William Collins - Biography and Works
William Collins was one of the most influential English poet of the mid-18th century literature. He was born as the son of a mayor and was educated in The Prebendal School and Megdalen College.
Phillis Wheatley - Biography and Works
Phillis Wheatley was born in Senegal in 1753 and she was brought in a slave ship to Boston, Massachusetts. She was then bought by John Wheatley for his wife. Phillis was given a chance to education because of her intelligence and Mary Wheatley, the daughter of John Wheatley, took the responsibility to teach her. She amazingly mastered in Latin, Greek, English and theology in no time.
Virginia Woolf - Biography and Works
Virginia Woolf was the daughter of the eminent Victorian critic and scholar, Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Stephen, and was one of the great women writers of the 20th century. She occupies a position of importance in 20th century fiction, for she gave to the stream of consciousness novel a new twist which James Joyce had not been able to impart to it. Though her brothers were sent to school, she was taught at home in English Classic and Victorian literature.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Biography and Works
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English letter writer and a poet who was from the aristocratic family of father Evelyn and mother Mary Pierrepont. As she was denied from the formal education for being a woman, she was educated at home. She learnt Latin in her father’s library. She was influenced by John Dryden and French Romanticism as like that of her other contemporary writers.
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea - Biography and Works
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea was an English poet and a courtier in the court of King James II. She was born in the family of Sir William Kingsmill his wife Anne Haslewood as the third child. She was given a good and equal education by her parents who believed that girls too have the right to education.
Aphra Behn - Biography and Works
Aphra Behn was an English Restoration poet, playwright, translator and a novelist who proudly became the first professional woman writer to earn living through writing. She became one inspirational figure for the later generation of woman writer who broke all the barriers regarding the culture of confining women into the four walls of a house and the literary barriers that put a woman down in the social strata. It is said that during her lifetime, she was popularly known as Ann Behn, Mrs Bean, agent 160 and Astrea.
Richard Lovelace - Biography and Works
Richard Lovelace was an English Cavalier poet of the 17th century. He was a devotional supporter of the King Charles I in the Civil War. He was born in the well to do family of Sir William Lovelace and Anne Barne Lovelace as the eldest son. Though his birthplace is unknown, it is assumed that he was born in the Netherlands in the Kentish family. Kentish are well known for the expert soldiers.
George Herbert - Biography and Works
George Herbert was an English poet born in Welsh, also known as the orator, Anglican priest, devotional lyricist, and broadly significant figure in his era who died early at the age of 39. As he was born in a rich family of Sir Richard Herbert and mother Magdalen, he was admitted in Trinity College, Cambridge in 1609 to become a priest, but he developed himself as the public orator.
Robert Herrick - Biography and Works
Robert Herrick was a 17th century famous English lyric poet ever born. He was born in the family of goldsmith Nicholas Herrick and Julia Stone as the seventh child in Cheapside, London. He was just one year old, his father died in a fall from the window on the fourth floor. It is believed that he joined the Merchant Taylor’s School and in 1607 he became apprenticed to his uncle William Herrick. He matriculated from St. John’s College, Cambridge at the age of 22 and later went to Trinity Hall for the graduation in 1617.
Algernon Charles Swinburne - Biography and Works
Algernon Charles Swinburne is one of the great Pre-Raphaelite poets influenced from Greek, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. His subjects were derived from romanticism, medievalism, and his hatred towards the conventional morality.