Monday, 8 August, 2022
Hello,
Here I am going to write a blog on 18th century women poet. Which is assigned by Kavisha Alagiya ma'am.
Write on 18th century women poet :
Female writers of the 18th century often focused on the role of the female imagination in novel writing poetry composition and as an outlet for temporarily escaping a harsh world. Here given some information about 18th century women poet :
∆ Jane Austen (1775-1817):
Jane Austen was born in Hampshire,England, on 16 December 1775. She was an English novelist. She was the daughter of George Austen and Cassandra Austen.Jane Austen was a Georgian era author, best known for her social commentary in novels including 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma'.
Even though Jane Austen lived a short life she is widely considered to be one of the greatest writers in the history of England. During her life, she was forced to publish many of her works under a pen name because women were not expected to write during this time. It wasn't until much later that her work was truly respected and reversed by multiple generations of readers and women writers a like.
∆ Philis Wheatley (1753-1784):
Philis Wheatley Peters, was born on 8 May 1753, in West Africa. She was an American author who is considered the first. She was bought by the Wheatley family of Boston. After she learned to read and write they in encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.
The publication in London of her poem on various subjects, religious and moral on September 1, 1773, they soon died, and she married John peters, a poor grocer. They lost 3 children who did young. Wheatley died in poverty and obscurity at the age of 31.
∆ Mary Barber (1685-1755):
Mary Barber born on 1685, she was a poet and a member of Swift's circle. She married Jonathan Barber, a woollen draper in capel street, Dublin. Her son Rupert Barber She died in or around 1755. Her famous works are:
- A Tale being and Addition to Mr. Gay's Fables
- Tunbrigialia or Tunbridge Miscellaneous
- Poem on several occasions
- Poem by Eminent Ladies
- The widow's Address
∆ Charlotte Smith (1749-1806):
Charlotte Smith was born on 4 May, 1749 in London. Smith received a typical girl's education in a wealthy late 18th century family. At the age of 6, Charlotte went to school in Chichester and took drawing lessons from the painter George Smith. 2 years later she her aunt and her sister moved to London.
She died at Tilford a few months later on 28 October 1806,and was buried at stoke church near Guildford 36 years after Richqrdt Smith.
∆ Mary Leapor (1722-1746):
Mary Leapor was on English poet, born on 26 February 1722, in England. She probably received rudimentary education at either a local dame school or at the local free school in Brackley. like many writers of the period Leapor used a best pastoral sounding 'Mira'.Leapor died on Brackley on 12 November, 1746 at the age of 24.
∆ Meena Alexander (1951-2018):
Meena Alexander was born on 17 February 1951 in Allahabad, India to George and Mary Alexander into a syrian Christian family from Kerala, South India. Her father was a meteorologist for the Indian government and her mother was a homemaker. Meena Alexander was an Indian American poet, scholar and writer. Alexander later lived and work in New York city. where she was a professor of English at Hunter college.
∆ Charlotte Brooke (1740-1793):
Charlotte Brooke was born in Rantavan, Ireland.She was daughter of Lettice Brooke and Henry Brook.From an early age she was attracted to books. while the rest of her family was sleeping, Brooke would go down to the study where she would spend hours reading. Charlotte Brooke was educated by her father Henry Brooke. on 29 March 1793, Charlotte Brooke passed of a malignant fever.
∆ Anne Finch (1661-1720):
Finch was born in April 1661 in Southern England. Her parents were Sir William Kingsmill and Anne Hazlewood, both from old and powerful families. Anne Finch, the countless of winchilsea, was an English poet and courtier in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. She was a major female poet during her lifetime. She authored religious verse and Love lyrics, as well as fables, pastorals, verse plays, odes, songs and occasional poems.
Write in brief about your favourite major/minor writer/ poet of the age:
Here, I am writing a brief note about one famous writer Jonathan Swift.
∆ Jonathan Swift :
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author who is widely regarded as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He wrote essays, poetry, pamphlets, and a novel.
He was Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver’s Travels, he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub and “A Modest Proposal”.
His famous works :
• A Tale of a Tub
• Draper's Latters
• Gulliver's Travela
• A Modest Praposal
A Tale of Tub
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his best. The Tale is a prose parody divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity.
A Tale of a Tub comprises the tale itself, an allegory of the Reformation in the story of brothers Peter, Martin, and Jack as they attempt to make their way in the world, along with various digressions interspersed throughout. Each brother represents one of the primary branches of Christianity in the West.
Tom Jones as a picaresque novel :
The picaresque novel is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but 'appealing hero, usually of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society.
The picaresque is in many ways related to comic epic, the picaresque novel being epical in scope and comic in nature.
∆ Meaning of Picaresque novel :
Picaresque derived from Spanish word "Picaresca" from Picaro that means "Rogue or Rascal" . It is a genre of prose fiction which depicts the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society.
Tom Jones was a Pcaresque Hero in Tom Jones , born in a low birth of unknown family, rejected Molly as a wife, charmed the beauty of Sofia, killed Fitzpatrick of angerness and gone in the jail, at the last moment marry Sofia.Tom Jones adventure was starting when Mr Allworthy banished Tom from his house for is rascal attitude. Tom ready to going Casanova attitude to Mrs Walters in inn,then Lady Bellaston and killed a Fitzpatrick, but ultimately realised from the jail and leter settled to Sofia.
The fact is Tom himself is a picaresque hero from the viewpoint of the critics.He is the epitome of Unheroes. He is notorious for beating up his mates through this justifiable on the ground of his innate nature . His adventurous nature also reveals itself in his breaking his arms while trying to prevent sofia's accident on a house but his voracious sexual appetite would certainly entitle him to the rank of a Picaresque Hero . Even while being a enamored of Sophia and in in spite of the reciprocating his love, Tom is guilty of indulging sexually with the game keeper's daughter's Molly.
Tom was a orphan who did not know the real identity of his if it come out at the end of the novel.His voracious sexual appetite break down his life slowly but steadily and his hot temper attitude met him in jail , after that, he understood what was the meaning of happiness, peace and life through out in the Picaresque Novel as Picaresque Hero.
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