
Example of literary ballads. John Keats wrote ...: A ballad" (1819), a poem about knights seduced into death by a fairy; it is based on a medieval French text.
Wordsworth's poetry, at first criticized, became more and more appreciated as time passed; he was made Poet Laureate in ...
Both blank verse and free verse are free from rhyme scheme. But, blank verse does have a consistent ...
What literary work exemplifies the sublime for Romantic writers, as well as for Edmund Burke in his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)?
Coleridge distinguishes...imagination (the subjective aspect of all sensory perception) and secondary imagination (the ... imagination of the artist or poet). Fancy, on the other hand, is a kind of ...
England in 1819: The sonnet passionately attacks, as the poet sees it, England's decadent, oppressive ruling class. King ...is described as "old, mad, blind, despised, and dying".
Wordsworth: "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807) Coleridge "Dejection, An Ode" (1804)Keats "Ode to a Nightingale" (1819)These poems all explore the poet's sense that he has lost his ...
According to Wordsworth, poetry is strictly the language of ..., when prose is well written
Fancy refers to the case where such pre-existing elements are simply arranged, but not ... by their arrangement
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I stillA lover of the meadows and the woods,And mountains; and of all that we beholdFrom this green earth; of all the mighty worldOf eye and ear, - both what they half create,15 And what perceive; well pleased to recognizeIn nature and the language of the sense,Who is the author and what's the poem?