Pamela was his best novel.
12. W. M. Thackeray was another representative of critical realism in 19th England. In 1847 he published his masterpiece Vanity Fair with a subtitle “a Novel without a Hero”.
13.Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth are considered as Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies. V.
1. Spenserian stanza
A nine-line verse stanza originated by Edmund Spenser is known as the Spenserian stanza. In the nine-line Spenserian stanza the first eight lines are iambic pentameter and the ninth, iambic hexameter, with the rhyme scheme being ababbcbcc. This form of stanza creates a special musical effect and contributes greatly to the technique of poetry composition. 2. Stream of Consciousness It is a literary technique in which a
character’s thoughts are presented in the confusing, jumbled, and inconsequential manner of real life without any clarification by the author. The aim of the technique is to provide a textual equivalent to the stream of a fictional character’s consciousness. It creates the impression that the reader is eavesdropping on the flow of conscious experience in the character’s mind, gaining intimate access to their private “thoughts”. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are masters of this literary technique.