Wayfaring with Makwana

"It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor"  Introduction   Edmund Spenser was a 16th century English poet.  Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for notable work The Faerie Queene, which was the unfinished  epic poem, the masterpiece and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. he is recognized as one of the greatest poets in the English language.  He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent ( develop) Modern English verse. His family was not wealthy. He was poor scholar. Edmund Spenser was a man of his times and his work reflects the religious and humanistic ideals  His contributions to English literature. He was influenced by Chaucer.  Life No documentation exists to establish his exact date of birth. Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, near the tower of London, in 1552. He was an English poet. He was one of the three children of Elizabeth and John S...

"The true measure of life is not length , but honesty" Introduction   If we talk about william shakespeare's predecessors, we have to mention university Wits. The University Wits belongs late 16th-century English playwrights and pamphleteers. The University Wits is a phrase used to name a group of  young dramatists English playwrights and pamphleteers. who were educated at the Oxford or Cambridge Universities and who became popular secular writers. Who were the talented people. There were group of seven members. This group consists of Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, George Peele and Thomas Kyd. Prominent members of this group were Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele from Oxford. Thomas Kyd is not belong to any university.  The term "University Wits" was not used in their lifetime, but was coined by George Saintsbury, a 19th-century journali...

Life   Alexander Pope was born on 21 May 1688 in London, England. the year of the Glorious Revolution. Alexander Pope is seen as one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century. He is best known for satirical and discursive poetry. His best works are The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, Pope is the second-most quoted writer in English, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. He is one of the most epigrammatic of all English authors. pope was died on 30 May 1744 (aged 56) in Twickenham, Middlesex, England. His father  was a successful linen merchant in the Strand. What is the Ode An ode is usually addressed to someone or something in order to make poem. An ode (from Ancient Greek ) is a type of lyrical stanza. It is an elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally and Al...

  "Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey" Life   Lord Byron full Name is George Gordon Byron. He was 6th Baron Byron. Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on Holles Street in London, England and  died on April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece, Known as Lord Byron. He was an English peer, and politician, British Romantic poet and satirist. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement and is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. Byron was known for his numerous affairs with women. Byron’s first published volume of poetry, Hours of Idleness, appeared in 1807.  About poem   When We Two Parted was published in 1816.  When We Two Parted is  a bitter poem about pain ( disillusionment )   of a breakup  and about the end of a relationship (affairs ). The poem is written by Lord Byron in melancholy ( Sorrowful ) tone.  When We Two Parted is a Lyric poem, each stanza having the rhyme scheme ABABCDCD. It...

  Life Michael Drayton was born about in 1563 at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Michael wrote sonnets and theatrical plays, as well as historical, pastoral, and topographical poetry. Michael was the layman of the elizabethan age, vastly more scholarly then his predecessor. Michael Drayton  was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era. drayton is the most voluminous and to antiquarians at least the most interesting of the minor poets. Michael Drayton was also one of the most versatile of English poet and distinguished writer  in Elizabethan England. He was highly praised in his own time, by Ben Jonson among others. Michael wrote one of the longest poems in English history. Michael Drayton was a contemporary of many  literary giant in an age of literary giants. Almost nothing is known about his early life, beyond the fact that in 1580 he was in the service of Thomas Goodere of Collingham, Nottinghamshire. BUY NOW Education His fat...

  " Lack of education lead to lack of wisdom, Without wisdom morals were lost, Without morals progress was lost, Without development wealth was lost, Which leads to the Persecution of the lower classes, So mush has happened through lack of Education " મહાત્મા ગાંધીજી પહેલા દેશમાં એક મહાત્મા સમાજ સુધારકે જન્મ લીધો, જેને  સામાજિક કૃતીરિવાજ, સ્ત્રી પુરુષ અસમાન, જાતિવાદ, અસ્પૃશ્યતા બંધ કરવા માટે અને અશિક્ષિત અને કિશાનની સ્થિતિ સુધારવા અને સમાજમાં સ્ત્રીઓને અધિકાર આપવા માટે ઉલ્લેખનીય કામ કર્યું.   જીવન   મહાત્મા જ્યોતિરાવ ફુલેનો જન્મ 11 એપ્રિલ 1827 માં માળી જાતીમા કટગુન, સતારા, પુણેમાં થયો હતો. તેમનું પૂરું નામ મહાત્મા જ્યોતીબા ગોવિંદરાવ ફુલે હતું. તેઓ 'ફૂલે' ના નામથી વધારે જાણીતા હતા. રાવ સમાજસુધારક, લેખક,  વિચારક,  તત્વચિંતક, કાંતિકારી, દાર્શનિક, વિદ્વાન અને સંપાદક હતા. તેમની માતૃભાષા મરાઠી હતી. તેમણે અને તેમની પત્ની સાવિત્રિબાઈ ફુલેએ સ્ત્રીઓને  શિક્ષિત કરવાની શરૂઆત કરી હતી.  તેમના પિતાનું નામ ગોવિંદરાવ અને માતાનું નામ ચિમનાબાઈ હતું. ગોવિંદરાવને બે સ...

