London experienced a cultural and artistic movement in between early 16th and early 17th century which is known as the…
Archives for England Gave The World
English Literature. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
Few modern English readers could enjoy Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ in the way Kipling intended it to be enjoyed. Kipling…
English Literature: Why should we study it?
When we dip into the rich variety of novels, poems, and plays which constitute English Literature we are reading works…
Kings Of Calamity: English Heritage Search For Britain’s Worst Ever Monarch
Picking someone as Britain’s worst ever ruler is certainly no easy task. How does one pit someone like the Saxon…
The Age of Reason and the spread of English
What non-English-speaking people would have taken the trouble to learn English in 1700? For study and diplomacy, the answer is practically nobody. That had changed by the year 1800: English had become an important language.
The English Renaissance Period
London experienced a cultural and artistic movement in between early 16th and early 17th century which is known as the English Renaissance Period. The English Renaissance was much influenced by the pan-European Renaissance which is said to have originated in the 14th century in northern Italy. Often known as the “age of the Shakespeare” or “the Elizabethan era,” the English Renaissance created stimulation in art, architecture, literature and music of whole of England.
English Literature: Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
In Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy deals with issues of morality in two fundamental ways; one is the…
The Age of Reason and the spread of English
What non-English-speaking people would have taken the trouble to learn English in 1700? For study and diplomacy, the…
Indian Literature: R. K. Narayan. The English Teacher
Krishnan, the central character of R. K. Narayan’s ‘The English Teacher’, undertakes an emotional, intellectual, and…
Scottish Memoirs – English Nobles’ Primae Noctus & Early Marriage Customs
An unfamiliar voice hailed me from the corner table at the restaurant. He was Stephan Nicholas and introduced him that…
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