• "Lycidas" is a pastoral elegy.

• Lycidas (Elegy):

• Written by John Milton as a memorial for his university friend Edward King, who died in a shipwreck.

• Published in 1638, the poem mourns Edward King’s death and reflects on mortality, fame, and poetic vocation.

• Classified as a pastoral elegy, it blends classical pastoral imagery with lamentation.

• John Milton:

• An English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most important English author after William Shakespeare.

• Best known for his epic Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic in English literature.

• Major Works:

• Paradise Lost (1667) – The greatest epic in English

• Paradise Regained (1671) – Divided into four books

• Samson Agonistes (1671) – Poetic drama

• Lycidas (Elegy)

• On His Blindness (Sonnet)

• Famous Quotes:

• “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” (Paradise Lost)

• “Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the days.” (Paradise Regained)

• “Death is the golden key that opens the place of eternity.” (Paradise Lost)

Source: An ABC of English Literature by Dr. M Mofizar Rahman, Britannica

চতুর্দশ শতকে এশিয়া, ইউরোপ এবং আফ্রিকাতে মারাত্মক একটি মহামারি ছড়িয়ে পড়ে যা ইতিহাসে বিউবনিক প্লেগ মহামারি tor (bubonic plage pandemic) নামে পরিচিত। এতে ইউরোপের প্রায় এক-তৃতীয়াংশ মানুষ প্রাণ হারায়। ইউনিসিয়া পেসটিস নামক একটি ব্যাকটেরিয়া ছিল এ মহামারির প্রধানতম কারণ এবং ওরিয়েন্টাল র‍্যাট ফ্রি নামের এক প্রজাতির মাছি ছিল এই ব্যাকটেরিয়ার পোষক। এই ভয়ংকর মাছিগুলো ইঁদুরকে কামড়ানোর ফলে মহামারী প্লেগ ছড়িয়ে পড়েছিল বলে ইতিহাস সাক্ষ্য দেয়।

Among the options S.T. Coleridge belongs to the romantic period in English literature.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- তিনি একজন English lyrical poet, critic এবং philosopher.
- তাকে Poet of Supernaturalism বলা হয়।
- His Lyrical Ballads, written with William Wordsworth, heralded the English Romantic movement, and his Biographia Literaria (1817) is the most significant work of general literary criticism produced in the English Romantic period.

• Notable Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
- Biographia Literaria; (Literary criticism/autobiography)
- Christabel; ( long narrative ballad)
- Dejection: An Ode;
- Frost at Midnight;
- Kubla Khan;
- Lyrical Ballads;
- On the Constitution of the Church and State;
- The Rime of the Ancient Marine.

• অন্যদিকে,
ক) A. Tennyson - belongs to the victorian period.
খ) Alexander Pope - belongs to the Augustan age/ The Neo-classical period.
গ) John Dryden - belongs to the Restoration/ The Neo-classical period.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica and An ABC of English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman.