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1. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), Was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
2. Published: 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
3. Style: Oration ( বক্তৃতা)
4. Main Discussed topics:
- influence of nature,
- Influence of books
- Influence of action
- Duty of the American Scholar
5. Themes: Social Unity, Nature, and Connection, Creation and National Identity,
6. Genre: Essay
1. Henry David Thoreau (1817 -1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist.
2. Published: 1849
3. Main Discussed topics;
- Reasons for Civil Disobedience
- Conception about government
4. Themes: Civil Disobedience, Individuality, law, government, non-violence movement.
5. Genre: Essay
Shakespeare’s Sister
1. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) was an American short story writer, feminist, and essayist.
2. Published:1928
3. Genre: Feminist Essay
4. Themes: Feminism, Male domination, Education, and Literature
5. Discussed topics;
- Reasons for women’s backwardness in literature
- Story of Shakespeare’s Sister Judith
Tradition And Individual Talent
1. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor.
2. Published: 1919
3. Genre: Essay
4. Themes: Tradition, individual Talent, historical sense, and a function of past and present.
5. Discussed topics:
- Tradition
- Individual Talent
- Man thinking
- Mare thinking
- The idea of perfect literature
- Criticism of romantic ideas and poets
- Impersonal theory of poetry
Literature and Society
1. Frank Raymond,” F. R.” Leavis (1895 –1978) was an English literary critic.
2. Published date:1962
3. Genre: Essay
4. Themes: the relationship between literature and Society, Literature, individual Talent, society, Economics, Culture
5. Discussed topics:
- Relationship between literature and Society
- Popular and Sophisticated Culture
- Appreciation and criticism of several writers and ages.
