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“স্বর্গে চাকর হওয়ার চেয়ে নরকে শাসক হওয়া ভালো।”
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
জন মিলটন (John Milton)
প্যারাডাইস লস্ট কবিতা থেকে।
''To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: .Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n.''
Paradise Lost By John Milton .
John Milton, (born December 9, 1608, London, England—died November 8?, 1674, London?), English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most significant English author after William Shakespeare .
He is called Epic Poet.
He is also called 'A great master of verse in Puritan Period' .
Notable Works:
.Paradise Lost (regarded as the greatest epic poem)
.Paradise Regained
.Samson Agonistes
.A Treatise on Christian Doctrine
.Areopagitica
.Lycidas
.Of Education
.On Shakespeare
.Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England
.On the Fifth of November
Important Authors and their Works
Authors | Origin & Type | Works |
| Adlof Hitler | German Fiejrer | Mein Kamf |
| Aeschylus | Father of Greek Tragedy | Prometheos Bound, Agamemnon |
| Alexander Pope | English Poet and Satirist | The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad |
| Alfred Tennyson | English Poet | In Memoriam, The Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the King, Ulysses |
| Andrew Marvell | English Poet | The Garden, To His Coy Mistress |
| Aristophanes | Greek Poet and Playwright | The Peace, The Clouds, Frogs |
| Aristotle | Greek Philosopher | Poetics; Politics |
| Ben Jonson | English Poet and Dramatist | Volpone, Everyman in His Humour |
| Bertrand Russel | British Philosopher | Marriage and Morals, The Impact of Science upon Society |
| Charles Darwin | English Writer | Origin of Species, Descent of Man |
| Charles Dickens | English Novelist | The Pickwick Paper, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations |
| Charlotte Bronte | British Novelist | Jane Eyre, Professor, Shirley |
| Christopher Marlowe | British Dramatist of Elizabethan Age | Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine |
| D. H. Lawrence | English Novelist and Poet | Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| Daniel Defoe | English Journalist and Novelist | Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders |
| Dante | Italian Poet | La Divina Comedia |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson | English Lexicographer and Writer | Vanity of the Human Wishes, Dictionary |
| Dylan Thomas | English Poet and Journalist | Under Milk Wood, Eighteen Poems |
| E. M. Forster | English Novelist | A Passage to India, Longest Journey |
| Edger Allan Poe | American short story writer | The Raven |
| Francis Bacon | English Philosopher and Essayist | Novum Organum, Essays |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | Father of English Poetry | Canterbury Tales, The Legend of Good Women |
| George Bernard Shaw | Irish Dramatist and Critic | Man and Superman, Candida [36th BCS), Apple Cart, Arms and the Man [35th BCS), Saint Joan |
| George Eliot | Author | Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marmer |
| George Orwell | George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty Four, Animal Farm |
| H. G. Wells | English Science Fiction Writer | The Time Machine, The Invisible Man |
| H. W. Longfellow | American Poet | A Psalm of Life |
| Henry Fielding | English Novelist | Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews |
| Homer | Greek Epic Poet | Odessey, Iliad |
| James Henry Leigh Hunt | English Poet, Politician and Essayist | Abu Ben Adhen |
| Jane Austen | English Woman Novelist | Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility |
| John Bunyan | English Prose Writer | The Pilgrim's Progress |
| John Milton | English Poet | Samson Agonistes, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regaineć |
| John Webster | English Playwright | The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi |
| Karl Marx | German Philosopher and Economist | Das Capital, Communist Manifesto |
| Leo Tolstoy | Russian Author | War and Peace |
| Lord Byron | Romantic Poet/Rebel Poet | Don Juan |
| Matthew Arnold | English Poet and Critic | Sohrab and Rustum, The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach |
| Maxim Gorky | Russian Author | Mother, My Childhood |
| Mrs. Virginia Woolf | English Novelist | Night and Day, A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Irish Writer, Poet, Novelist and Playwright | The Vicar of Wakefield |
| Oscar Wilde | English Poet and Novelist | An Ideal Husband |
| P. B. Shelley | English Poet | Adonias; Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark |
| Robert Frost | American Poet | West Running Brook |
| Robert Herrick | English Poet | Hesperides, To Daffodils |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Scottish Author and Poet | Kidnapped; Treasure Island |
