In the seventh stanza we are presented with the powerful image of the Biblical tale of the Israelite Ruth caught in Egypt longing for her home. ... Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion A strong comparison that can be drawn between Lines and Ode to a Nightingale is the use of the countryside, or nature, as an escape from the industrial, man-made, "din of towns and cities" as it is referred to by the speaker in Lines. ... This notion is presented clearly in Lines when the speaker states that a person in ...

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Discuss this statement with reference to TWO texts studied this year- one pre-1900 and one twentieth century. ... Two main texts that share the enduring quality that still makes them popular today are "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, a pre-1900 text, and "Harry Potter" byJ.K.Rowling, a twentieth century text "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a quintessential example of a text relating to the "quest" genre. ... During the industrialisation age, focus was on city life, materialism, poverty and oppression. ... Truth and beauty are two of the noblest and most nebulous causes found in history....

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Beckford is chiefly remembered today for the Gothic romance Vathek, a bizarre tale about the adventures of the shockingly cruel Caliph Vathek. ... He was also the author of several books of travel and two burlesques on the sentimental novels of his day, The Elegant Enthusiast (1796) and Azemia (1797). ... In 1724 he opened the first Anglican church in Connecticut at Stratford, remaining its minister until 1754, when he became the first president of an Anglican institution, King's College (now Columbia), in New York City. ...

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The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. ... His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale of a search for buried treasure on a South Carolina island lV. ... In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) attracted little interest. ...

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Once he learned to read, the young boy immediately became obsessed with books and was completely absorbed in tales depicting savages, the Wild West, or Mark Twain's thrill-seeking Tom Sawyer. ... He also published three short stories in 1905, "Birds of Prey," "A Tale of a Whale," and "The Man Who Was King." ... This city had a monumental and life-altering impact on Eliot for multiple reasons, the most significant of which was his introduction to the influential literary figure  Ezra Pound. ... The marriage was not successful, in part because of Vivienne's health issues: the two s...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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