Byron was an English poet and leading figure of Romanticism. "She Walks in Beauty" is a short lyrical poem written in 1813 by Lord Byron and is one of his most famous works. It is said that hid works had been inspired by an event in Byron 's life. Byron’s influences are shown in the volumes Poe wrote. Many volumes that he wrote were also based on his live and the events he went through.
Then when he was expelled from Jersey, he moved to the neighbouring island of Guernsey. During his exile of nearly 20 years he produced the most extensive part of all his writings and the most original. Hugo’s return to poetry was with an explosion of hate: Les Châtiments (1853; “The Punishments”). This collection of poems unwrapped his anger against the new emperor. Victor Hugo was known as a free thinking republican Victor Hugo’s independent writings comes from this way of living.
It was edited by edited Sitwell. A member of a prominent literary family in England her brother, osbert Sitwell , had been a friend of Owen and Sassoon in 1931 a expanded edition with twenty –nine poems was published, together with a introduction by Edmund Blunden another notable British poet who had served in continued to inspire later generations of poets such as cecil day Lewis who in 1964 edited the collected poems of Wilfred Owen which included seventy-nine
These early stories anticipate his develop method and his anxiety for values in a degenerate and detached world. Be that as it may, it was The Torrents of Spring, which showed up in 1926, that built up him as an author of notoriety. His worldwide notoriety was solidly secured by his next three books, The Sun Also Rises, Men Without Women and A Goodbye to Arms. This was just the start of an illustrious career, with an amazing yield of a few books and short stories, an accumulation of lyrics and The Fifth Column, a
In his timeless poem, “The World Is Too Much With Us”, William Wordsworth bemoans the state of the world and how people so ignore creation. Wordsworth was an English poet in the in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His childhood was a traumatic time as he moved from one place to another after the tragic death of his mother. As he grew older, so did his passion for poetry and he soon published in a magazine when he was only seventeen. Despite stains on his character, including a relationship out of marriage, he continues to be revered as one of the greatest poets from that period of history.
Jose Vazquez Professor Dorsey English 2323 May 5, 2017 Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” & “Porphyria’s Lover” Browning lived in the Victorian age in which love was written from complexities in the mind. He became a master in the style of Dramatic Monologue producing his best works out of all his writings, “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”. They both are extraordinary pieces of literature that project their words into a deeper meaning through their theme, perspective, and tone. The theme that resurfaces in each of the works, “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover,” is that of the man 's desire for complete possession and ownership of women. This is clear in both works though in “Porphyria’s Lover,” it couldn 't be clearer.
John Masefield, a copious writer, had a history of siding with the weak against the strong (Strong 356). Masefield found his identity in love of life and compassion for all that live it (356). John Masefield was born in 1878, and trained to go to sea (“John Masefield” par 1). Masefield is a British poet, which is crucial to the setting of the poem, “Sea Fever” (par 1). John Masefield received the title of British Poet Laureate in 1930 (par 1).
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are the most representative and brilliant poets of the nineteenth century and in the American literature in general. However, we can also say that, between them, they have the most different styles of writing they can have, just as well as their lives. For example, as Christenbury (n.d.) stated, firstly that Walt Whitman was someone “[…] who struggled to get his poems published and who developed a broad admiring audience during his lifetime. In contrast, the reclusive Emily Dickinson died unknown to the world of poetry, leaving a box full of unpublished poems”. Nevertheless, we can find some similarities in their lives, for example, both of them lived in a difficult historical period: on the one hand Emily Dickinson, who was born the 10th of December of 1830 and on the other hand, Walt Whitman, who was born the 31st of May of 1819, lived the period of the American civil war.
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), is a French author of the naturalistic school who is regarded as the greatest short story writer. Though he didn 't originate the short story genre, he promoted it. Maupassant was a prolific writer, between 1880 and 1890 he wrote around three hundred short stories. He was a master of his works and many of his famous works were associated with caustic endings. The Necklaceis perhaps his most famous work ,which has been also called Madame Bovary in miniature.
In addition to his poetry, Yeats devoted significant creative energy in writing plays. According to the official Nobel Prize website, Yeats was selected for his always inspiring poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation. The publications of ‘Last Poems’ and ‘Two Plays’, after his death, cemented his legacy as a leading poet and playwright. He died in 1939 and is remembered as one of the most significant modern poets of all times. Yeats was an impressionist, he used symbols.