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‘The Solitary Reaper’ is a famous lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It describes a Highland girl singing in the field, and the poet reflects on the haunting beauty and lasting emotional impact of her song.
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While the merchant in the title is Antonio, the play centers on the conflict with Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. The themes of religious prejudice, justice, and mercy concerning the Jewish character are central.
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‘Candida’ is a comedy play by George Bernard Shaw. It subverts traditional Victorian notions of love and marriage, focusing on a woman who must choose between her clergyman husband and a young poet.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a key figure of the Romantic Period (roughly 1798–1837). Alongside Wordsworth, he helped launch the movement with ‘Lyrical Ballads’. Pope is Augustan; Dryden is Restoration; Tennyson is Victorian.
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Charles Dickens is famous for personifying London in his novels. He portrays the city as a living, breathing entity that shapes the fates of his characters in works like ‘Bleak House’ and ‘Oliver Twist’.
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This famous quote comes from the Greek philosopher Aristotle in his work ‘Politics’. He argued that humans are naturally social creatures who realize their full potential only within a political community.
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William Wordsworth is universally acknowledged as the ‘Poet of Nature’. He viewed nature as a spiritual teacher and a source of moral and emotional healing, which is the central theme of his poetry.
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‘A Passage to India’ (1924) is a highly acclaimed novel by E.M. Forster. Set in colonial India, it explores the prejudices and misunderstandings between British colonizers and the Indian population.
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While Tagore translated the poems himself, W.B. Yeats wrote the famous introduction and championed the work in the West. In many exam contexts, Yeats is associated with the English version's success.
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W.B. Yeats was primarily a poet and playwright, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. Unlike Dickens, Joyce, and Austen, he is not known for writing novels.