Medailonky autorů
Chesterston, Gilbert Keith. (1874 - 1936).
W o r k
- a novelist, poet, playwright, literary and social critic, newspaper columnist, historian, Catholic Christian theologian, debater, and mystery writer
- a down-to-English-earth writer with social...
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. (1772 - 1834).
L i f e
- a lifelong friend of William Wordsworth: collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads
- took laudanum for his rheumatism => became addicted, suffered both physically and psychically, quarrelled...
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Compton-Burnett, Ivy. (1884 - 1969).
W o r k
- author of 18 novels on similar subjects
- concern: an enclosed, circumscribed, and dying historical world
- typical characters: a late Victorian upper middle-class extended family
- typical setting:...
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Conrad, Joseph. (1857 - 1924).
L i f e
- a merchant seaman: travelled the Pacific, especially the East and West Indies > gained experience and material for his writing
- a naturalised British subject > a sense of betrayal, guilt, and...
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Day-Lewis, Cecil. (1904 - 1972).
W o r k
- Poet Laureate (1968 - 1972)
- 1930s: sympathized with Marxism
- 1940s: abandoned the left-wing point of view in his poetry
- 1950s: retreated into a bucolic ideal in his translations...
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De la Mare, Walter. (1873 - 1956).
W o r k
I m a g i n a t i o n :
(a) childlike imagination: intuitive and inductive > visionary poetry
(b) boylike imagination: logical and deductive > intellectual poetry
- prefers the childlike type of...
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Dickens, Charles. (1812 - 1870).
W o r k
- a free-lance newspaper reporter and writer under the pseudonym Boz
- author of baggy plots filled with incident and a multitude of characters
- an acute observer of London streets and interiors,...
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Dowson, Ernest. (1867 - 1900).
L i f e
- led an active social life: met university students, attended music halls, etc.
- fell in love with a 12 year old girl, courted her for two years x but: failed
> the girl appears as a...
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Durrell, Lawrence. (1912 - 1990).
L i f e
- born in India, resided in England, the Mediterranean, and Egypt
< influenced by D. H. Lawrence: shared his antipathy to British reserve
< Henry Miller: the two led a long correspondence
W o r...
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Edgeworth, Maria. (1767 - 1849).
L i f e
- closely connected with Ireland: her understanding based on her grasp both of her family and the Irish nation’s history
- sympathised with the oppressed Catholic majority x but: contradictorily...
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Eliot, George. (1819 - 1880).
W o r k
- wrote under the masculine pseudonym to publicly distinguish between the highly moral narrator x the religious sceptic, adulteress (lover of the married George Henry Lewes), and outcast
- avoided...
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Eliot, Thomas Stearns. (1888 - 1965).
L i f e
- settled in England after the outbreak of WW I, became a British subject and member of the Church of England (1927)
W o r k
< influenced by the Metaphysical poets, Jacobean dramatists, French...
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Ford, Ford Madox. (1873 - 1939).
W o r k
- founded The English Review (1908) for both established and new writers
- founded The Transatlantic Review (1920s) for modern literature
The Fifth Queen (1907 - 1908):
- a decoratively...
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Forster, Edward Morgan. (1879 - 1970).
W o r k
- wrote six novels, several collections of short stories, and critical, descriptive, and autobiographical prose
- associated with the ‘Bloomsbury Group’ x but: the least experimental of his...
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Fowles, John. (1926 - 2005).
W o r k
- a novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer
- in some ways ‘a modern Thomas Hardy’, especially as a chronicler of his beloved Dorset (himself settled there), and as the editor of Thomas Hardy’s England...
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