ROBERT BROWNING

Born: 7 May 1812

Camberwell, London, England
Died: 12 December
1889 (aged 77)
Venice, Kingdom of Italy
Resting Place: Westminster
Abbey
Occupation: Poet
Alma Matter: University College
London
Literary movement: Victorian
Notable works: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", Men and Women, The
Ring and the Book, Dramatis Personae, Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic
Romances and Lyrics, Asolando
Spouse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (m. 1846; died 1861)
Children: Robert Wiedeman Barrett "Pen" Browning[1]

Relatives: Robert Browning (Father); Sarah Anna

Wiedemann (Mother)
Signature:
 William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English
playwright, poet, and actor, widely
regarded as the greatest writer in the
English language and the world's
greatest dramatist. He is often called
England's national poet and the "Bard of
Avon".
Born: April 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon,
United Kingdom
Died: 23 April 1616, Stratford-upon-
Avon, United Kingdom
Spouse: Anne Hathaway (m. 1582–
1616)
Education: King Edward VI School
Children: Hamnet Shakespeare, Susanna Hall, Judith Quiney

William Shakespeare's Important Works

 Romeo and Juliet (c. 1594–96) scene from Romeo and Juliet. ...
 Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598–99) ...
 Julius Caesar (c. 1599–1600) ...
 Hamlet (c. 1599–1601) ...
 King Lear (1605–06) King Lear. ...
 Macbeth (c. 1606–07) ...
 The Tempest (1611) scene from The Tempest.
 Alfred Tennyson, 1st
Baron Tennyson FRS was a British
poet. He was the Poet Laureate
during much of Queen Victoria's
reign and remains one of the most
popular British poets. In 1829,
Tennyson was awarded the
Chancellor's Gold Medal at
Cambridge for one of his first
pieces, "Timbuktu". Alfred, Lord
Tennyson was the most renowned
poet of the Victorian era. His work
includes 'In Memoriam,' 'The
Charge of the Light Brigade' and
'Idylls of the King.'

Born: 6 August 1809, Somersby, United Kingdom

Died: 6 October 1892, Lurgashall, United Kingdom
Spouse: Emily, Lady Tennyson (m. 1850–1892)
Nationality: British, English
Poetic Success

"The Princess" (1847), a long narrative poem, was Tennyson's next

notable work. But he hit a career high note with "In Memoriam" (1850). The
elegiac creation, which contains the famous lines, "’Tis better to have loved
and lost / Than never to have loved at all," incorporated Tennyson's sorrow
about his friend Arthur Hallam's death. It greatly impressed readers and won
Tennyson many admirers. In addition to addressing his feelings about losing
Hallam, "In Memoriam" also speaks to the uncertainty that many of
Tennyson's contemporaries were grappling with at the time. Geologists had
shown that the planet was much older than stated in the Bible; the existence
of fossils also contradicted the story of creation. Having read books such as
Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33), Tennyson was well aware of
these developments.

Tennyson, who had learned he did not have epilepsy and was feeling
more financially secure, had reconnected with Emily Sellwood (it was she who
suggested the title "In Memoriam"). The two were married in June 1850.
Later that year, Queen Victoria selected Tennyson to succeed William
Wordsworth as England's new poet laureate.

Tennyson was the leading poet of the Victorian age; as that era ended, his
reputation began to fade. Though he will likely never again be as acclaimed as
he was during his lifetime, today Tennyson is once more recognized as a
gifted poet who delved into eternal human questions, and who offered both
solace and inspiration to his audience.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English
journalist, short-story writer, poet, and
novelist. He was born in India, which inspired
much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction
include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many
short stories, including "The Man Who Would
Be King".
Born: 30 December 1865, Mumbai, India
Died: 18 January 1936, London, United
Kingdom
Short stories: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The Man
Who Would Be King…
Children: John Kipling, Josephine
Kipling, Elsie Bambridge

 English short-story writer, poet, and

novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his
tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He
received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
 He published the verse collection Departmental Ditties in 1886, the
short-story collection Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and between
1887 and 1889 he brought out six paper-covered volumes of short stories.
Among the latter were Soldiers Three, The Phantom
Rickshaw (containing the story “The Man Who Would Be King”),
and Wee Willie Winkie (containing “Baa Baa, Black Sheep”).
 When Kipling returned to England in 1889, his reputation had preceded
him, and within a year he was acclaimed as one of the most brilliant prose
writers of his time. His fame was redoubled upon the publication in 1892
of the verse collection Barrack-Room Ballads, which contained such
popular poems as “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” and “Danny Deever.” Not
since the English poet Lord Byron had such a reputation been achieved so
rapidly.
 Besides numerous short-story collections and poetry collections such
as The Seven Seas (1896), Kipling published his best-known novels in the
1890s and immediately thereafter. His novel The Light That
Failed (1890) is the story of a painter going blind and spurned by the
woman he loves. Captains Courageous (1897), in spite of its sense of
adventure, is burdened by excessive descriptive writing. Kim (1901),
about an Irish orphan in India, is a classic. The Jungle Book (1894)
and The Second Jungle Book (1895) are stylistically superb collections of
stories. These books give further proof that Kipling excelled at telling a
 story but was inconsistent in producing balanced, cohesive novels.
 In 1902 Kipling bought a house at Burwash, Sussex, which remained his
home until his death. Sussex was the background of much of his later
writing—especially in Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906) and Rewards and
Fairies (1910), two volumes that, although devoted to simple dramatic
presentations of English history, embodied some of his deepest intuitions.
 In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Englishman to
be so honoured.
 Kipling’s poems and stories were extraordinarily popular in the late 19th
and early 20th century, but after World War I his reputation as a serious
writer suffered through his being widely viewed as a jingoistic imperialist.
 Kipling, it should be noted, wrote much and successfully for children—for
the very young in Just So Stories (1902) and for others in The Jungle
Book and its sequel and in Puck of Pook’s Hill and Rewards and Fairies.
Of his miscellaneous works, the more notable are a number of early travel
sketches collected in two volumes in From Sea to Sea (1899) and the
unfinished Something of Myself, posthumously published in 1941,
a reticent essay in autobiography.