Poems

There is no doubt that Shakespeare is the greatest genius that human nature has yet produced. He was rightly called “our myriad-minded Shakespeare” by the famous critic S.T. Coleridge. Shakespeare is the greatest poet of the world. His most famous plays are Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline. Ben Jonson admired him in the fol

Michael Robartes and The Dancer Michael Robartes and the Dancer is a remarkable book of poems by the Irish poet and Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats. It includes the poems: Michael Robartes and the Dancer, Solomon and the Witch, An Image From A Past Life, Under Saturn, Easter, 1916, The Second Coming, A Prayer for My Daughter, and several other poems. The Second Coming is one of the best poems by Yeats. The first stanza is one of the triumphs of poetry. He will not tolerat

Robert Browning’s famous poetry collection Dramatis Personae includes the poems like James Lee’s Wife, Gold Hair: A Story of Pornic, The Worst of It, Dîs Aliter Visum, Too Late, Abt Vogler, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Death in the Desert, Deaf and Dumb, Prospice and several other poems. Robert Browning’s poetry is famous for his robust optimism. This is evident in his famous lines from Rabbi Ben Ezra: Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. Rabbi Ben Ezra clearly shows that the po

Matthew Arnold as an Elegiac Poet Matthew Arnold is the greatest elegiac poet in the world of poetry. His most famous elegiac poems are The Scholar Gipsy, Thyrsis, Dover Beach, A Summer Night, Rugby Chapel. His elegiac poetry is more than a mere expression pf sorrow. His poetry invariably becomes reflective and philosophical. Poetry according to Matthew Arnold is a criticism of life. This is quite true about his own poetry. Garrod rightly says: “His poetry, profoundly melanch

Irreverent Criticism of John Keats John Keats (1795-1821), one of the greatest Romantic poets who is often compared with Shakespeare due to his phrases charged with a great intensity of imagination, was vehemently criticized by John Gibson Lockhart in Blackwoods Magazine: ““The phrenzy of the "Poems" was bad enough in its way; but it did not alarm us half so seriously as the calm, settled, imperturbable drivelling idiocy of Endymion.” This vituperative and utterly irreverent

Pride and Prejudice The most famous novels by Jane Austen, one of the greatest novelists in the world of literature, are Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. Pride and Prejudice has always been my favorite. The most predominant theme in Pride and prejudice is love and matrimony. The opening lines of Pride and Prejudice are most famous, and strike the keynote of the novel: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, t

Arms and The Man "You’ll find yourself laughing out loud at a 115-year-old play that feels like a piece of contemporary humor" (Rick Pender). Arms and the man by the Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw is one of the most thought provoking plays. It is a play with an impressive moral lesson about Love and War. Shaw affirmed that for the sake of ‘Art for art’s sake’ he won’t write a single line. But to criticize Sjhaw as a propagandist would be an error of perspective. I am sure

"The Wisest, the Brightest and the Meanest of Mankind" Francis Bacon was not only one of the greatest writers, but also a great English statesman, philosopher and politician. The great classical poet Alexander Pope regarded him as “the wisest, the brightest and the meanest of mankind”. Bacon is the Father of English essay. His essays are famous for their wit and aphoristic style. Most of the lines from his essays have always been acclaimed as immortal quotes. For example, we

Spenser masterpiece Fairy Queen is an exraordinary allegory. Dryden aptly remarks about Spenser: “ No man was ever born with a greater genius or more knowledge to support it”. He has been rightly described as the ‘poets’ poet’ as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, the Pre-Raphaelites, and other numberless poets were immensely influenced by him. Spenser was able to finish only six books of the epic, though his aim was to write twelve books. Spenser’s ‘sweet mel

TWO AUTHORS, DIFFERENT GENERATIONS, AND A SINGLE MINDSET: A PEEP AT THE RIGHTFUL KING Igbaba Sunday Ph.D. (Department of Theatre Arts, Nasarawa State University Lafia)   In a world where greed, power, and self-interest have gradually replaced unity, compassion, and communal love, The Rightful King  emerges as a creative torch lighting the path toward reconciliation and peace. Co-written by Nigerian playwright Umar O. Abdul and American writer Kenneth Weene, the play stands as

Creative artists create bridges of understanding, love and peace. Two World Wars, Korean War, Vietnam, Gulf war, Iraq war, War between...

The bilingual and multilingual literature is quite popular in today’s globalized world. In fact, every lover of literature is a bit of a...

In several poems included in 'Lower Hanging Fruit', Newell seems to recall the past, and reinforce it by his intense imagination. The...

The haiku anthology HORIZON includes some of the most inspired, artless and spontaneous haiku by the contemporary poets from different...

Ban’ya Natsuishi has widened the territory of haiku by writing haiku concerned with human condition. He is not confined to nature or...

This is a comprehensive analysis of Azsacra Zarathustra’s philosophy of Emptiness. This breakthrough book gives the key to understand his...

AZSACRA, A POET, A PHILOSOPHER, A MAN Prof. Moshé Liba You read his name AZsacra ZARATHRUSTRA, and you think: here is a Far east Asian...

THE WORLD IN 2050 (AN ESSAY ON THE ISSUES THAT WE WILL FACE) DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRL CHILD The 'mighty hunter myth ' is...

Sorrow and Happiness P. B. Shelley is quite inspiring in the following lines: The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another...

Two haiku about the god soliloquy since the day you beheld god of love no evil shall ever touch you: sons and daughters of light I was...