5. Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)[1] was an English poet. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Famous as short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children.

Notable work(s):

‘The Jungle Book’;

’ Kim’ (1901)

6. T. Hughes

Thomas Hughes (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer and author of 19 century. Representative of literary movement of HARLEM RENAISSANCE.

Genres – Children's Literature

He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).

Hughes died in 1896 aged 73, at Brighton, of heart failure; and is buried there. His daughter, Lilian, perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. His other daughter, Mary, was a well known Poor Law guardian опекун and volunteer visitor to the local Poor Law infirmary больница and children's home.

7. W.Saroyan

William Saroyan (31 August 1908 – 18 May 1981) was an Armenian American dramatist and author of 20 century.

Notable work(s):

‘The Time of Your Life’ (1939);

‘My Name Is Aram’ (1940);

‘The Human Comedy’ (1943)

Saroyan was born in Fresno, California to Armenian immigrants from Bitlis in the Ottoman Empire. At the age of three, after his father's death, Saroyan was placed in the orphanage in Oakland, California, together with his brother and sister, an experience he later described in his writing. Five years later, the family reunited in Fresno, where his mother, Takoohi, secured work at a cannery. He continued his education on his own, supporting himself with such jobs as working as an office manager for the San Francisco Telegraph Company.

8. O.Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet of 19-20 century. Representative of literary movement of Aestheticism (эстетизм). After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.

Genres – Drama, short story, dialogue, journalism

Notable work(s) – ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’

Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. He proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.

9.W. Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker гравер of 18-19 century. 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.

Genres – Visionary, poetry

Literary movement – Romanticism

Notable work(s) – ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’, ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’, ‘The Four Zoas’, ‘Jerusalem’