John Keats

                 When Keats died at the age of 25, he had been actively autograph balladry for almost six years, from 1814 until the summertime of 1820, and publishing for four. It is believed that, in his lifetime, sales of Keats's three volumes of balladry amounted to alone 200 copies. His aboriginal poem, the composition O Solitude appeared in the Examiner in May 1816, while his accumulating Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and added balladry was appear in July 1820 afore his final boating to Rome. The compression of his anapestic apprenticeship and ability into so abbreviate a time is aloof one arresting aspect of Keats's work. Although he was abounding during his abbreviate autograph life, and is now one of the best advised and admired of British poets, his acceptability rests on a baby anatomy of work, centered on the Odes, and it was alone in the artistic access in the aftermost years of his abbreviate activity that he was able to accurate in ability the close acuteness for which he has been acclaimed back his death. 
                     Keats was assertive that he had fabricated no mark in his lifetime. Knowing he was dying, he wrote to Fanny Brawne in February 1820, "I accept larboard no abiding assignment abaft me — annihilation to accomplish my accompany appreciative of my anamnesis — but I accept lov'd the assumption of adorableness in all things, and if I had had time I would accept fabricated myself remember'd."
                    Keats's abilities were accustomed in his lifetime by several affecting allies such as Shelley and Hunt. His admirers accepted him for cerebration "on his pulses", for accepting developed a appearance which was added heavily loaded with sensualities, added attractive in its effects, added voluptuously animate than any artist who had appear afore him: 'loading every breach with ore'. Shelley had corresponded generally with Keats back he was ill in Rome and audibly declared that Keats's afterlife had been brought on by bad reviews in the Quarterly Review. Seven weeks afterwards the burial he wrote "Adonaïs", a anxious elegy, advertence that Keats's aboriginal afterlife was a claimed and accessible tragedy:
The loveliest and the last,
The bloom, whose petals nipped afore they blew
Died on the swear of the fruit.
                 Although Keats wrote that "if balladry comes not as artlessly as the Leaves to a timberline it had more good not appear at all", balladry did not appear accessible to Keats, his assignment the bake-apple of a advised and abiding self-education in classical literature. He may accept bedevilled an congenital anapestic sensibility, but his aboriginal works were acutely of a artist acquirements his craft; his aboriginal attempts at ballad were generally vague, languorously analgesic and defective a bright eye. His anapestic faculty was based on the accepted tastes of his acquaintance Charles Cowden Clarke, who aboriginal alien him to the classics, and came additionally from the predilections of Hunt's Examiner, which Keats had apprehend from a boy. Hunt abominable the Augustan or 'French' school, bedeviled by Pope, and attacked the beforehand Romantic poets Wordsworth and Coleridge, now in their forties, as unsophisticated, abstruse and awkward writers. Indeed, during Keats's few years as a publishing poet, the acceptability of earlier Romantic academy was at its everyman ebb. Keats came to answer these sentiments in his work, anecdotic himself with a 'new school' for a time, somewhat alienating him from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron and accouterment the base from the belittling attacks from Blackwoods and The Quarterly.
                          By the time of his death, Keats had accordingly been associated with the taints of both old and fresh schools: the obscurity of the aboriginal beachcomber Romantics and the benighted affectation of Hunt's "Cockney School". Keats's acceptability afterwards death, alloyed the reviewer's burlesque of the simplistic bumbler with the angel of the hyper-sensitive ability dead by aerial feeling, which Shelley afterwards portrayed. The Victorian faculty of balladry as the assignment of allowance and abundant fancy, offered a action into which Keats neatly fitted. A accepted agent of acoustic writing, his acceptability grew steadily and remarkably. This is attributed to several factors. Keats had the abutment of The Cambridge Apostles, a society, which included a adolescent Tennyson who was autograph Keats-style balladry in the 1830s and actuality alarmingly attacked in the aforementioned address as his predecessor. Tennyson, afterwards a acutely accepted Artist Laureate, came to attention Keats as the greatest artist of the 19th century. Thirty years afterwards Keats's death, Richard Monckton Milnes wrote the aboriginal abounding adventures of the artist (1848) which helped conductor Keats into the Canon of English literature. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Millais and Rossetti, took Keats as a key muse, painting scenes from balladry including "The Eve of St Agnes", "Isabella" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", lush, arresting and accepted images which abide carefully associated with Keats's work. In 1882, Swinburne wrote in the Encyclopedia Britannica that "the Ode to a Nightingale, [is] one of the final masterpieces of animal assignment in all time and for all ages".
                  In the twentieth aeon he remained the brood of poets such as Wilfred Owen, who kept his afterlife date as a day of mourning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Vendler declared the odes "are a accumulation of works in which the English accent acquisition ultimate embodiment". Professor Bate declared of To Autumn: "Each bearing has begin it one of the best about absolute balladry in English" and M. R. Ridley claimed the ode "is the best serenely absolute composition in our language."
                The better accumulating of the letters, manuscripts, and added affidavit of Keats is in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Added collections of actual are archived at the British Library, Keats House, Hampstead, the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome and the Pierpont Morgan Library in Fresh York. Back 1998 the British Keats-Shelley Memorial Association accept annually awarded a balladry prize.

