HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

(February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include
"Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to
translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets from New England.

Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, which was then still part of Massachusetts. He studied
at Bowdoin College and, after spending time in Europe, he became a professor at Bowdoin and later
at Harvard College. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and
Other Poems (1841). Longfellow retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the
remainder of his life in a former Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. His first wife Mary Potter died in 1835 after a miscarriage. His second wife Frances
Appleton died in 1861 after sustaining burns when her dress caught fire. After her death, Longfellow had
difficulty writing poetry for a time and focused on translating works from foreign languages. He died in
1882.
 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Poet William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cocker mouth, Cumberland, England.
Wordsworth’s mother died when he was 7, and he was an orphan at 13. Despite these losses, he did
well at Hawks head Grammar School—where he wrote his first poetry—and went on to study at
Cambridge University. He did not excel there, but managed to graduate in 1791.

Born in England in 1770, poet William Wordsworth worked with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical
Ballads (1798). The collection, which contained Wordsworth's "Tin tern Abbey," introduced
Romanticism to English poetry. Wordsworth also showed his affinity for nature with the famous poem "I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." He became England's poet laureate in 1843, a role he held until his death
in 1850.
 SAKI

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, and
also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and
sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of
the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis
Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.[1]

Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and
then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with
Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book
published under his own name; a short novel, The Unbearable Washington; the episodic The
Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A
Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of
Britain.