ENGLISH NOTES

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 pioneer of the liberal classicism. This liberalism was his first great quality an

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 greatness. Keats has poetic passion and he became a

GRIMM'S LAW                                                                                                                                                  

THEME OF WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD                                        

STEPHEN SPENDER                                                         

DYLAN THOMAS