Allan Poe: Gothic Literature
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, best known for his poems and short stories. He is regarded as the creator of the modern detective...
Macbeth
Macbeth is a tragedy written byWilliam Shakespeare. Set mainly in Scotland, the play dramatises the damaging physical and psychological...
The Canterbury Tales
The Millers Characters: John: wealthy but ignorant old carpenter Alison: John’s wife. Very beautiful and young (18 years old) Nicholas:...
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver’s Travels recounts the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a practical-minded Englishman trained as a surgeon who takes to the seas when...
Frankenstein
Written by: Mary Shelley Type of Work: novel Genres: Gothic Literature; Romantic Movement First Published: In 1818 Setting: Narration...
Anglo Saxon Period
Anglo-Saxon literature (or Old English literature) encompasses literature written in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) during the 600-year...
Romanticism
Romanticism, among other things, stands for a literary renaissance, from 1830 to 1870 in Western Europe and in North America, bringing a...
Figures of speech
Figures of speech: figurative language in the form of a word or phrase. We use it to provide emphasis, give meaning or emotion to our...
Symbolism in poetry
Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal...
Beowulf
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative lines. It is the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is...
