Dr. Sachin Londhe

                              literature   a body of written works. The name has traditionally been applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the perceived aesthetic excellence of their execution. Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.                                The scope of literature Literature is a form of human expression. But not everything expressed in words—even when organized and written down—is counted as literature. Those writings that are primarily informative—technical, scholarly, journalistic—would be excluded from the rank of literature by most, though not all, critics. Certain forms of writing, however, are universally regarded as belonging to literature as an art. Individual attempts within these forms are said to succeed if they possess something called artistic merit and to fail if they do no

Aaron Copland - We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt - You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Jack London - Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. Leonard Bernstein - I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates .- Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.                                                          -Albert Einstein If you have built castles in the

Rhyme Royle:                     It is a stanza form of seven-lines in iambic pentametre and rhyming ab.ab,bc,c.This was used for the first time by Chaucer in "Troilus and Criseyde" and later by James I of Scotland about 1424 in his poem 'The King's Quair' due to which the word 'royal' appears. It is suited for narrative. Soliloquy :                    Soliloquy is a stage device like aside, it is in a form of a speech delivered by a character in a play when alone, believing that there are no hearers. It helps in describing character truthfully. The soliloquies of Hamlet and Claudius in "Hamlet" are excellant examples.

                                                              ( TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA ) Year Laureate Country [A] Language Rationale 1901 Sully Prudhomme     France French "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect" [9] 1902 Theodor Mommsen Germany German "the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A History of Rome " [10] 1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Norway Norwegian "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit" [11] 1904 Frédéric Mistral France Occitan "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scener