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Letrery personalities

Presenter:H.Basheer ahmad

Submit to:Ma,am:Muneeba Saeed

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Geoffrey Chaucer 1340 – 1400

He was born in London .He was father of English poetry . work . Troilus and Criseyde: 1385 The house fame: 1380 The legend of good

women; The Canterbury tales

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Edmund Spenser 1552 – 1599

Edmund Spenser, (born 1552/53, London, England—died January 13, 1599, London), English poet whose long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the English language. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza. Major works The Ruines of Time"The Teares of the Muses"Virgil's Gnat"Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale"Ruines of Rome : by bellay Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie"Visions of the Worlds Vanitie"

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Ben Jonson 1573 – 1637

Ben Jonson a contemporary of Shakespeare and a prominent dramatist of his times:He also made his plays realistic rather then romantic: Major works: The white devil: 1612 In the Apologetic. A Nymph's PassionThe Hour-GlassMy Picture Left in Scotland AudioAgainst Jealousy The Dream

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John Milton 1608 – 1674

Milton was the greatest poet of the puritan age :

Though Milton praised Spenser , Shakespeare , and ben Jonson as poets, he was different from all of them .

Major work : Paradise Lost Areopagitica The Portable Milton The Tenure of Kings and

Magistrates

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John Dryden 1631 – 1700

English poet, dramatist, and literary critic who so dominated the literary scene of his day that it came to be known as the Age of Dryden: Work Astraea Redux : 1660 The wild gallant : 1663 The Indian Emperour : 1665 The mistake husband : 1667 All for love : 1678

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Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744

Pope is considered as the greatest poet of the classicism period:

He is prince of classicism as professor: He was invalid of small stature and delicate

constitution, whose bad nerves and cruel headaches made his own phase a long diseas

Pastorals :1709 An Essay on Criticism: 1711 Messiah:1712 The Rape of the Lock:1712

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Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784

Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, novelist, puritan, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.

Major works The Rambler: The idler Resselas:The patriot:The Adventure:

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Joseph Addison 1672 – 1714

He was an English novelist, poet, dramatist, and politician. He was the first son of The Respected Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. Works The spectator : The vision of Mirzah : The guardian : A Tragedy and selected essays

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Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754

 Novelist and dramatist, who, with Samuel Richardson, is considered a founder of the English novel. Among his major novels are Joseph Andrews: Work The temple beau :1730 The Modern Husband :1732 The mock Doctor : 1733 The Lottery :17735 The miser :1735

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Jane Austen 1775 – 1817

While not widely known in her own time, Austen's comic novels of love among the landed gentry gained popularity after 1869, and her reputation skyrocketed in the 20th century. Work Emma :1815 Persuasion : 1817 Lady Susan : 1810

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William words worth 1770 – 1850

He was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). WorkLocy gray

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834

 A friend to poet William Wordsworth,Coleridge was a founder of the English Romantic Movement. His best known poems are "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan," the latter of which was reportedly written under the influence of opium. Work The watchman :1970The friends :1969Lay sermous : 1972Lectures 1795 on polities and Religion : 1971

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Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822

Born in Broad bridge Heath, England, on August 4, 1792, Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the epic poets of the 19th century, and is best known for his classic anthology verse works such as Ode to the West Wind and The Masque of Anarchy. He is also well known for his long-form poetry, including Queen Mab and Alastor Major work On death :1816The revolt of Islam : 1817 Ozymandias : 1818To a skylark :1820Men of England : 1819

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John Keats 1795 – 1821

John Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31 October 1795 to Thomas Keats and his wife, born Frances Jennings. He was a very bad evidence of his exact birthplace: Major workTo hope :To homer :To Autumn :Roben hood :On the sea :

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George Gordon Byron 1788 – 1824

6th Baron Fr (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet, peer, politician, and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. ... He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi

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Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892

Tennyson was born in England. He was born into a middle-class line of Tennysons, but also had a noble and noble stock. His father, George Clayton Tennyson (1778–1831), was rector of Somersby (1807–1831), also rector of  (1802–1831) and vicar of  (1815). Rev. George Clayton Tennyson raised a large family and "was a man of superior abilities and varied attainments, who tried his hand with fair success in architecture, painting, music, and poetry:

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Robert Browning 1812 – 1889

(7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. 4works. The Patriot The Last Ride Together Memorabilia Cleon How It Strikes a Contemporary The Statue and the Bust A Grammarian's Funeral

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Matthew Arnold 1822 – 1888

(24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Mojer worksThe study of poetry : 1880 The function of criticism : 1884Sohrab and Rustam : 1883

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Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, England in 1840. As a novelist he is best known for his work set in the semi-fictionalized county of Wessex including, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. He was also an accomplished poet. Hardy died in 1928. Mojar works The return of the native : 1878 Under the greenwood tree : 1872 The poor man and the lady :1867

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Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941

eline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. works Mrs. Dalloway : 1925Night and day :1919To the lighthouse : 1927The year :1937Between the acts : 1941

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George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950

George Bernard Shaw, (born July 26, 1856, Dublin, Ire.—died Nov. 2, 1950, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, Eng.), Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.:

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James Joyce 1882 – 1941

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Major work The dead :1914 Araby :1914 Eveline : 1904 The Little :1898 The sisters : 1915

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Thomas Stern Eliot 1888 – 1965

Thomas Stearns Eliot On (26 September 1888 4 January 1965) was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". He moved from his native United States to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. The Waste Land (1922) The Hollow Men (1925) Ariel Poems (1927–1954) Journey of the Magi (1927) A Song for Simeon (1928)

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John Donne 1572 – 1632

John Donne was born on January 22, 1572, in London, England. He is known as the founder of the Metaphysical Poets, a term created by Samuel Johnson, an eighteenth-century English essayist, poet, and philosopher. Work

The air and angels : Poem and prose : Metaphysical poetry :

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George Herbert 1593 – 1633

George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh-born poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists.“

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Richard Crashaw 1612 – 1649

Richard Crashaw ( 1613 – 21 August 1649), was an English poet, teacher, Anglican cleric and Catholic convert, who was among the major figures associated with the metaphysical poets in seventeenth-century English literature. Major works On the Water of our Lord's Baptism On the Baptized Ethiopian On the Miracle of multiplied Loaves On the Sepulchre of our Lord The Widow's Mites On the Prodigal