The closing moments of the 19th Century saw the emergence of Impressionism in Europe as well as in England. The main effort of the artist in impressionism is in the direction of recreating the experience of the writer and his impressions about reality rather than …
Absurdism found its way through Albert Camus “The Myth of Sisyphus”. He defined the absurd as the tension which emerges from man’s determination to discover purpose and order in a world which refuses to display either. Awareness of this lack of purpose in all, we …
In the twenties, the new interest in psychology turned poets to investigate the hidden impulses of man. Eliot gave currency to internal monologue. It was in psychology and politics that the poets of the thirties led by W.H. Auden sought a solution to the world …
Critical Appreciation of Spring And Fall G.M. Hopkins is a curious literary instance of a poet being far ahead of his times. His poetry is so original in poetic craftsmanship and thought so utterly different in form from Victorian poets that its publication would have …
George Bernard Shaw dominated the literary scene of the later part of the 19th century as a crusader for new ideas. His chief purpose was to emancipate human understanding from the obsessive appeal of emotion and passion. Being an iconoclast Shaw relished the idea of …
PREFIX : A remarkable feature of the flexibility and richness of English vocabulary comes from the use of prefixes and suffixes to form new words from old words or to modify or extend the root idea. In this respect, it bears the close affinity with Germans. …
SHORTENING : Shortening is a method of word formation by which much-used conversation is clipped to one or more of their syllables. It has contributed much to the enrichment of English vocabulary. However, the shortened form and the original form are separate words in spite of …
DERIVATION : Derivation means the formation of a new word out of an old one by adding some prefix or suffix to it. Obviously, this is the commonest form of making new words. Many of the affixes were originally separate words but they are no longer …
