Medailonky autorů
Smith, Stevie. (1902 - 1971).
L i f e
- born Florence Margaret Smith, nicknamed ‘Stevie’ for her resembling a jockey of that name
W o r k
- author of semi-autobiographical novels and poetry
- ostensibly simple poetry: uses subjects...
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Smith, Zadie. (b. 1975).
L i f e
- born to a Jamaican mother and an English father as Sadie Smith, later changed her name to Zadie
W o r k
- compared to Salman Rushdie in subject: her first novel is concerned with deconstructing...
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Southey, Robert. (1774 - 1843).
W o r k
- once admired for a radical plainness and frankness of style x now criticized for narrative dullness and flatness of expression
> appointed Poet Laureate (1813 - 1843)
D r a m a :
The Fall of...
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Spark, Muriel. (1918 - 2006).
L i f e
- of Jewish descent, Scottish birth, and Catholic religion (a convert)
W o r k
- preoccupied with the theological problem of evil, with moral issues in relation to fictional form, and with...
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Spender, Stephen. (1909 - 1995).
W o r k
- 1930s: wrote political and social poems, poems on social injustice and class struggle, and poems on his experience of the Spanish Civil War
- 1950s and on: retreats from political writing, puts...
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Stevenson, Robert Louis. (1850 - 1894).
W o r k
- fascinated with horror x but: achieved great variety and invention
- employed small-town settings and the Scots vernacular > achieved a precise sense of Scottish place
- member of the...
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Stoppard, Tom. (b. 1937).
L i f e
- born Tomáš Straussler in Czechoslovakia, accepted his step-father’s surname Stoppard on his mother’s remarriage, and settled in Britain
W o r k
- playwright both for the theatre and radio,...
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. (1837 - 1909).
L i f e
- shocked by a variety of rebellious gestures: pagan in religion, revolutionary in politics, and adherent of practices of Marquis de Sade in love
W o r k
- briefly involved with the...
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Synge, John Millington. (1871 - 1909).
W o r k
- minimises conventional action, achieves the singular effect through the original use of language
- echoes the rhythms of the Western Ireland English moulded by Gaelic syntax and provincial...
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Tennyson, Alfred. (1809 - 1892).
W o r k
- a poet of the countryside, the classical past, but also the present progress
- uses dignified blank verse
> Poet Laureate (1850 - 1892)
E a r l y P e r i o d...
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Thackeray, William Makepeace. (1811 - 1863).
W o r k
- a satical novelist, essayist, and an intensely amusing comic journalist
The Book of Snobs: “By One of Themselves” (1847):
- satirises the upper- and middle-class society
x but: acknowledges the...
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Thomas, Dylan. (1914 - 1953).
W o r k
< influenced by John Donne: emotionalism, lyric intensity, and metaphysical speculation
Eighteen Poems (1934):
- an early collection of poetry in the Romantic tradition
- uses...
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Thomas, Edward. (1878 - 1917).
L i f e
- enlisted in WW I, killed in action
W o r k
- editor of 16 anthologies and other editions, author of 30 prose books on nature, of reviews and critical writing, and of poetry
- form: plain...
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Trollope, Anthony. (1815 - 1882).
W o r k
- author of nearly 50 novels, of travel-books, biographies, and critical works
- the most informed and observant political novelist in English
- concerned with the politics of parliamentary...
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Wain, John. (1925 - 1994).
W o r k
- author of novels, short stories, poems, radio plays, and literary criticism
- poetry: dry, cerebral, and witty poems associated with ‘The Movement’
- fiction: associated with Angry Young...
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