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Harmony of Life
Babu Appat
Good health is a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being
and not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity. Health is a
resource for everyday life, not the object of living, and is a positive concept emphasizing social and
personal resources as well as physical capabilities.
-WHO
About the Unit
This holistic concept of wellness is the basic premise of the unit,
Harmony of Life. It contains a short story, a poem and an essay
The short story “Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov reflects on the
belief in pursuing one’s dream and doing whatever it takes to achieve
that.
The poem “To Sleep” by William Wordsworth underlines the
necessity of sound sleep
The essay “Going Out for a Walk” by Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm challenges the nation that walking
is a productive mental exercise-especially when one is
accompanied by a talkative companion
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Анто́нПа́влович Че́хов, pronounced [ɐnˈton
ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf]; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and
short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction
in history.
His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held
in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early
modernism in the theatre.
Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career:
"Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major
English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English
literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The
Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he
revised and expanded a number of times
It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was
generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was
Britain's poet laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23
April 1850
Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20
May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist
He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist.
He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until
1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy
In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his
only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911
His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted
watercolour tinting, are in many public collections.
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