English Language And Literature

The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a seminal work in the English literature history. It is regarded as a vivid gallery of mediaeval England for its depiction of social hierarchy of the country. General Prologue is one part of Canterbury Tales and forms the outline. It was composed in 858 lines. It was written around 1380 to 1392. In General Prologue, a group of pilgrims are taking a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury. There are 30 pilgrims in the group The narrator is Geoffrey Chaucer himself. They resume their pilgrimage from Tabard Inn in Southwark. As in the prologue, each pilgrimage is supposed to tell two stories: one on the way to the shrine and one on the way back each.  In the prologue, the narrator gives the picture of each pilgrimage as to his/her appearance and comportment. These pilgrims to any of the three dominant estates in the then England: Clergy, Nobility, and Commoners. The Pilgrims are as follows: a knight a ...

Hamlet Reconsidered (1947) From The Wheel Of Fire By G. Wilson Knight This essay has been taken from G. Wilson knight's The Wheel of Fire, which is an interpretation of Shakespearean tragedy. This collection of essays comes with an introduction by T.S Eliot. Read on! *** This essay, a rough preliminary draft of which I have had by me for a  number of years, is intended to supplement, though not to replace,  those already written (including my ‘Rose of May’ in The Imperial Theme ).  I hope all the essays will be read in conjunction. It is not, however,  supposed that they exhaust the latent meanings of Hamlet ; and I would  draw the attention of my readers to Mr. Roy Walker’s very important  study in imaginative interpretation, The Time is Out of Joint , being published  by Andrew Dakers (which I had the privilege of seeing in typescript). Though our approaches are basically similar, and our material  in places overlaps, the clashes are, on the wh...