Elizabeth Barrett Browning broke many conventions for her time and traversed a path that had nothing to do with already recognized styles. Elizabeth Barrett was valued for her experimental ways and was even considered for the title of Poet Laureate,…
Walt Whitman is regarded as one of the greatest writers of America. He takes his place amongst the greats of English language literature like Dante and William Shakespeare. A fine writer of the transcendentalism and realism movement, Whitman wrote on varied themes of love,…
Kamala Das validates me for being a woman. She validates my fears and follies of love. She validates my paralyzing need to be with someone and then going through the separation anxiety. Kamala speaks for not only mine but for…
John Donne is the greatest English love poet and unparallel metaphysical poet. John Donne outpoured poetry about his life and circumstances, consciousness and inquisition. His earlier work used to circulate in manuscript within a small group of enthusiasts. Most of his…
The Mona Lisa is one of the most renowned legacies that the genius Leonardo Da Vinci left behind.Painted intermittently between 1503-1517, the Italian Renaissance masterpiece, five centuries since its creation has become the “best known, the most visited, the most…
Oscar Wilde was one of the most prominent figures of the late 19th century. A poet and a playwright, Wilde was well known for his knowledge, wit, ideas, and the flamboyant lifestyle he led claiming “you can never be overdressed or…
Thomas Hardy is a name that leaves a lasting impression, among the litterateurs and poets of the modern period and more particularly, the span of the threshold of Modernism. In prose and poetry, Hardy has managed to achieve the status…
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I…
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” ~ Mark Twain The American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist Samuel Langhorn Clemens, born in Missouri, Florida (November 30, 1835). After the death of his father, at…
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are necessary to Human existence” The marriage of heaven and hell (1790-93), William Blake He sees contraries as essential to the state of man. Along with…