Poetic Diary of a Romantic Soul

For the first time, with utter frankness, having spoken in verse about the storms and passions that had shaken his heart, Byron made a real revolution in the lyrics. Before him, poets mostly wrote about love and hatred, joys and sufferings as generalized, abstract, and often conditional feelings. Byron, however, turned the soul inside out, … Read more

The tragedy of the war in the works of H. Böll

The work of the German writer Heinrich Böll is almost entirely devoted to the theme of war and the postwar life of Germany. His works immediately gained fame, began to be printed in many countries of the world, and in 1972 the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize “for creativity, which combines a broad scope … Read more

“Red and black” F. Stendhal as a socio-political novel

The Bourbon monarchy, renovated by the occupation forces, was a noble monarchy, that is, political power belonged to the nobility. However, the bourgeoisie already reigned in the economy and was preparing to take political power into its hands, which happened, only Stendhal completed the novel. This re-victory – after the revolution of the late XVIII … Read more

Genre of the novel “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens

In the history of the formation and development of English realism, Charles Dickens’s novel “David Copperfield” occupies a special place. Along with such famous works of the writer as “Cold House” and “Little Dorrit”, this novel marks a qualitatively new stage in his work, characterized by a deeper penetration of Charles Dickens into the psychology … Read more

Work on a work

How to write a good composition? Often this question is asked not only by the schoolchildren who are not given this task in any way, but also by parents who are powerless to help their student children, and teachers who are looking for new ways and methods to teach the children to write essays. For … Read more

What is the secret of Hamlet for us?

Each generation for four centuries in different ways is experiencing the tragedy of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, written in 1601. The secret hidden in the tragedy, everyone reveals in his own way. Hamlet? .. Do we understand the meaning of this name? – it’s great and deep: it’s human life, it’s a person, it’s you, it’s … Read more