Though traditional sonnets are fourteen lines, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in his experiments with poetic form, line, and meter, altered the shape of the sonnet. The  curtal sonnet  is a form invented by  Gerard Manley Hopkins, and used in three of his poems, namely “Pied Beauty”, “Peace” and “Ash Boughs” . Cu…

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In the firmament of Romantic literature, both Wordsworth and Shelley are two dazzling luminaries. Both their Skylark poems deal with a common theme, namely the skylark, a sweet song-bird of England. Though both the poem treats the same theme, their approach is different. Wordsworth wrote his poem as a rejoinder a…

“I find earth not grey but rosy/Heaven not grim but fair of hue.” Robert Browning, a cherished poet of the Victorian era, has many of his poems filled with unbridled optimism. He is “ an uncompromising foe of scientific materialism ” as  Hudson  states Victorian age is a watershed age in English litera…