Dr. Sachin Londhe

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke About the Poet: Rupert Brooke , (born Aug. 3, 1887,  Rugby , Warwickshire, Eng.—died April 23, 1915,  Skyros , Greece), English poet, a wellborn, gifted, handsome youth whose early death in  World War I  contributed to his idealized image in the interwar period. His best-known work is the sonnet sequence  1914 .                                                           BORN August 3, 1887  Rugby ,  England                                                 DIED April 23, 1915 (aged 27)  Skyros ,  Greece At school at Rugby, where his father was a master, Brooke distinguished himself as a cricket and football (soccer) player as well as a scholar. At  King’s College , Cambridge, where he  matriculated  in 1906, he was prominent in the Fabian (Socialist) Society and attracted innumerable friends. He studied in Germany and traveled in Italy, but his favourite pastime was rambling in the countryside around the village of Grantchester, which he celebrated in a charmi

 Features of Comedy of Manners  Introduction This genre refers to English Comedies written and performed in the Restoration Period from 1660 A.D. to 1710 A.D. It is also called as Restoration Comedy. It is an entertainment form which satirizes the manners and affections of social class or of multiple classes. A manner is a method in which everyday duties are performed. As compared to the tragedy of the Restoration Age, this genre achieved greater distinction and shame. It was the most characteristic product of Restoration Literature & reflects the spirit of the age more comprehensively than its prose and poetry. Dryden was the first to write Comedy of Manners with his Wild Gallant, which was a failure. He wrote several other Comedies of Manners also which were more successful. Features of Comedy of Manners 1. It depends upon the dramatists’ capacity to present the unemotional treatment of sex. 2. It is rich with wit and satire and gives the image of the time. 3. The her