| Rudyard Kipling | English poet and Novelist | The Jungle Book, Kim |
| S. T. Coleridge | English Poet | Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria |
| Samuel Butler | English Author | The Way of All Flesh |
| Samuel Johnson | English Writer | The Vanity of Human Wishes |
| Saul Bellow | American Novelist (Born in Canada) | Seize the Day |
| William Shakespeare | Greatest English poet and dramatist | Macbeth, Hamlet, As You Like It, etc. |
| Sigmund Freud | Austrian Founder of Psycho-Analysis | Delusion and Dream |
| Sir Arthur C. Doyle | English Novelist | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Sir Philip Sidney | English Soldier and Poet | Apology for Poetry |
| Sir Winston Churchill | Politician of England | The Gathering Strom; The Second World War |
| T. S. Eliot | English Poet and Playwright | Murder in the Cathedral |
| Thomas Carlyle | English Writer | Past and President |
| Thomas Gray | English Poet | Ode to Adversity |
| Thomas Hardy | Novelist | The Mayor Casterbridge |
| Thomas Kyd | Playwright | The Spanish Tragedy |
| Thomas Moore | Irish Poet | The Epicurean, The Minstrel Boy, The La Rose of Summer |
| W. B. Yeats | Irish Poet and Dramatist | The Tower, Isle of Innisfree [35th BCS] |
| William Blake | English Poet | Songs of Experience; Songs of Innocence |
| William Faulkner | American Novelist | Light in August |
| William Langland | Prose Writer | Piers Plowman |
| W. Makepeace Thackeray | English Novelist | Henry Esmond; Vanity Fair |
| William Wordsworth | English poet | Lyrical Ballads [36th BCS); The Prelude; The Daffodils, Michael, Tintern Abbey |
Important Works and Their Authors
Works | Type | Authors |
| A Brief History of Time | History | Stephen W. Hawking |
| A Doll's House | Social Drama | Henrik Ibsen |
| A Farewell to Arms | Novel | Ernest Hemingway |
| A Haunted House | Novel | Virginia Woolf |
| A Kiss for Cinderella | Play | J. M. Barrie |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Comedy | William Shakespeare |
| A Passage to England | Novel | Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
| A Passage to India [36th BCS] | Novel | E. M. Forster |
| A Tale of Tub | A Satire on Extremist | Jonathan Swift |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Novel | Charles Dickens |
| A Woman of No Importance | Novel | Oscar Wilde |
| Adam Bede | Novel | George Eliot |
| Adonias | Poem (Elegy) | P. B. Shelley |
| Adventure of Sherlok Holmes | Thrill Story | Arther Conan Doyle |
| Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Travelogue | Mark Twain |
| Aeneid | Epic Poem | Virgil |
| Ain-i-Akbari | Law Book | Abul Fazal |
| Akbar Nama | Biography | Abul Fazal |
| All's Well that Ends Well | Comedy | Shakespeare |
| An Ideal Husband | Novel | Oscar Wilde |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Poem | S. T. Coleridge |
| Animal Farm | Novel | George Orwell |
| Anna Karenina | Novel | Leo Tolstoy |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Comedy | W. Shakespeare |
| Arabian Nights | Fairy Tales | Sir Richard Burton |
| Arms and the Man [36th BCS] | Play | G. B. Shaw |
| Around the World in Eighty | Novel | Jules Verne |
| Asian Drama | - | Gunnar Myrdal |
| Battle of the Books | Satire | Gunnar Myrdal |
| Biographia Literaria | Literary Criticism | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Break, Break, Break | Lyrical Poem | Tennyson |
| Canterbury Tales | Collection of Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Ceasar and Cleopatra | Play | G. B. Shaw |
| Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Religious Poem | Lord Byron |
| Comedy of Errors | Comedy | W. Shakespeare |
| Crime and Punishment | Novel | Dostoevsky |
| Das Capital | Theory | Karl Marx |
| David Copperfield [36th BCS] | Novel | Charles Dickens |
| Divine Comedy | Poetical Work | Dante |
| Doctor's Dilemma | Play | G. B. Shaw |
| Don Juan | Epic Satire | Lord Byron |
| Emma | Novel | Jane Austen |
| Essay of Man | Poem | Alexander Pope |
| Fairie Queene | Allegorical Poem | Edmund Spenser |
| Far From Madding Crowd | Novel | Thomas Hardy |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Novel | Earnest Hemingway |
| French Revolution | Historical Work | Thomas Carlyle |
| God of Small Things | Novel | Arundhuty Roy |
| Great Expectations | Novel | Charles Dickens |
| Gulliver's Travels | Novel | Jonathan Swift |
| Hamlet | Tragedy | W. Shakespeare |
| Hard Times | Novel | Charles Dickens |
| Idylls of the King | Verse | Tennyson |
| Iliad | Epic | Homer |
| Importance of Being Earnest | Comedy | Oscar Wilde |
| In Memoriam | Verse | Tennyson |
| India Wins Freedom | Autobiography | Abul Kalam Azad |
| India Divided | Autobiography | Rajendra Prasad |
| Invisible Man | Novel | H. G. Wells |
| Isabella | Long verse | John Keats |
| Ivanhoe | Long verse | Walter Scott |
| Julius Caesar | Tragedy | William Shakespeare |
