Medailonky autorů
Bridges, Robert. (1844 - 1930).
L i f e
- a poet and a physician: lung disease made him retire when not yet 40, then devoted himself exclusively to poetry
W o r k
- poet laureate (1913 - 1930)
- the literary executor of the poet and his...
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Brontë, Anne. (1820 - 1849).
L i f e
- a younger sister of Branwell, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë
- educated at home by discussing poetry, history, and politics
- all the three sister writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne led a...
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Brontë, Charlotte. (1816 - 1855).
L i f e
- a sister of Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë
- attended a school for the daughters of poor clergy, her two elder sisters died here of harsh and unhealthful conditions > educated at...
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Brontë, Emily. (1818 - 1848).
L i f e
- a sister of Branwell, Anne, and Charlotte Brontë
- educated at home by discussing poetry, history, and politics
- all the three sister writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne led a...
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Brooke, Rupert. (1887 - 1915).
L i f e
- travelled extensively in Europe, USA, Canada, and the South Seas
- enlisted (winter 1914) and began producing his ‘war sonnets’
- died of blood poisoning on a troopship in the Mediterranean,...
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Browning, Robert. (1812 - 1889).
L i f e
- a husband of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
W o r k
- experiments with language: grotesque rhymes and jaw-breaking diction
- gives psychological insights in devious ways in which our minds...
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Burgess, Anthony. (1917 - 1993).
L i f e
- served as a teacher in the British colonial service in Malaysia and Brunei
- spoke Malaya, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Welsh
W o r k
- versatile and extremely prolific:...
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Burns, Robert. (1759 - 1796).
W o r k
- considered a natural genius, a poet by instinct, a ‘heaven-taught ploughman’, or a ‘Caledonia’s Bard’ x but: well-read, though self-educated
< influenced by the oral tradition of...
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Butlin, Ron. (b. 1949).
L i f e
- born and educated in Edinburgh where he still resides
- Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh (1982 and 1985), Novelist in Residence at the University of St Andrews (1998-1999), now a...
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Byron, George Gordon. (1788 - 1824).
W o r k
- in his lifetime immensely popular as the prototype of literary Romanticism
- introduced the Byronic Hero = mysterious, gloomy, and rebellious; superior in his passions and powers to...
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Carlyle, Thomas. (1795 - 1881).
W o r k
- the most noisy and effective critic of early Victorian Britain
< influenced by German philosophy: wrote Life of Schiller (1824) and translated Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's...
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Carroll, Lewis. (1832 - 1898).
L i f e
- searched for a vocation amid the negative ‘Babel of voices’ of the mid-Victorian England, and accepted the dull stability of life as a mathematics don at Christ Church, Oxford, and a deacon in the...
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Carter, Angela. (1940 - 1992).
W o r k
- preoccupied with an extravagant fictional world of magic and theatre
- reinvented the fairy-tale for a knowing adult public
N o n - f i c t i o n :
The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural...
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Cary, Joyce. (1888 - 1957).
W o r k
" T h e F i r s t T r i l o g y " :
- each novel is narrated by one of the characters at the end of their lives
- each of the characters fails to fulfil their personal objectives due to the...
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Chatterton, Thomas. (1752 - 1770).
L i f e
- poverty and lack of literary success led him to suicide at the age of 17
- did not have to suffer his dire poverty x but: too proud to accept help
=> the Romantic image of the suffering...
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