LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Johnson responded most favourably to the works of poets from Dryden to Pope and was skeptical of those produced in his own generation, including the poetry of Gray, Collins, and Shenstone, though he admired Gray’s An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.
Detailed explanation-3: -Today is the feast day of Caedmon, the first known English poet. As well as being the first named poet in the English literary tradition, he is also a significant figure in the history of people who hate singing in public, people who develop new talents later in life, and of cowherds.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rabindranath Tagore. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar. Sarojini Naidu. Kabir. Mirabai. 21-Mar-2022
Detailed explanation-5: -Shakespeare. Rudyard Kipling. Robert Burns. Oscar Wilde. John Milton. John Keats. Charlotte Bronte. Charles Dickens. More items •21-Mar-2017