| Jungle Book | Fairy Tale | Rudyard Kipling |
| King Lear | Tragedy | William Shakespeare |
| Kubla Khan | Poem | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| La Divine Comedia | Verse | A. Dante |
| Lady Chatterly's Lover | Novel | D. H. Lawrence |
| Lady of the Lake | Novel | Sir Walter Scott |
| Love's Labour's Lost | Comedy | W. Shakespreare |
| Lycidas | Elegy | John Milton |
| Man and Superman | Drama | G. B. Shaw |
| Marriage and Morals | Essay | Bertrand Russell |
| Measure for Measure[36th BCS] | Comedy | W. Shakespeare |
| Merchant of Venice [36th BCS] | Comedy | W. Shakespeare |
| Middle March | Novel | George Eliot |
| Mill on the Floss | Novel | Grorge Eliot |
| Murder in Cathedral | Play | T. S. Eliot |
| New Arabian Nights | - | R. L. Stevenson |
| Ode to the West Wind | Poem | P. B. Shelley |
| Odyssey | Epic | Homer |
| Old Man and the Sea | Novel | Ernest Hemingway |
| Oliver Twist | Novel | Charles Dickens |
| One World and India | Historical Work | Arnold Toynbee |
| Origin of Species | Scientific Writing | Charles Darwin |
| Othello [35th BCS] | Tragedy | W. Shakespeare |
| Paradise Regained | Epic | John Milton |
| Pilgrim's Progress | Allegorical Novel | John Bunyan |
| Plays Pleasant and Plays Unpleasant | Collection of Plays | G. B. Shaw |
| Prelude | Verse | W. Wordsworth |
| Pride and Prejudice | Novel | Jane Austen |
| Prince | Political treatise | Machiavelli |
| Rape of the Lock | Mock Epic | Alexander Pope |
| Robinson Crusoe | Novel | Daniel Defoe |
| Romeo and Juliet | Tragedy | Shakespeare |
| Satanic Verses | Ficticious Story | Salman Rushdie |
| Scholar Gipsy | Poem | Matthew Arnold |
| Sense and Sensibility | Novel | Jane Austen |
| Silent Woman | Drama | Ben Jonson |
| Sohrab and Rustum | Poem | Matthew Arnold |
| Sons and Lovers | Novel | D. H. Lawrence |
| Sound and the Fury | Novel | William Faulkner |
| St. Joan | Play | G. B. Shaw |
| The Tempest | Comedy | Shakespeare |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Novel | Thomas Hardy |
| The Alchemist | Play | Ben Jonson |
| The Return of the Native [36th BCS] | Novel | Thomas Hardy |
| The Virginians | Essay | W. Makepeace Thackeray |
| Three Musketeers | Novel | Alexander Dumas |
| Time Machine | Science Fiction | H. G. Wells |
| To a Skylark | Verse | P. B. Shelley |
| Tom Jones | Novel | Henry Fielding |
| Tom Sawyer | Novel | Mark Twain |
| Top Secret | Novel | Henry Fielding |
| Travel With a Donkey | Travelogue | R. L. Stevenson |
| Treasure Island | Romance | R. L. Stevenson |
| Twelfth Night | Comedy | W. Shakespeare |
| Ulysses | Novel | James Joyce |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Novel | Mrs. Harriet Stowe |
| Utopia | Speculative Work | Sir Thomas More |
| Vanity Fair | Novel | W. M. Thackeray |
| Vicar of Wakefield | Novel | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Vision of Judgement | Poem | Lord Byron |
| Vision of Mirza | Allegory | Addison |
| Voyage to Lilliput | Satire | Jonathan Swift |
| War and Peace | Novel | Tolstoy |
| Waste Land | Poem | T. S. Eliot |
| Way of the World | Comedy | Congreve |
| Winter's Tale | Play | W. Shakespeare |
| Wuthering Heights | Novel | Emile Bronte |
Special Titles of Some Literary Persons
Figures | Titles |
| Venerable Bede | Father of English learning |
| Alfred the Great | The founder of English prose |
| Chaucer | Father of English poetry |
| John Wycliffe | Father of English prose |
| Sir Thomas Wyatte | First sonneteer in English literature |
| William of Newbury | Father of historical criticism |
| Caedmon | First poet in English literature |
| Edmund Spenser | The poet of poets |
| William Shakespeare | Bard of Avon |
| John Donne | Poet of love/Metaphysical poet |
| John Milton | Epic poet/The great master of verse |
| John Milton | Father of English criticism |
| Alexander Pope | Mock heroic poet |
| Henry Fielding | Father of English novel |
| William Wordsworth [36th BCS] | Poet of Nature/Lake poet/Poet of children |
| S.T. Coleridge | Poet of Nature/Lake poet/Poet of children |
| Lord Byron | Rebel poet |
| P.B. Shelley | Revolutionary poet/Poet of hope and regeneration |
| John Keats | Poet of beauty |
| Willian Blake | Both poet and painter |
| George Bernard Shaw | The greatest modern dramatist and Psychiatrist. |
| Sigmund Freud | A great psycho-analysist and psychiatrist |
| Jane Austen | Anti-romantic in Romantic age |
| Francis Bacon | Father of English Essay |
| Lindley Murray | Father of English Grammar |
| Coleridge & Wordsworth | Father of Romanticism |
| Nicholas Udall | First English comedy writer |
| Christopher Marlowe | Father of English tragedy |
| James Joyce | Father of English stream of conscious novel |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Father of English mystery play |
| Samuel Johnson | Father of English one act play |
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