This paper attempts to ascertain the Baroque sensibility in Auden`s The Age of Anxiety, subtitled A Baroque Eclogue Rene Welleck abstracts such diverse notions of the Baroque as the courtly, the atectonic, and the sensually mystic, and Walter Benjamin notes a natural tendency towards the extreme, the revolutionary in the peripheral, and decadent violence as significant ..
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) lived in a variety of locales not always of her own choosing, just running along the edges of different places, looking for something Descriptions of places, imagined or real, pervade her writings, and the very titles of her collections signify the importance she attributes to those places With the obsessive attention to detail that she frequently..
The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid is Yeats`s epistolary autobiographic poem based on the mystic episodes about the Calif Harun Al-Rashid and his favorite subject Kusta Ben Luka, the diagrammatist from The Arabian Nights Naturally, its background and style are unique and, in a sense, it is a blended fabric of vision and reality It has been considered to be something of a myster..
T S Eliot articulated his consciousness of guilt through ambiguity in his early poetry His consciousness of guilt was inherited by his ancestor, William Eliott, who served as a juror for Salem Witchcraft Trials in 1692 Although Eliot knew his ancestor was involved in the Witch Trials, he neither spoke out nor was free from the sense of guilt Instead, Eliot kept guilt in hi..
Hardy`s pessimistic vision is special in that he does not deny all the values of the world, but finds present realities problematic in contrast with the past, the blissful moment in his memories In both of his verse and prose he commemorates his childhood and hometown, by which he seems to believe he can be re-invigorated Psychologically the tendency to long for the past is r..
This paper argues that William Carlos Williams` conceptions of the universe and poetic language show revealing affinities to those of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th American transcendental poet Generally, William Carlos Williams has been known as a poet who renounced private consciousness or romantic ego and leaped into the world of mere things This made him a foreru..
Ronald Stuard Thomas was a Welsh priest and poet Throughout his life, genuinely he believed that his double vocation was compatible For about forty-two years, he had worked as an Anglican priest in the rural parishes of Wales, but his writing poetry had lasted over fifty years From his early years of life, passionately he loved the natural beauty of Wales His early poetry e..
Eliot`s Christianity is not very orthodox when he says that one may become a Christian partly by pursuing scepticism to the utmost limit St John of the Cross is suggested by Eliot as one of the exemplary cases for would-be religious poets, in whose poems the emotion is so directly the consequence of the idea that the personality of the author is, somehow, annihilated Paradigm..