Note: Missing Page 155., Libertines of the seventeenth century vigorously disputed the conventional beliefs and systems of knowledge generally accepted in their time. Offspring of a time of transition in politics, religion and scientific knowledge, their individualism was formed and…

The theme of this thesis is the method of learning. At the beginning of section 11 of the Religio Medici, Browne writes, "In my solitary and retired imagination … I … forget not to contemplate his and his attributes ……

Graham Greene’s first three novels are historical adventure stories. For example, the man within, published in 1929, is the story of a young man who betrays his fellow smugglers into the hands of the law. The examination of his fear…

Ben Jonson wrote that Donne’s work was “longer a knowing than most wits doe live”, and feared that it would perish “for not being understood”. The passage of three and a half centuries has not brought about the fulfilment of…

A balanced appreciation of poetry requires both the objective and subjective methods of literary criticism, but it is generally agreed, as W. W. Lawrence writes of the Canterbury Tales, that “the further we recede from our own times, the less…

The purpose of this thesis is the study of the four novels of Thomas Wolfe. Wolfe’s work is centered in a single protagonist; a figure that is largely autobiographical, and is dominated by a number of themes. In ‘Look Homeward’,…

As a novelist primarily concerned with morality and the survival of the individual in a hostile world, Mordecai Richler repeatedly demonstrates the tension between the fantasies of his characters and the actualities that confront them. For the purposes of this…