A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
Literature between War and Whisper: The Final Phase of Modernism (1939–1959) From The Professor’s Desk When literature walks through the fire, it seldom comes out unburnt.The years 1939 to the late 1950s represent not a neat ending, but a scorched continuum of modernism — disillusioned by one war, scarred by another, and finally entrapped in […]
3. Modernism : After the Guns Fell Silent — Literature Between Wars A world trying to forget. A literature that refused to. From The Professor’s Desk The war was over. But the wound was not. Modernist literature between World Wars The year was 1919. Europe was exhausted—physically, spiritually, artistically. The battlefield had fallen quiet, but
3. Modernist literature between World Wars : After the Guns Fell Silent Read More »
How Pope, Swift, and their circle forged an empire of order, satire, and style. From The Professor’s Desk The Restoration had crowned wit as king, but even the cleverest jest must give way to a deeper need for order and truth. As England moved into the early 18th century, the nation craved not just entertainment,
2. The Augustan Age — When Reason Ruled the Rhyme Read More »
Middle English Period 1066-1400 AD Part 2 Geoffrey Chaucer and the Flowering of Middle English Literature From The Professor’s Desk In any history of English literature, certain figures stand as defining voices of their age — and in the Middle English period, none looms larger than Geoffrey Chaucer. Born in the early 1340s, Chaucer lived
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) Middle English Period Read More »