Louis from 1898 to 1905, young Eliot received a classical education privately and at Smith Academy, originally named Eliot Academy, where his studies included Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German. ... He discovered Dante and heard talk of reviving poetic drama. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 4134
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Eliot's study of the poetry of Dante, of the English writers John Webster and John Donne, and of the French symbolist Jules Laforgue, along with the influence of his new tutor-guide Bergson, helped the young poet to find his own style - unique, though close to that of the imagists. ... From 1911 to 1914 Eliot was back at Harvard, USA, reading Indian philosophy and studying Sanskrit, but then he returned to France. After several years of residence in Europe and studies in Paris, in Munich, and at Merton College in Oxford, where he went to in August 1914 (after the World War I had broken ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Early poems began as part of an oral tradition, from folk songs to focusing on uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy. ... While studying literature, you will notice that poems comes in many, many different forms. ...

• Word Count: 792
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Ancient Greek thought held that poetry, drama, and other forms of fine art were imitations of reality, a reality that could be actual or potential. ...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cummings grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his father was a sociology professor at Harvard and a noted Unitarianclergyman. Demonstrating a strong interest in poetry and art from an early age, Cummings enjoyed the full support and encouragement of his parents. He attended Harvard from 1911 t...

• Word Count: 1201
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These poems Johannes Agricola and Porphyria's Lover, are objective studies in morbid psychology. ... In Pippa Passes 1841 we find Browning using an experimental form which is closer to the dramatic monologue than to legitimate drama. ...

• Word Count: 1263
• Approx Pages: 5

Eliot - a poem I enjoyed at the age of seventeen - with Milton's Lycidas, which I had to study (and also enjoyed) when I was sixteen. ... Here is what I said When you compare any two pieces of writing (or music or painting or drama or cake), you are going to be looking at similarities and differences. ...

• Word Count: 1070
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In 1899, Arthur Symons, one of the poetic 'aesthetes' of the 1890s, published his study The Symbolist Movement in Poetry, which would have great influence on modern poets like W.B. ... After the hostile reception of his tragic and bitter novel Jude the Obscure in 1895, he devoted himself largely to poetry and poetic drama until his death in 1928. ...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

From the constant movement of an array of colorful characters, shifting landscapes, social dramas are created which embodied the ideals of the beat generation.... Upon entering high school, Ginsberg escaped his decaying home life by diving into his studies. ...

• Word Count: 4095
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School