We have to answer some basic questions when we study theory of literature. ... What is literary study? ... On the other hand, literary study is knowledge about literature itself. ... But these efforts only make literature and literary study come to a very complicated relation. ... It was a must to note that language is a human creation contained cultural heritages of linguistic group. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As Eliot was often isolated, his love of literature developed. ... He returned to Harvard in 1911 studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit. But in 1914 he went abroad again on a Harvard fellowship to study in Germany. ... His study of Bradley, however, contributed to his thought and prose style. ... In an attempt to keep poetry alive he gave the world extraordinary works of literature. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The biography of Phyllis Wheatley says, "Responding to early indications of intellectual precociousness in Phyllis, the Wheatley family encouraged her to study the Bible and to read English and Latin literature, history, and geography." ... For instance, line 25 of To Maecenas, " soon the same beauties should my mind adorn, and the same ardors in my soul should burn: then should my song in bolder notes arise, and all my numbers pleasingly surprise- As these lines indicate, Phyllis had a passion to write well as a poet and surprise her white peers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any previous period. ... Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, histor...

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Robert Frost was considered the "most popular modern American poet of the twentieth century" (Literature Online 1). ... Nevertheless, he has, even after his death, remained as "one of the greatest, if not the very greatest, of modern American poets" (Literature Online 1). ... Frost spent many of his years farming, which is perhaps where he acquired his "Popular image as a farmer-poet" (Literature Online 1). ... He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. ... "Frost may be a painter of charming postcard scenes and a front-porch philosopher dispensing consolation and crack...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, upon further study, I found the poem is actually about a letter written by a Martian sent to his origins. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
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• Grade Level: High School

He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England Transcendentalism and English Romanticism. ...

• Word Count: 1201
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, upon further study, I found the poem is actually about a letter written by a Martian sent to his origins. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School