by John Milton Original Text John Milton, Paradise Lost. 2nd edn. 1674. 1 Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit 2 Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste 3 Brought […]
Introduction Hello, literary aficionados! 📚 Welcome back to episode eight of our “Crash Course: A Journey Through the History of English Literature.” We’ve wandered through Romantic landscapes, and now it’s […]
by Martin Luther King Jr. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great […]
by Premchand, Translated from Hindi by Anurag Sharma 1 All the servants greeted me from afar, as soon as they saw me. Gangu being the only exception, he never greeted […]
by R. K. Narayan Little over a year ago Rama Rao went out of work when a gramophone company, of which he was the Malgudi agent, went out of existence. […]
by Thomas Hardy When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay,And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings,Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours […]
by Lord Tennyson Break, break, break,On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!And I would that my tongue could utterThe thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman’s boy,That […]
by John Donne Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus,Through windows, and through curtains call on us?Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?Saucy pedantic wretch, go chideLate school […]
by William Shakespeare That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruin’d choirs, where […]