POINTS TO REMEMBER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE - SERIES 2
1. Published in March 1722, Daniel Defoe wrote The Journal of the Plague Year . It chronicles an individual's account of the 1665 bubonic plague later called the Great Plague of London. 2. The Journal of the Plague year was published under the initials H.F. It is speculated that the account is based on the journal of Defoe's uncle Henry Foe. 3. Octasyllable is a line with 8 syllables. Its first appearance can be traced to the 10th-century French legend of an old saint titled Vie de Saint Leger . 4. Octasyllabic couplet consists of two lines of the same rhyme and meter. It may be iambic or trochaic teterameter lines. ( PAPER 2, Q7,2004 ) 5. Il Penseroso or The Serious Man was first seen in the quarto of verses published in the 1645-46 called The Poems of Mr. John Milton , both in English and Latin. 6. Il Penseroso was written in couplets of iambic tetrameter like L' Allegro , its companion piece. The poem invokes the goddess Melancholy . 7. On His Blindness also