John Dryden (9 Aug 1631 – 30 April 1700), nicknamed Town-Bayes, an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England.
Born in the village rectory of Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The eldest of 14 children of Eramus Dryden and Mary Pickering – an Parliamentary supporting family with Puritan learnings.
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poem, in fact, is a protest against the harm that society causes its children by exploiting them for labor of this kind. In each case the dramatic irony arises from the poet's knowing more or seeing more than the child does, but in each case also the boy's ignorance testifies to his good heart and likable innocence.
The dream in lines 11-20 is obviously a wish-fulfillment dream, though Blake wou
Modern person is accustomed to life of adaptation and identity crisis in peculiar circumstance of modern civilization not to know to know. I am known that this is estrangement on industrial society, or Identity crisis. It is satirical poem about being "Cotton = nopersonality" modern person.
poem): 의사영웅시, 의서사시
- 17-18C에 유행
- 저속한 주제에 격조 높은 문체사용
- 영웅의 공적을 노래한 서사시 heroic poetry를 희화화한 parody풍의 시를 말한다
A type of satire: 하찮고 보잘 것 사람이나 사건을 비범하고 영웅적으로 그려냄
위 작품에서 Homer의 epic 에있는 캐릭터들을 모방함
귀족 남녀
Donne was born in London, into a Roman Catholic
family when practice of
that religion was illegal in
England.
Early Life
It is thought that his final
illness was stomach cancer,
although this has not been
proven. He died on 31 March 1631 having written many
poems, most only in manuscript. Donne was buried in old St Paul`s Cathedral.