British Literature

“The Fire Sermon” is the third and one of the most significant sections of The Waste Land, the landmark modernist poem written by T. S. Eliot and published in 1922.

“A Game of Chess” is a device used by Middleton in the play entitled “Women beware Women” where this game is played to hide the seduction of a young girl by a noble man.

“The Burial of the Dead” is the opening and one of the most significant sections of The Waste Land (1922), the masterpiece of modern English poetry by T. S. Eliot.

The Waste Land (1922) stands as the defining achievement of T. S. Eliot and one of the greatest landmarks of twentieth-century English literature.

The poem “Come into the Garden Maud” is a love poem in a series of lyrics entitled “Maud; a Monodrama.”

Although Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) is often mistakenly associated with the early nineteenth century, he actually belongs to the late Victorian period of the nineteenth century.

The sonnet entitled “Thou Art Indeed Just Lord” was written on March 17, 1889. During that time, the poet was suffering from a sense of utter despair because he remained unsuccessful in the sphere of composing good and impressive poem.

The poem “Pied Beauty” is a “Curtal” Sonnet with ten and one half lines. It is a devotional poem in the form of lyric.

Thomas Hardy’s “Channel Firing” is one of the most remarkable anti-war poems of the early twentieth century.