Life since time immemorial has been evolving ,and evolving.If we see it according to Darwin's theory of Evolution and till date the Globalised world where computers have replaced human beings,manuscripts are replaced by prints but life's basic fundas,theories of karmas,positive attitudes,growth,issues of love and wars,marriages and functions all have just acquired a new domain crux being the same as it was in olden times.The main purpose of starting this blog is to make the beginners aware of the basics of life, which will open their doors to different genres of Literature be it fiction,non-fiction ,different approaches by some known Psychologists like Sigmund Freud and Lacan and also some aspects of Linguistics by great Linguist like Noam Chomskey and certain important aspects of Phonetics and Phonology will be touched by keeping the requirements of modern reader and learner of English in mind.Hope so the efforts will bring out the desired fruit and I am able to reach the demands of my clients.God's grace!
Module1,
Elizabethan Age/ Shakespearn Age /Renaissance Period /Golden Period in the History of English Literature /(1558-1625).
Renaissance means rebirth or revival.
In present context it means,rebirth or revival of Greek and Italian culture,learning,literature,art,painting,and architecture,etc,in other European countries like Germany,France and England.
It was around middle of mid fifteenth century that the Turks invaded and conquered most parts of Greek empire,with the result that the Greek philosophers,scholars and artists started fleeing from Greece and spreading out in other European countries.The exodus of Greek scholars gained momentum on the fall of Constantipole at the hands of the Turks in 1943.Many of them took shelter in Italy.Gradually ,Italy became the centre of Greek(Classical art and Literature.
In course,of time ,the Greek and Italian scholarship,art and literature reached England through France and found England a very favourable counry for their growth and advancement.Greek and Italian models began to be imitated or even copied in England.English poets,dramatists and authors became crazy about Greek models.Marlowe's plays,Shakespeare's Tragedies,Spenser's Faerie Queene,Sidney's Arcadia,Ben Johnson's Comedies,Bacon's Essays are all based directly or indirectly on the Greek classical models.Plato and Aristotle prescribed the principles of philosophy and literary criticism.This spirit of imitating the classical models persisted in English Literature upto the eighteenth century,when Pope went to the extent of saying;
:Know well each Ancient's proper character'
His fable,subject,scope in every page;
Religion,country,genius of his Age;
without alll these at once before your eyes,
Cavil you may, but never criticize.
Be Homer's worlks your study and delighht.
read them by day,and meditate by night'
Thence form your judgement,thence your maxims bring
And trace the muses upward to their spring.:
THe above lines on reading carefully we learn express the extent of Ancient Greek art,culture n literature and many more things like religion,culture have a deep influence on poets n dramatist of those times.
But it doesn't mean that poets,dramatists and authors of this age were mere imitatos.They just took models from the ancients and then produced their original works which are the glory of English Literature today.
Module1,
Elizabethan Age/ Shakespearn Age /Renaissance Period /Golden Period in the History of English Literature /(1558-1625).
Renaissance means rebirth or revival.
In present context it means,rebirth or revival of Greek and Italian culture,learning,literature,art,painting,and architecture,etc,in other European countries like Germany,France and England.
It was around middle of mid fifteenth century that the Turks invaded and conquered most parts of Greek empire,with the result that the Greek philosophers,scholars and artists started fleeing from Greece and spreading out in other European countries.The exodus of Greek scholars gained momentum on the fall of Constantipole at the hands of the Turks in 1943.Many of them took shelter in Italy.Gradually ,Italy became the centre of Greek(Classical art and Literature.
In course,of time ,the Greek and Italian scholarship,art and literature reached England through France and found England a very favourable counry for their growth and advancement.Greek and Italian models began to be imitated or even copied in England.English poets,dramatists and authors became crazy about Greek models.Marlowe's plays,Shakespeare's Tragedies,Spenser's Faerie Queene,Sidney's Arcadia,Ben Johnson's Comedies,Bacon's Essays are all based directly or indirectly on the Greek classical models.Plato and Aristotle prescribed the principles of philosophy and literary criticism.This spirit of imitating the classical models persisted in English Literature upto the eighteenth century,when Pope went to the extent of saying;
:Know well each Ancient's proper character'
His fable,subject,scope in every page;
Religion,country,genius of his Age;
without alll these at once before your eyes,
Cavil you may, but never criticize.
Be Homer's worlks your study and delighht.
read them by day,and meditate by night'
Thence form your judgement,thence your maxims bring
And trace the muses upward to their spring.:
THe above lines on reading carefully we learn express the extent of Ancient Greek art,culture n literature and many more things like religion,culture have a deep influence on poets n dramatist of those times.
But it doesn't mean that poets,dramatists and authors of this age were mere imitatos.They just took models from the ancients and then produced their original works which are the glory of English Literature today.
All the best to myself.May God bless all my ,
ReplyDeleteefforts to run it successfully...................
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDelete