Percy Bysshe Shelley: Radical and Visionary Romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist
By Lechi Eke
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major writer (poetry, prose,
drama, essays) of the Romantic Era; one of...
The Romantic Era
Romanticism is the literary era that succeeded the
Enlightenment period. It was an intellectual movement that rejected almost all
the...
John Milton: Poet, polemist, polyglot, blind and enlightened
In bidding farewell to the Enlightenment Period, and this
moment in time being the beginning of a new year and a new decade,...
Moliere, the Enlightenment Satirist
One of the hottest Enlightenment dramatists in France was
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673) who in order not to embarrass his...
Identify the School of Poetry
This week, we are going to look at some poems and try to identify the school of thought...
The Cavaliers and their Poetry
The Enlightenment Era had three schools of thought or
movements on the British side of the European divide. They...
Addiction is not a bad habit (2)
By Alex Byanyiko
How does something responsible for pleasure result in addiction? How does such addiction turn...
The Puritans and their Literary Works
During the reign of the Bloody Mary (Mary Tudor or Queen Mary 1 of England), a group of...
Addiction is not a bad habit (1)
By Alex Byanyiko
The reason I titled my previous article ‘I Love Drugs, But Not Addiction,’ was...
The Metaphysical Poets
We must understand that although there are literary periods, there are no strict rules about when one ended...
