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GOD'S GRANDEUR BY G.M.HOPKINS                      This poem was written in February 1877 by G.M.HOPKINS. This meterically unusual sonnet exemplifies Hopkin's flexible craftsmanship in blending the line to the precise configuration of his thought. In order to express emotional intensity, sometimes two stressed syllables are brought close together. The central thought of the poem is that, despite what man has done to the world, it proclaims the Grandeur of God's creation.

LINGUISTICS:        DEFINITION OF LINGUISTICS:  The word 'Linguistics' has been derived from Latin lingua (tongue) and istics (knowledge or science). Etymologically, therefore, linguistics is the scientific study of language. It studied the human language as a universal and recognizable part of human behaviour. It attempts to describe and analyse language. Its aim is to seek a scientific understanding of the place of language in human life, the way in which it is organized to fulfill the needs its serves, and the functions it performs. Linguistics, then is a field which classifies the pronunciation, grammar, meaning, and use of language and hence provides terminology to talk about these matters. SCOPE OF LINGUISTICS:  A full understanding of the various components of language and their relations with the rest of the world outside language, thus, would constitute the right scope of linguistics languages have the unique characteristic called creativ...

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JOHN DRYDEN                     Dryden's contributions to English criticism are significant and spectacular. His genius is myriad and his achievements are tremendous. Dryden was a great poet, a great satirist, a great dramatist and a great critic. He found English language brick and made it marble. Dryden is rightly called the father of English criticism. It was Dryden and Dryden alone who thought to determine upon the principles of the merit of composition. Dryden did not take the comprehensive views of literature as a hole nor did he write on the problems connected with it. He was the first English critic who took the criticism seriously and thought deeply over all the problems connected with literature. He wrote brilliant appreciations of the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Fletcher and Ben Jonson.             The most important quality of Dryden as a critic was his liberal outlook was the pionee...

JOHN KEATS:             Keats was the last born of romantic and first to die within a very brief span of his poetic career. Keats reached the summit of renown. Keats is considered to be a poet's poet. Tenny son and browning were influenced by Keats. Keats is loved and admired as a great sensuous poet. His victorious and pictureque qualities have been imitated by the victorian and the modern poets. It is his variety of style and honesty of impression that earned for his poetic greatness. Keats's reputation has been steadily growing in 20th century. Romantic poets have been severally criticized but critics dropped their pen while criticizing Keats. Keats's poetic genius and his ceaseless search for truth won the admiration of all the critics. Keats like Spenser is callaed poet's poet.            Keats composed epics, lyrics, sonnets, narrative tales and odes. His six great odes are enough to establish his poetic greatnes...