Tag: Writers & Literature

 Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) was an Indian Bengali writer who was a towering figure of 20th century world literature. Apart from being a prolific writer, he was also an influential artist and a...

 Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian Bengali polymath who contributed to numerous fields including poetry, drama, art, music and education. Born in a culturally-rich family, Tagore despised formal education and was thus mostly home schooled....

 The topic of life has been explored by numerous poets through the ages. Poems with the dominant theme of life are often didactic, i.e. containing a moral instruction as an ulterior motive. They, at...

 Poetry played a prominent part in the founding of Australian literature. The concept of the Bush became an iconic part of Australian poetry. Bush refers to any sparsely inhabited region and Bush poetry often...

  Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) was a 19th century American writer, editor and literary critic who is regarded as one of the greatest poets and short story writers of his era. Poe was...

 Indian poetry has a long and rich history dating back to ancient times. It has been written in numerous languages including Sanskrit, Hindi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Urdu, Persian and English. Meghaduta, written...

 Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) was an American writer who remains a towering figure in world literature due to his many contributions including that of creating the first recorded detective in the literary...

 Edgar Allan Poe was a 19th century American writer, editor and literary critic who is regarded as one of the greatest poets and short story writers of his era. After his father abandoned the...

 Indian poetry has a long and rich history dating back to ancient times. Due to the diverse nature of India, Indian poetry has been written in numerous languages including Sanskrit, Hindi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu,...

 Though poets like Sappho have contributed to poetry from ancient times, females came to the forefront in poetic literature only in the 19th century. American poet Emily Dickinson; and British poets Christina Rossetti and...