Basics of Literature

Metaphysical poetry emerged in the 17th century as a revolt against the contemporary fashion of poetry. It reacted against the...

The Morality or Miracle plays have been based mainly on the Bible stories, carried out in or close to the...

The University Wits were a group of well-educated scholars who wrote within the last years of the sixteenth century. All...

Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913, in Mondovi, a small village near the seaport city of Bone in...

Romanticism or romantic era, typically, is the expression when it comes to art of sharpened emotional sensibilities and heightened imaginative emotions....

Neoclassicism means the revival of classical concepts. Now, each work of art has two elements, form & substance. When the...

The Renaissance denotes the gradual enlightenment of the human thoughts after the darkness of middle ages. The term Renaissance is...

"All art is quite useless”. This statement of Oscar Wilde is in his "Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray",...