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Evergreen Classics
The World of
English poetry
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-uponAvon on April 23, 1564.
He was an English poet and playwright, widely
regarded as the greatest writer in the English
language and the world's preeminent dramatist.
He is often called England's national poet and the
"Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His
surviving works consist of 38 plays,154 sonnets,
two long narrative poems, and several other
poems. His plays have been translated into every
major living language and are performed more
often than those of any other playwright.
William Blake (1757 – 1827)
English poet, painter, and printmaker.
Largely unrecognized during his
lifetime, Blake is now considered a
seminal figure in the history of both
the poetry and visual arts of the
Romantic Age.
The Great Red
Dragon and the
Woman Clothed
with Sun (1805)
Newton (1795)
Ancient of Days
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
He was a major English Romantic poet who
helped to launch the Romantic Age in English
literature with the 1798 joint publication
Lyrical Ballads.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst,
Massachusetts to a successful family with strong community ties, she
lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. Fewer than a dozen of her
nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.
Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they
contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often utilize slant rhyme.
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
He was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely
regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is
celebrated worldwide. He is regarded as a pioneer of the
Romantic movement and after his death became a great
source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism
and socialism.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Henry Longfellow was an American educator and poet whose works
include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline".
He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The
Divine Comedy. Longfellow mostly wrote lyric poems which are known
for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and
legend.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
He was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, British India (now
Mumbai), he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894)
(a collection of stories which includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Kim (1901) (a tale
of adventure), many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King
(1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and
If— (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short
story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
He was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Best
known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the
earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the
inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Poe and his work appear
throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television.
A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.
Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)
He was an American poet and playwright. He is highly regarded for
his realistic depictions of rural life. A popular and often-quoted
poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving
four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.
Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
He was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer and editor.
Kilmer is remembered most for a poem entitled Trees (1913), which was
published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. While most of his
works are unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are
published frequently in anthologies. A sergeant in the 165th U.S. Infantry
Regiment, Kilmer was killed at the Second Battle of Marne in 1918 at the
age of 31.
JRR Tolkien (1892 – 1973)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist,
and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high
fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The
Silmarillion. While many other authors had published works of
fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord
of the Rings when they were published in paperback in the United
States led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused
Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy
literature. Tolkien's writings have inspired many other works of
fantasy and have had a lasting effect on the entire field. In 2008, The
Times ranked him sixth on a list of 'The 50 greatest British writers
since 1945.
Tolkien's monogram
Children’s Writers
and Poets
Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen
name Lewis Carroll, was an English author,
mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and
photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the
Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the
Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the
genre of literary nonsense. There are societies dedicated to
the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the
investigation of his life in many parts of the world
including United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and
New Zealand.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894)
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, was a Scottish
novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson was
greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis
Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir
Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton.
Stevenson was a celebrity in his own time, but with the
rise of modern literature after World War I, he was
seen for much of the 20th century as a writer of the
second class, relegated to children's literature and horror
genres. Stevenson is ranked the 25th most translated
author in the world
Alan Alexander Milne (1882 – 1956)
Alan Alexander Milne was an English author,
best known for his books about the teddy bear
Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's
poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a
playwright, before the huge success of Pooh
overshadowed all his previous work.
The real stuffed toys owned by Christopher
Robin Milne and featured in the Winnie-thePooh stories. They are on display in the
Donnell Library Center in New York.
Roald Dahl (1916 – 1990)
Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer
and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian
parents. After service in the Royal Air Force during
the Second World War, in which he became a flying
ace, he rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for
both children and adults, and became one of the
world's bestselling authors. His short stories are
known for their unexpected endings, and his children's
books for their unsentimental, often very dark humour.
Some of his most popular books include The Twits,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the
Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches and The BFG.
Spike Milligan (1918 – 2002)
Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan, known as Spike Milligan,
was an Anglo-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet and
playwright. Aside from comedy, Milligan played the trumpet,
saxophone, piano, guitar and bass drum. Milligan also wrote verse,
considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. His poetry
has been described as "absolutely immortal - greatly in the tradition
of Lear". His most famous poem, On the Ning Nang Nong, was
voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll,
ahead of other nonsense poets including Lewis Carroll and Edward
Lear. This nonsense verse, set to music, became a favourite
Australia-wide, performed week after week by the ABC children's
programme Playschool.
Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky (born in Brooklyn, New York, on
September 8, 1940) is the author of more than 50
poetry collections including Nightmares: Poems to
Trouble Your Sleep (1976), The Mean Old Mean
Hyena (1978), and Something BIG Has Been Here
(1990). He has also compiled numerous children's
anthologies comprising poems of others. He
currently lives in Washington State with his wife,
Carolyn.He has also set his poems to music on the
audio versions of his anthologies. He often sings
and plays guitar on most of them. In 2006, the
Poetry Foundation named Prelutsky the inaugural
winner of the Children’s Poet Laureate award.
Russian Poets,
translated into English
Alexander Pushkin
(1799-1837)
Nikolai Gumilyov
(1886 - 1921)
Aleksandr Blok
(1880 - 1921)
Boris Pasternak
(1890 - 1960)
• Автор: Альшанская Оксана Викторовна,
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