Main Literary Articles on English Literature

   Background to English Literature

• What is literature?
• History of English literature
• Different types of literature
• What is literary English?
• How to answer a literary question?
• Shakespearean tragedy
• Greek tragedy versus Shakespearean tragedy

   Poetry and its Different Types

• What is a sonnet?
• What is metaphysical poetry?
• What is iambic pentameter?
• What is heroic couplet?
• Characteristics of heroic couplet

   Figures of Speech and Literary Terms

• Figurative language in English literature
• Definition and examples of simile
• Definition and types of irony
• Literary terms used in English drama
• Three dramatic Unities: Unity of action, time and place

   Greek Literature | Plato and Aristotle

• Plato’s Attack on Poetry
• Aristotle’s Defense of Poetry
• Introduction to Poetics by Aristotle
• Chapter Wise Summary of Poetics
• Aristotle’s Concept of Tragedy
• Aristotle’s Ideal Tragic Hero
• Aristotle’s Views on a Tragic Plot
• Aristotle’s Concept of Tragic Catharsis
• 03 Kinds of Plot | Simple, Complex, Tragic
• Greek Tragedy vs. Shakespearean Tragedy
• Why Tragedy is Superior to Epic According to Aristotle

   Sophocles: Oedipus The King

• Summary of Oedipus the King
• Introduction to characters in Oedipus the King
• Characters analysis of Oedipus: A tragic hero
• Role of fate in Oedipus the King
• Difference between Greek tragedies and Shakespearian tragedy

   Sir Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to Canterbury Tales

• Introduction to the life of Geoffrey Chaucer
• Geoffrey Chaucer as realist
• Introduction to the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
• Summary of General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
• Short introduction to 29 pilgrims in Canterbury Tales
• Chaucer’s attitude towards religion
• Religious characters in Canterbury Tales
• Female characters in Canterbury Tales

   William Shakespeare: Othello

• Introduction to Othello
• Introduction to characters in Othello
• Act wise summary of Othello
• Character analysis of Desdemona
• Major themes in Othello
• Characteristics of Shakespearean tragedy
• Greek tragedy versus Shakespearean tragedy

   Shakespearean Sonnets: 

• Sonnet18 | Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
• Sonnet 27 | Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
  
• Sonnet 34 | Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
• Sonnet 40 | Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
• Sonnet 42 | That thou hast her it is not all my grief
• Sonnet 53 | What is your substance, whereof are you made
• Sonnet 54 | O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
• Sonnet 104 | To my friend you can never be old
• Sonnet 116 | Let me not to the marriage of true minds
• Sonnet 130 | My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

   Alexander Pope: The Rape of the lock

• Introduction to Rape of the Lock
• Major themes in Rape of the Lock
• Character analysis of Belinda
• Rape of the Lock as a social satire
• Rape of the Lock as a mock heroic epic
• What is heroic couplet?
• Characteristics of Heroic couplet
• Pope’s use of heroic couplet

   Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

• Introduction and background to Pride and Prejudice
• What does Pride and Prejudice mean?
• Introduction to main characters in Pride and Prejudice
• Summary of Pride and Prejudice
• Comparative analysis of five Bennet sisters
• Character analysis of Elizabeth Bennet
• Character analysis of Fitzwilliam Darcy
• Why Elizabeth Bennet rejects Mr. Collins’ proposal?
• Why Charlotte Lucas marries Mr. Collins?
• Famous quotes from Pride and Prejudice

   Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

• Introduction to “A Tale of Two Cities”
• Introduction to main characters in A Tale Of Two Cities
• Long summary of A Tale of Two Cities
• Symbolic Significance of Characters
• Symbolism in A Tale of Two Cities

   Old Man and the Sea

• Introduction and summary of “The Old Man and the Sea”
• Main characters and their analysis in “The Old Man and the sea”
• Theme of the novel “The Old man and the sea”
• Symbolism in “The old man and the sea”
• Quotations used in the novel “The old man and the sea”

   Animal Farm (George Orwell)

• Introduction and plot overview of Animal Farm
• Animal characters in Animal Farm
• Summary of Animal Farm
  
• Three anthems of Animal Farm: Beasts of England
• Character Analysis of Old Major

   Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe

• Brief Story of Things Fall Apart
• Characters in Things Fall Apart
• Long summary of Things Fall Apart
• Character Analysis of Okonkwo : A Tragic Hero
• Main Themes in Things Fall Apart

   Heart of Darkness

• Introduction and plot overview of Heart of Darkness
• Personal Background of Joseph Conrad
• Summary of Heart of Darkness
• Main characters in Heart of Darkness
• Theme of imperialism in Heart of Darkness
•  Character Analysis of Mr. Kurtz

   Arthur Miller: The Crucible

• Introduction and historical background to The Crucible
• Main characters in the play The Crucible
• Summary of the play The Crucible
• Character analysis of Abigail Williams
• Character analysis of John Proctor

   William Golding: Lord of the Flies

• Introduction and brief story of Lord of the Flies
• Introduction to main characters in Lord of the Flies
• Summary of the Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Character analysis of Ralph and Jack

   John Donne: Metaphysical Poetry

• John Donne as a metaphysical poet
• What is metaphysical poetry?
• The Sun Rising (Summary and Analysis)
• Go and Catch a Falling Star (Summary & Analysis)
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (Summary & Analysis)
• The Good Morrow

   William Wordsworth

• William Wordsworth as a romantic poet of nature
• Daffodils by William Wordsworth
• The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth

   Robert Frost’ Poems

• Summary and Analysis of The Road Not Taken
• Summary and Analysis of After Apple Picking
• Summary and Analysis of Mending Wall
• Structuralist Analysis of Fire and Ice

   John Keats’ Poems

• Summary and Analysis of Ode to A Nightingale
• Summary and Analysis of ode to Autumn
• Summary and Analysis of Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Summary and Analysis of Ode on Melancholy
• Summary and Analysis of Ode to Psyche
• Summary and Analysis of Ode on Indolence

   William Blake

• William Blake as a Visionary Poet
• Summary and Analysis of A Poison Tree
• Summary and Analysis of The Divine Image 
• Summary and Analysis of Holy Thursday
• Summary and Analysis of The Sick Rose
• Summary and Analysis of The Chimney Sweeper
• Summary and Analysis of The Tiger (The Tyger)
• Summary and Analysis of The Little Black Boy

   Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poems

• Summary and Analysis of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
• Summary and Analysis of Ode to the West Wind
• Summary and Analysis of England in 1819
• Summary and Analysis of “To a Skylark”
• Summary and Analysis of Ozymandias
• Summary and Analysis of Queen Mab

   William Davies

• The poem Leisure by William Davies

   John Ashbery’s Poems

• The Painter by John Ashbery
• Melodic Train by John Ashbery

   Richard Wilbur’s Poems

• Still Citizen Sparrow
• After The Last Bulletin

Aristotle's Poetics

William Shakespeare

John Donne

John Keats

W. Wordsworth

Robert Frost

Richard Wilbur

John Ashbery

William Blake

Metaphysical Poetry

Oedipus The King

Old Man and the Sea

Othello

A Tale of Two Cities

Lord of the Flies

Pride and Prejudice

The Crucible

Animal Farm

Things Fall Apart

Heart of Darkness

Background to Literature

Prologue to Canterburytales

The Rape of the Lock

Figures of Speech

Language Teaching Methods

Creative Writing

Name Poetry

William Davies

Linguistics

Literary English