Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of “Canterbury Tales” made so great a contribution to the development of English that the people and the language itself should be forever indebted toward the Father of English poetry. Chaucer was born in the year 1340, London and served as public servant through his life.
On a general note composer or composing means putting together, as the Latin term is used in the light of music a composer is regarded as the person who puts together or creates harmonious music. In a deeper sense the term composer is a reference to the great men who […]
Geoffrey Chaucer, the man responsible for the spreading and development of Middle English dialect was not just a poet but was a courtier, philosopher, astronomer etc. However, the father of English literature – Geoffrey Chaucer, is remembered today for his work “The Canterbury Tales” which has more than seventeen thousand […]
The impressionistic painting by Claude Monet “Woman with a Parasol – Madam Monet and Her Son” is believed to be created between the years 1871-1877, when the Monet family went for a summer stroll.
Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S on January, 1809. He is best known as short-story writer, poet, literary critic and editor. Poe’s father abandoned the family in the year 1810, and his mother died in the next year, making him orphaned.
Benjamin Franklin – a keen observer of human behavior known to be innovative and unhesitant – was considered almost equal to the great Leonardo da Vinci himself. The Renaissance spirit lived in him and Franklin was extremely good at being an inventor, scientist, scholar, politician, author, and businessman.
Eric Arthur Blair, famous with his pen name George Orwell was born in Bengal, India in the year 1903. He was a prominent novelist, critic, occasional poet, essayist and journalist known for his works “Animal Farm” and “Nineteen Eighty-four”.
