Samuvel Sankari

                Samuel Johnson was born on 1709. He was a great poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Some of the major works of Samuel Johnson are “A Dictionary of the English Language”, “A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland”, Lives of Poets” “The Vanity of Human Wishes” and so on.                 “Lives of the Poets” or the “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets” was published in 1779. This essay contains short biographies of 53 poets and they are arranged on the basis of the date of death of the poets. The biographies of the poets are divided into three distinct parts. The first part consists of the poet’s life, the second part consists of the character traits of the poets and the third part gives a critical assessment of his major poems.            ...

  Virginia Woolf one of the greatest English writers was born on 1882. She was a novelist, essayist and critic. She was a major 20 th century novelist and one of the main exponents of the Stream of Consciousness Technique. Some of her important works are “A Room of One’s Own”, “To the Lighthouse”, “The Waves” and much more. “Modern Fiction”, one of her major critical essay was written in 1919 and was published in 1921. It was published in a series of short stories called “Monday or Tuesday”. This essay is a criticism of writers and literature from the previous generations. It also acts as a guide for writers of modern fiction. According to Virginia Woolf the modern art is not in any way improved that the olden art. Even when there was not much tools the older generation authors, like Fielding and Jane Austen were far more superior to the modern writers. Their art had a strange sense of simplicity. She tells that in the modern day’s people even learnt about the motor car and ...

  “Beau Tibbs at Home” was written by Oliver Goldsmith. He is an Irish novelist who was born on 1728 and died on 1774. He is a great essayist, poet, dramatist and novelist. Some of his major works are “The Vicar of Wakefield”, “The Deserted Village”, “She Stoops to Conquer”, “Citizen of the World”.                 This essay “Beau Tibbs at Home” was taken from the prose “The Citizen of the World” and was published in 1760. It was published as a series of letters. Goldsmith has created many characters impressive characters through this prose. Beau Tibbs is one such character.   All this letters is from the point of view of a Chinese Traveller named Lein Chi Altangi. The author satirizes the manners and the customs of the English Society through this essay.                 The Chinese Traveller loves jovial company. While he wa...