Andrew Marwell was an English metaphysical poet, born in Winestead, England in 1621. He was furthermore satirist and a politician. He was...

He is popularly known as “The Last Cowboy” according to the Wall Street Journal and is presently one of the most successful entrepreneurs a

Francis Bacon was born on 22nd January 1561 in London. He was known as ‘Lord Verulam’ who was an English philosopher, a statesman who...

Gerald Manly Hopkins (1844-1889), one of the eminent poets of the Victorian period, is also known being a Jesuit Priest. Although his...

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, popularly known as R.K. Naryanan (1906- 2001) was an Indian author who has won many prominent...

A.K. Ramanujan (6 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) is well known for his eminent works in English Literature. He can speak Tamil, English,...

Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Missouri, US. Belonging to the Harlem Renaissance period, he has contributed most to the...

Nissim Ezekiel also known as the Father of Modern Indian English, made his way into the English textbooks as an impact of his tremendous...

Stephen Leacock was born on 30th December 1869 in Hampshire, England. Years after migrating to Canada, he attended the University of...

AUTHOR INTRODUCTION Rabindranath Tagore, a man of many talents, was a songwriter, novelist, painter, and playwright who was born, raised...

William Blake Brief bio:- William Blake was born on November 28, 1757, as the third child among five in London. James Blake, his father,...

Hector Hugh Munro, who has a pen name Saki, was born in Akyab on December 18, 1870 (British Burma). His father Charles Augustus Munro was...

John Donne was born on 22nd January 1572. He was born into a well-doing merchant family in London, United Kingdom. He attended the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, poet, and transcendentalist, was born on May 25 in Boston, the United States of America to a...

John Keats was born in London, England, on October 31, 1795, to Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings as the oldest son of their four...

SOPHOCLES TIMELINE 497-96 B.C.E--------> Sophocles was born. 468--------------------> He got the first prize for tragedy at the festival...

Sophocles was born on 497/6 in Attica into a wealthy family. He is known for his new innovations in dramatic structure and development....

Judith Wright Brief Bio:- Judith Arundell Wright, born on 31st May 1915, came from a prominent pastoralist family. She was an Australian...

Marlene Naubese Philip (born on February 3, 1947) is a Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer. She was...

1921 -----> Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara was born on 24 April at Bumoundi in Yenogoa Local Government Area of Rivers State in the...

John Maxwell Coetzee (born on 9 February) is a South African- born novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. He currently lives in...

1879 -----> Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. 1897 -----> Did Undergraduate in Harvard and enrolled as a special...

Sylvia Plath- Brief Bio: Sylvia Plath, a prolific and influential American poet, and writer, was born in Boston in 1932. From an early...

Sylvia Plath Life Timeline: 1932 -----> She was born as the first child of Aurelia Schober and Otto Emil Plath on October 27 in Boston....

Walt Whitman was a part of transcendentalism and realism which are reflected in his works. He was an American Poet, essayist, and...

Robert Frost, the American Poet, a playwright, and the only poet who won the Pulitzer Prize four times was born in San Francisco,...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, preacher, lecturer, poet, and essayist, is perhaps the most central figure of the American Renaissance. Emerson was...

Syed Amanuddin was born in Mysore (1934). He had his under graduation and post-graduation in India later he had his Doctor of Philosophy...

Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, India in 1956 but grew up and educated in the USA. She is married to a German and lives in Bremen....

His prose and verse narratives, and lyrics His final Years: Lodge’s final volume of poetry was published in 1595, A Fig for Momus:...

His Plays: His prose and verse narratives, and lyrics: After dealing with theater plays, Thomas Lodge turned to the other forms of...

The End of the Pamphlet War His Plays: After his only qualified success as a writer of pamphlets, romances, and poems, he turned to other...

Euphuistic Style The End of the Pamphlet War: Lodge tired of the literary controversy that had gotten out of control; moreover, no future...

Literary Quarrel: Euphuistic Style: Aside from content, the style of the Reply deserves some comment, for it is the style that Lodge uses...

The religious forces and Elizabethan methods that influenced him: Literary Quarrel: In order to arouse comments, criticism began in the...

His Life and Education: The religious forces and Elizabethan methods that influenced him: In the 1570s, the Puritan interests in England...

His Life and Education: Most readers know Thomas Lodge as a writer of lyrics and prose romances; few know the variety of his writings,...

His Pamphlets and Controversies His Final Works and his place in English Literature In his pamphlet Lenten Stuffe written in 1598, he...

His Life His Pamphlets and Controversies His first printed essay is his preface to Robert Greene’s romance, Menaphon (1589). Upon his...

His Life: Thomas Nashe was born in 1567 in Lowestoft, Suffolk; third son to the second wife of William Nashe. He moved with his family to...

1795 -----> Keats was born at Swan and Hoop Livery Stables, London (October 31) 1797 -----> George Keats was born (February 28) 1799...

1788 -----> George Gordon Byron was born on January 22 in London. 1790 -----> Byron moved to Aberdeen along with his mother. 1791 ----->...

Toru, the youngest of the three children of Mr. and Mrs. Govin Chunder Dutt, was born in her father’s house in Rambagan, Calcutta on 4th...

1792 -----> He was born at Field Place in August 4. 1811 -----> Wrote Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson with T. J. Hogg....

Francis Reginal Scott (1899- 1985) was born in Quebec City. He was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. He was one of...

William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth in 1770 as the second of five children (Richard, William, Dorothy, John, and Christopher). He...

JOHN SKELTON: § He is an unjustly neglected figure of English literature (as he fits neither in the medieval period nor in the...

THOMAS MALORY: § Le Marte D` Arthur is the prose version of the story of King Arthur and his round table under one title and eight...

THOMAS HOCCLEVE: § His works are semi- autobiographical. Consists of the first description of the mental breakdown in English literature....

JOHN LYDGATE: § A key figure of his age just as important and influential as Chaucer. § His works are largely historical. § The Fall of...