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The Voice By V.S Pritchett (Story)

A great English writer, essayist, critic, novelist and journalist of 20th century, Victor Sawdon Pritchett (V.S.Pritchett, 1900-1997), whose career crossed over 60 years, write “The Voice”. He became popular with his short stories, in which he portrayed common Englishmen with respect and understanding humor.There are two major characters in „The Voice‟, Morgan and Rev. Lewis. When the story is started, Morgan, the priest is buried under the debris of church that had been brought down due to explosion of a bomb. He was singing a hymn through which the rescue workers came to know about his presence. Morgan was predecessor of Lewis who was now in charge of the church. Although both of them were extremely jealous from each other and hated each other but after seeing Morgan in trouble Lewis could not help stop him and rushed towards debris forgetting all his biasness. He repeatedly calls Morgan and asks him to sing. While saving Morgan, Lewis himself fell down due to crack down on the floo

ELIZABETHAN PROSE PART II,THE PROSE ROMENCE, :THE PAMPHLETEERS , THE TRANSLATORS, CRITICAL PROSE,THE SERMON,DRAMATIC PROSE,THE CHARACTER WRITERS

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THE PROSE ROMENCE   during the latter half of the 16 th century or the Elizabeth age a number of prose romance were produce, they were all written in the new style called Euphuistic style cultivated and developed by JOHN LYLY (1554-1606). LYLY, the courtier, wrote ‘EUPHEUS’ a prose romance in which he laid. the foundation of a new style of prose writing which has come to be associated with his name it is known as ‘EUPHEUISM’ In this style we have LYLY determination to bid good bye to simple prose which WILAON had advocated . ‘EUPHES’ was the first conspicuous example in English of the determination to achieve an ornate, variegated and rather fantastic style. LYLY introduced the practice of balanced and antithetical sentence and led the revolt against simple style. Style was made ornate and rich by  the introduction of classical similarly drown from the fanciful zoology of the middle ages the encouraged the quantity manners of saying things consist quaintness sand individuality we

The Elizabeth age prose

The Elizabeth age as well being called a young age it was full of boundless vigorous reawakened influential earnestness soaring imagination. the best fruit of the age are found in poetry in which all this element can be found in poetry there are registration of verification which it exerted  some checks on the youthful imagination on vigor of the Elizabethan consequently Elizabethan poetry is very great but prose does not admire of any   subtitled registration and the result is that the Elizabethan prose was developed much during the 15 century Latin was the medium of expression and almost all the important prose work  were written in that language. It was in the 16th century that the English language come to its own with the arrival of man printing English prose become the popular medium for works aiming both at amusement and instruction the book which data form this period covered many department of learning. The early Elizabeth use new prose when  was very alive the use some educa

15th century prose by literature mail

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#1 Literature in 15th Century  ०. The 15th century is comparatively barren and non productive in the field of literature. ० .With Chaucer English literature made a brilliant beginning and after his death we enter a barren period of       one and half a century. .० But during this time ‘prose literature' recorded considerable progress #2 Progress of English Literature  ०Prose moved forward during the 15th century to a richness that was unknown to the preceding ages.  ०English men shaped the rough material of their native tongue to form a literature for providing instructions        and entertainment. ० There was perceptible increases in skill  due to increased practice.  ० There was a growing perception of the beauties of rhythm and there was the development of various             prose  style including the ornate and the plain. Prose writers and their contribution  ० The promising pose writers of the century sought to import directness and simplic