Foreign author Biography

To each author we will attach a fragment of the work with the translation. We hope this selection will inspire you to start reading some book in English. The biography of the famous English poets will begin in chronological order on the date of birth of the authors: from the earliest English poets to later. It was WYATT that introduced the Sonnet genre into English literature, in which Shakespeare later succeeded.

During the short life of Thomas, his poems spread exclusively as manuscripts. For a wide edition, they were considered too vulgar. Here is a fragment from his sonnet: Eech Man Me Telleth I Change Most My Devise and On My Faith, Methink It Good Reason to Change Purpose, Like after the Seach Case to Keep Still One Guise. Is meet for them that woold be taken wise and i am not of such manner condition "How changeable are you!

And I think that it is not to change the striving: not for the winter - let the taste of my times be determined. Without changing the wise, they want to spill out; but I have a different fame. The attention is that in the first sentence in this fragment the classic order of words is violated. In poetry, this is a frequent phenomenon. See also: Inversion in English. Some rumors backed by evidence say that the poet was Anna Boleyn’s lover, and it is reliably known that during his short imprisonment in London Tower, he witnessed the execution of her five alleged lovers and the execution of Anna herself.

William Shakespeare Shakespeare's sonnets are often painful, painful, ironic and vulnerable. They are probably dated to the middle of the 10ths, but were not published up to a year and were mysteriously devoted to some “MR who”. This figure is usually identified as William Herbert, the third Count of Southampton, which was the patron of Shakespeare. We catch glimpses of self -doubt and disgust for himself Shakespeare when he looks in the mirror and sees the “furrows of time” on his face, which is “beaten and chopped up by tanned antiquity”.

Read other Shakespeare's sonnets in this article: Shakespeare's sonnets in the original and the complexity of the translation. There we are also analyzing why the artistic translation is so different from the original, because it is noticeable even in a short passage higher. About four fifth sonnets are addressed to Herbert, and approximately a fifth of the dark Madame Dark Lady, whose personality is not established.

However, the personality of the writer himself is also doubtful. According to some experts, Shakespeare is just a pseudonym, under which one or more authors were anonymously published. Anway, whoever Shakespeare, is one of the most famous authors in the world. He gave the world a huge literary heritage, starting with a sonnet and ending with legendary plays, such as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.

Moreover, the author introduced into English a whole layer of new words that have never been used before. Here is a selection of words that Shakespeare invented. John Clare - despite the fact that he was born in the village of Helpstone, in the year, worked as a field worker, John Claire was always fascinated by poetry. In the preface, he was described as a peasant poet, while in fact he was very well -read and after his death in the year left a library of more than books.

Oh, can I die until I was destined to look for this last source of hope, but meager; Demand modest pennies once a week, what is the forces of justice from a contemptuous pride! Claire was called the English Burns Robert Burns - a Scottish poet of the late 18th century, but John did not reach Burns in terms of spirit, and in the end he was placed in the psychiatric hospital of Northgempton, where he died.

In his verses, attentive observation of nature shows how drops of rain “wash the stream”, and he often uses the dialect of Nordgemptonshire. He is fascinated by rural sounds and describes the “shuffling” of the legs when walking in fresh snow. An interesting detail: the author has never used punctuation. His poems are published in an oral manner in which he wrote them. However, this does not mean that you can not teach punctuation either.

Read the article on our blog: English punctuation. Robert Browning - Robert Browning should be considered the most important Victorian poet. He was born in the year. His father was a clerk in the bank of England and Liberal, and his mother was a devout non -conformist, and therefore Browning was supposed to visit the University College in London, which was opened for non -conformists.

In the year, he met Elizabeth Barrett and next year he fled to her to Italy. All his verses are dramatic monologues, and his longest poem The Ring and the Book, numbering more than 20 lines, was published in the year. After the death of Elizabeth, Robert returned to London. He never married again. He had a romantic relationship with Lady Ashburton, and Robert even made her an offer, but she refused.His most famous poem is My Last Duchess, in which the ominous Italian Duke of the Renaissance talks about his marriage with the duchess and hints that out of jealousy he killed her, although she is clearly innocent.

I Said here is a portrait of my wife, the last duchess on the wall. You must admit: it is incomparable. Fra Pandolfo worked day, and she appeared alive, even though she was not there. Sit down and look at the portrait. The poem was fascinated by Henry James, who knew Browning, and was amazed at how rude, bourgeois and ordinary he seemed in society, and at the same time was such a seer in his imaginary life.

Thomas Hardy - Curiosity to the world was a feature of Hardy from the very beginning. As a boy, living in the cottage of his parents in Lower BockHampton, a few miles from Dorcheter, he remembered that at eight in the morning the people were to hang a person on the walls of the pre -Chess prison. Hardy ran out to the wasteland, brought his paternal telescope pipe to the eye and saw a white figure falling down when the city clock was piercing eight.

" He went home in horror. Hardy learned to be an architect and worked in London, where he began to write poetry and novels. In the year, he went to Cornwall to restore the church, and there he fell in love with a girl named Emma Lavinia Gifford. They got married in the year. Hardy became a writer at full rate, but his marriage turned into misfortune. But the first lines of one of his most famous poems is The Darkling Thrush.

The Tangled Bine-Stems Scored the Sky Like Strings of Broken Lyres, and All Mankind that Haunted Nig Had South their Household Fires. The forest languished behind the gate.