William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright, actor

The characters of Romeo and Juliet have been depicted in literature, music, dance, and theatre. The appeal of the young hero and heroine—whose families, the Montagues and the Capulets, respectively, are implacable enemies—is such that they have become, in the popular imagination, the representative type of star-crossed lovers.

(1564-1616)

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Charles John Huffam Dickens, an English writer and social critic. (1812 – 1870) Dicken's late novel (Great Expectations) is a masterpiece of psychological and moral truth.

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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, an English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. He was a poet laureate of the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria. (1809 – 1892)

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Euripides, one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens.

He has been called the philosopher of the stage.

(c. 480 – 406 BC)

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Robert Lee Frost, an American poet. He is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry. (1874 – 1963)

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Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen), an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. She became famous for her nonlinear prose style (1882 – 1941)

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Matthew Arnold, English Victorian poet and literary and social critic. He is noted especially for his classical attacks on the contemporary tastes and manners of the “Barbarians” (the aristocracy), the “Philistines” (the commercial middle class), and the “Populace.” (1822 – 1888)

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Samuel Barclay Beckett, an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet

He is known for depicting a world of abject misery, failure, and absurdity in his many plays, novels, short stories, and poetry.

(1906 -1989)

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Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis), an Irish-born poet and novelist.

He was also a British poet Laureate from 1968, until he died in 1972. The post of Poet Laureate is a special honour awarded to a poet whose work is of national significance.

 (1904 –1972)

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James Mercer Langston Hughes, an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

He is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties.

(1902 – 1967)

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John Milton, an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.

He is best known for writing Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English.

(1608 – 1674)

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Edward FitzGerald, an English poet and writer

He is best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Rubāʿī is a poetry style. It is used to describe a Persian quatrain, or its derivative form in English and other languages.

(1809 – 1883)

George Gordon Byron, an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.

The concept of nature was seen as a healing and spiritual force in the Romantic period.

(1788–1824)

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Sylvia Plath, an American poet and writer

She published her first poem at the age of eight.

(1932-1963)

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Thomas Hardy, an English novelist and poet.

He is mainly known for his contribution in the naturalist movement.

(1840 – 1928)

Virginia Woolf, a British writer & novelist

(1882-1941)

This excerpt is from the recorded voice of Virginia Woolf. The talk was called "Craftsmanship", and it was a part of a BBC radio broadcast from April 29th, 1937. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8czs8v6PuI

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Edgar Allen Poe, an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement

-famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery, including "The Raven"

(1809-1849)

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