Dryden is absolutely a multidimensional genius. He is acclaimed as a major poet, a distinguished playwright a celebrated critic and a great satirist on the basis of his literary works. Dryden’s...
Category: Poetry
Fight between The Red Cross Knight and the Monster Error in “The Faerie Queene” by Edmund Spenser
“The Faerie Queene” is an allegorical narrative of adventure and chivalry. The characters in this poem as well as the situations in which they find themselves bear symbolic significance. The Red...
Spenser’s allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is a remarkable literary venture of the Elizabethan age. In fact, allegory was the most popular literary device of the time and he uses it to express...
Critical Appreciation of “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
Introduction The poem, “To His Coy Mistress” is the masterpiece of the love poetry ever written by my favorite metaphysical poet, Andrew Marvell. Though he has not written that many of love...
The Idea of Mysticism as Portrayed in Henry Vaughan’s Poetry
Henry Vaughan, a mystical Welsh doctor started writing poetry in the style of John Donne and followed his platonic love poetry in his early poems which were secular by nature. But illness detached...
Comment on Andrew Marvell’s Treatment of Love in His Love-Poetry
Love, as in the other metaphysical poets plays a significant role in Marvell’s poetry. It has been said that one of three themes is love and it occupies a considerable portions of his poetry. In...