Medailonky autorů
Owen, Wilfred. (1893 - 1918).
L i f e
- enlisted in WW I, was wounded, and in the hospital met Sigfried Sassoon who encouraged him to write poetry
- killed in action a week before the war ended
- his poems were edited by Sassoon...
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Pater, Walter. (1839 - 1894).
L i f e
- a scholar by training and inclination
- an Oxford University don by profession
W o r k
Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873):
- a collection of essays on Renaissance artists and...
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Percy, Thomas. (1729 - 1811).
L i f e
- a scholarly bishop x but: did not feel pressurised to concentrate his energies on theology only
W o r k
- interested in literature outside narrowly defined canons > pioneered the...
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Pinter, Harold. (b. 1930).
W o r k
< influenced by the ‘theatre of the absurd’, especially by Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
- aims at a dramatic representation of a world of seeming inconsequentiality: builds up a...
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Radcliffe, Ann. (1764 - 1823).
W o r k
“On the Supernatural in Poetry” (1826, posthumously):
- a serious essay explaining her view of her own work
(a) terror = ‘awakens the faculties to a high degree of life’
(b) horror = ‘contracts,...
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Rosenberg, Isaac. (1890 - 1918).
L i f e
- born in a humble family of Anglo-Jewish origin
- aspired to be a painter, supported by donors to study art
- enlisted in WW I, killed in action in the last year of the war
W o r k
-...
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Rossetti, Christina. (1830 - 1894).
W o r k
- uses a distinctively female voice, opposes the conventional representation of women in the Pre-Raphaelite art (“In An Artist’s Studio”)
- combines sensuousness and her religious...
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. (1828 - 1882).
W o r k
- a painter and a poet of decorative and descriptive poetry > a poet in his painting and a painter in his poetry
- founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848)
- fascinated with...
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Ruskin, John. (1819 - 1900).
W o r k
- the most influential art critic of the Victorian era
- mingles a scientific enthusiasm x a semi-religious wonder
- his books are complements to one another: grow from related roots but...
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Sassoon, Siegfried. (1886 - 1967).
L i f e
- enlisted in WW I, fought with a conspicuous courage (Military Cross), but later took a critical view of the war
W o r k
- wrote short and blunt lyrics characteristic with masterly use of direct...
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Scott, Walter. (1771 - 1832).
W o r k
- creator of the 19th century historical novel and historical romance
- presents a romantic view of Scottish past: alters the order of events to suit his ends, makes fictional heroes meet...
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Shaw, George Bernard. (1856 - 1950).
W o r k
< influenced by such diverse personalities as Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, and Henrik Ibsen
- author of more than 50 plays, a socialist, drama critic, music critic, art critic, and a public speaker
-...
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Shelley, Mary. (1797 - 1851).
L i f e
- daughter of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin and the philosopher William Godwin, wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley
W o r k
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818):
- the idea...
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. (1792 - 1822).
W o r k
- a radical nonconformist in every aspect of his life and thought: loved philosophy, scorned orthodoxy, and fought against injustice and oppression
P o e t r y...
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Sitwell, Edith. (1887 - 1964).
L i f e
- an eccentric artist flamboyant both in her dress and manner
- provoked tight bourgeois conventions by both her work and life
W o r k
Wheels (1916 - 21):
- a poetry anthology...
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