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Romantic Period (1798-1832)

  #William Wordsworth (1770-1850)   1. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads   2. The Lyrical Ballads  3. The prelude(BOOK-1)  4. The excursion  5. Tintern Abbey  6. Immortality Ode  7. Ode on Intimations of immortality   8. Michel  9. The solitary Reaper  10. Laodamia  11. Ode to Duty  12. To Milton  13. The Leech-Gatherer  14. Upon Westminster Abbey  15. The Rainbow  16. We Are Seven  17. To the Cuckoo  18. The Daffodils  19. Lucy Gray  20. Simon Lee  21. Early Spring  22. Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known  23. The World Is Too Much with Us #S.T. Coleridge (1772-1834)   1. Table Talk  2. Aids to Reflection  3. Biographia Liter aria  4. Christabel  5. Kubla Khan  6. The Rime of the Ancient   mariner  7. France: An Od  8. Dejection : An Ode (Ode   to Dejection)  9. Frost at Midnight  10. Destin...

Graham Greene’s Works

Graham Greene’s Works  ● Four major Catholic novels  ● Brighton Rock  ● The Power and the Glory  ● The Heart of the Matter  ● The End of the Affair   ● A Burnt-Out-Case—set in a leper colony  ● Our Man in Havana—satire on contemporary spy novels   The Power and the Glory (1940)  ● Set in the state of Tabasco in Mexico during the 1930s, when the Mexican government   strove to suppress the Catholic Church.  ● The main character is a nameless Roman Catholic ‘whisky priest’, who combines a great power for self-destruction with a desperate quest for dignity.  ● The other main character is a Lieutenant of the police who is given the task of hunting   down this priest. He is a committed socialist who despises everything that the church stands for.

"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller

"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller is a powerful and haunting play that explores the disintegration of the American Dream and the tragic consequences of pursuing a false sense of success and happiness. Set in the 1940s, the story revolves around the life of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life and struggles to distinguish between reality and illusion. Willy Loman is a complex character who embodies the ideals of the American Dream - the belief that hard work and determination will lead to success and prosperity. However, as the play unfolds, it becomes evident that Willy's pursuit of the American Dream has become a futile and destructive obsession. He is haunted by his failures and consumed by delusions of grandeur, desperately clinging to a distorted version of success that isolates him from his family and pushes him to the brink of despair. Through the use of flashbacks and dream sequences, Miller presents a fracture...