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John Donne

John Donne. John was born in the year 1572 and past away in 1631. Poet John is famous for his religious poems & Sermons that he wrote mostly for funerals and such. ”No man is an island ”. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731). British writer during the enlightenment Wrote more than 500 books

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John Donne

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  1. John Donne • John was born in the year 1572 and past away in 1631. • Poet • John is famous for his religious poems & Sermons that he wrote mostly for funerals and such. • ”No man is an island”

  2. Daniel Defoe(1660-1731) • British writer during the enlightenment • Wrote more than 500 books • Robinson Crusoe • One of the earliest proponents of the novel

  3. Jonathan Swift1667-1745 • Satirical writer • “A Tale of a Tub”,“Gulliver’s Travels”,“Journal to Stella” • Dean in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral

  4. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) • London, England • Poet, Iliad and Odyssey. (Iliaden & Odysseen) • Pott's diseases (tuberkulos)

  5. England, Cockermouth • Poet of: Lyrical Ballads, Poems in two volumes, • The Excursion. • Wrote during Romanticism. • Was married 4 times! • The prospectus contains his most famous lines: • My voice proclames • How exquisitely the individual mind • ( And the progressive powers perhaps no less • Of the hole whole species) to the external World • Is fitted:-- and how exquisitely, too , Theme this but little heard of among Men, The external World is fitted to the mind. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850

  6. Jane Austen • 16 december 1775 – 18 july 1817 • English Novelist • Works of romantic fiction • She was born at Steventon, hampshire • Famous work: ”Sense and sensibilty”, ”Pride and Prejuidice”, ”Mansfield park”.

  7. Romantic poet Ode of a Grecian urn Ode of a Nightingale He wrote about a 100 poems He became more famous after his death. John Keats31 okt 1795 - 23 feb 1821

  8. Sir Walter Scott(1771-1832) British (Scotish) writer Creator of the novel genre Wrote 29 novels Ivanhoe

  9. Mary Shelley • Born 30 august 1797 Died 1 february 1851 • Gothic Roman- and novel writer • Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus • Romanticism

  10. Edgar Allen Poe January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 • American author ,Poet, editor and literary critic! • He is considered to be the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. • Some of his most famous tales are Tell-taled heart, Black cat, and The Raven. • Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic.

  11. Charlotte Brontë1816 - 1855 • Both Novelist and Poet, wrote under the name Currer Bell. • Penn name Currer Bell • Her novels are English Literature standards. • Victorian literature • Jane Eyre • Villette • Had two sisters that also wrote

  12. American journalist, poet and a essayist Wrote about death and sexuality Born in Long Island – New York Franklin Evans (1842) Leaves of grass Most infuential poet, Father of free verse Walt WhitmanMay 31 1819 – March 26 1892

  13. Emily Dickinson1830-1886 • Famous poet, wrote short poems about death • and immortality • I am nobody! Who are you? • A bird came down the walk • Heaven is what i cannot reach • Very few of her poems were published during her lifetime, it was after her death that her family found her poems that her sister later published. Even if Emily did not want to. • Emilys last wish was that they should burn her poems.

  14. Oscar ”Ogge” Wilde1854-1900 Irish Poems London's most popular playwrights (1890) Lady Windermere´s Fan Gay

  15. Virginia Woolf1882-1941 Born in London 1882, she was a brittish author and a feminist. Her most famous works are Mrs Dalloway(1925), To the lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928). Mrs Dalloway – Created from two stories Orlando – A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf’s lover Vita Sackville-west. To the lighthouse – A landmark novel of high modernism. She married her husband Leonard Woolf 1912, who also was a writer.

  16. Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie1890-1976 • Writer • Miss Marple & Ten little niggers (And then there were none) • Some of her books were evolved to games

  17. John Steinbeck(1902-1968) Characteristic: American Author Of Mice and Men, Cup of gold, The Grapes of Wrath Nobel Prize for Literature, Oscar.

  18. George Orwell1903-1950 A modern british author Animal farm , Nineteen Eighty-Four

  19. Samuel Beckett13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989 He was a Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and a poet. He was an absurdist. Theatre Waiting for Godot (1953) Come and Go (1965) Novels Murphy (1938) Samuel Beckett, awarded the Croix de guerre by General Charles de Gaulle in March, 1945.Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature

  20. Sir William Golding(1911-1993) • Novelist, poet and playwriter • Novels • Knighted • Nobel Prize

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