This paper examines the intersection and synergy between Alter/Native criticism New Historicism in context of second-generation Nigerian poets. Alter/ Native focuses on indigenous literary traditions, cultural contexts, oral histories, while explores interplay literature historical conditions. By applying these critical approaches to works poets novelists, such as Niyi Osundare, Chinua Achebe, ...

December 1817, a group of poets met in London in the studio of the painter Benjamin Haydon, who recorded in his diary how Wordsworth abused him for putting Newton’s head into one of his paintings. ‘A fellow’, Wordsworth declared, ‘who believed nothing unless it was as clear as the three sides of a triangle.’ Keats, who was present, agreed and they all drank ‘Newton’s health, and confusion to ma...

This paper examines the strategies Anne Sexton, Carol Ann Duffy, and Margaret Atwood employ in their revisionist mythmaking project to disclose denounce detrimental impact of patriarchal norms institutions on women gender equality. The poets rewrite classical myths fairy tales this time tell stories those who have been excluded from historical sociocultural narratives. new unsettle stereotypes ...