There is only one God, None equals him, He has no end, He is present in all living beings. જીવન   રામ મોહનરાયનો જન્મ  હુગલી જિલ્લાના રાધાનગર ગામમાં 22 મે 1772 બંગાળમાં થયો હતો. નાનપણથી જ તેજ બુદ્ધિ અને વિદ્દોહી તેવર ના હતા. રાજા રામ મોહન રાય ભારતના એક મહાન કેળવણીકાર, વિશુદ્ધ ધર્મ પ્રવર્તક, સમાજસુધારક, નિડર પત્રકાર હતાં.  તેમણે બેરિસ્ટર  ડિગ્રી મેળવી હતી. તેમના પિતા રમાકાંત બ્રાહ્મણ ( વૈષ્ણવ ) કુટુંબના હતા, જયારે માતા તારિણી (શક્તિ ) દેવી શૈવ કુટુંબના હતા. તેમને આધુનિક ભારતના પિતા, આધુનિક ભારતના નિર્માતા, અતીત અને ભવિષ્યના મધ્યસેતુ, આધુનિક ભારતનો પ્રથમ પુરુષ પત્રકારીતાનો અગ્રદૂત, અંતરાષ્ટીયતાનો પૂજારી, ભારતીય પુનરજાગરણ, નવજાગરણ નો અગ્રદૂત, સુધારા આંદોલન નો પ્રવર્તક, આધુનિક ભારતના આધસુધારક, નવા યુગના અગ્રદૂત વગેરે નામથી ઓળખવામાં આવે છે. તેમણે ધર્મમાં રહેલાં દૂષણો દૂર કરવા અનેક પ્રયત્નો કર્યા હતા અને એકેશ્વરવાદનો પ્રચાર કર્યો હતો.  શિક્ષણ   રાજા રામ મોહન રાયનું પ્રારંભિક શિક્ષણ તેમના ગામની નિશાળમાં શરુ થયું હતું. જ્યાં તેઓ બંગાળી, સંસ્કૃત અને ફારસી ભાષાઓનું જ્...

  Life Sir Philip Sidney was born on November 30, 1554, in Kent, England. And an aristocratic family. Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. Sidney was knighted in 1583. Family   His father, Sir Henry Sidney, was the lord president of Wales. His mother, Lady Mary Dudley  was the daughter of John Dudley, the 1st Duke of Northumberland, and the sister of Robert Dudley, the 1st Earl of Leicester, Queen Elizabeth’s friend and advisor. Sidney was named after his godfather, King Philip II of Spain. Sidney was the eldest of three children.  Education He attended the Shrewsbury School beginning in 1564 at the age of ten. There, he met his longtime best friend and future biographer, Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke.  Sidney attended Oxford University’s Christ Church College from 1568 to 1571. but, he left without taking a degree in order to travel . he travelled to va...

  Life George Chapman was born about 1559, probably in at near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. he was died on 12 May 1634. he was an English dramatist, translator and English poet and whose translation of Homer long remained the standard English version. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been speculated to be the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's sonnets by William Minto,  and as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. Education There is conjecture that he studied at Oxford but did not take a degree, though no reliable evidence affirms this. Very little is known about Chapman's early life, but Mark Eccles uncovered records that reveal much about Chapman's difficulties and expectations. Family   His father, Thomas Chapman, was a local landowner, his mother Joan was the daughter of George Nodes,   On his mother’s side, Chapman was related to Edward Grimeston, whose family served the English governme...