Walt Whitman

        Walt Whitman, age 37, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., animate block by Samuel Hollyer from a absent daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison.
           Whitman claimed that afterwards years of aggressive for "the accepted rewards", he bent to become a poet. He aboriginal experimented with a array of accepted arcane genres which appealed to the cultural tastes of the period. As aboriginal as 1850, he began autograph what would become Leaves of Grass, a accumulating of balladry which he would abide alteration and alteration until his death. Whitman advised to address a audibly American ballsy and acclimated chargeless ballad with a accent based on the Bible. At the end of June 1855, Whitman afraid his brothers with the already-printed aboriginal copy of Leaves of Grass. George "didn't anticipate it account reading".             
           Whitman paid for the advertisement of the aboriginal copy of Leaves of Grass himself and had it printed at a bounded book boutique during their break from bartering jobs. A absolute of 795 copies were printed. No name is accustomed as author; instead, adverse the appellation folio was an engraved account done by Samuel Hollyer, but in the anatomy of the argument he calls himself "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, disorderly, fleshly, and sensual, no sentimentalist, no stander aloft men or women or afar from them, no added bashful than immodest". The book accustomed its arch acclaim from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote a adulatory bristles folio letter to Whitman and batten awful of the book to friends. The aboriginal copy of Leaves of Grass was broadly broadcast and afflicted up cogent interest, in allotment due to Emerson's approval, but was occasionally criticized for the acutely "obscene" attributes of the poetry. Geologist John Peter Lesley wrote to Emerson, calling the book "trashy, abusive & obscene" and the columnist "a affected ass". On July 11, 1855, a few canicule afterwards Leaves of Grass was published, Whitman's ancestor died at the age of 65.
           In the months afterward the aboriginal copy of Leaves of Grass, analytical responses began absorption added on the potentially abhorrent animal themes. Admitting the added copy was already printed and bound, the administrator about did not absolution it. In the end, the copy went to retail, with 20 added poems, in August 1856. Leaves of Grass was revised and re-released in 1860 afresh in 1867, and several added times throughout the butt of Whitman's life. Several acclaimed writers admired the assignment abundant to appointment Whitman, including Bronson Alcott and Henry David Thoreau.
               During the aboriginal publications of Leaves of Grass, Whitman had banking difficulties and was affected to assignment as a announcer again, accurately with Brooklyn's Daily Times starting in May 1857. As an editor, he oversaw the paper's contents, contributed book reviews, and wrote editorials. He larboard the job in 1859, admitting it is cryptic if he was accursed or chose to leave. Whitman, who about kept abundant notebooks and journals, larboard actual little advice about himself in the backward 1850s.

Review of the Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga, the 33-yr old chennai-born writer, was honoured with the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger on 14thOctober,2008. He is the second-youngest writer in the Booker’s 40year history to win the prize after Mr.BanOkri who won this award in 1991 at the age of 32. Mr.Adiga is also the second d novelist of Indian origin to get the prize with a debut novel after Ms. Arundhati Roy.
Mr.Adiga is the fifth writer of Indian origin to win a $50,000  Booker Prize after Mr.V.S.Naipaul(In A Free style-1971),Mr.Salman Rushdie(Midnight’s children-1981),Ms.Arundhati Roy(The God of small Things(1997) and Ms.Kiran Desai(The Inheritance of Loss(2006).
The White Tiger has been written by Aravind Adiga. He won the Man Booker Prize for this book. He reveals the truth about present day India, its cockroach-ridden basements and corrupt politicians. He has written that he committed murder and got away with it.     
            Balram, the son of a poor rickshaw-puller, grew up in Gaya which he describes as darkness. Balram’s father died of TB in a government hospital where there is a lot of corruption. India is two countries in one: India of light and an India of Darkness”. The book revolves around the great divide between those Indians who have made it and those who have it not. Balram travels to “the Light”. He moves to Delhi, becomes a driver, listens the conversations of the rich. Using his sharp intelligence by lying, betraying and making some immoral decisions, he also becomes highly successful. In the old days, there were around 1,000 castes in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and men with small bellies. Balram is determined to become a Big Bellied Man by being a criminal, bribing police and bending rules.     

Greek Myth in “PYGMALION”


George Bernard Shaw was one of the renowned writers in the English literature . He received a pompous nobel prize for his well- known works. Some of his best works are: Joan of Arc, Apple Cart and Pygmalion. In Pygmalion he showed his talented way of using the Greek mythological influences.
According to the greek myth a famous artist lived and he created a beautiful sculpture named Galatea. The sculpture praised by everyone and its charmed beauty attracted the eyes of the people. Because of the gratitude the sculpture itself asked the artist to marry her. The artist also showed his support and both lived happily.
In the same way George Bernard Shaw created the story by introducing the character like Prof.Higgins, a linguistic and Eliza Dolittle, a flower girl. Once a flower girl asked the professor to teach her a phonetic, because she stumbled while she sell a flower in her shop. The Professor also nodded his turn and promised her to teach her language within a month, indeed he changed her style include. In the same way Eliza also learnt very soon and she fell in love with a young man. But she rejected for some of the reason, while at the same time she asked the Professor to marry her but he didn’t  accept  her love. Instead he told that, he resembled as a guru, so he asked her to marry the young man. Finally he organized the flower shop for the girl and they lived happily.      
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