2nd Semester Background on Authors
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17 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Lord Byron | aka George Gordyn/6th Baron of Rochdale; wild; Romantic, took tour of the world; lives with Percy/Mary Shelley in Lake Geneva; goes to Italy for health reasons; buried at Poet's Corner |
| Percy Shelley | married Mary Wollstonecraft; body washed up shore, found Keats' poems in his pocket; Byron took heart off of pyre and gave it to Mary |
| John Keats | grave health concerns; met Byron & Shelley in Italy |
| Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley | marries Percy |
| (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson | poet of the people; "The Apostles" at Cambridge; |
| Robert Browning | dramatic monologue; religious doubt |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | very smart; spoke 8 languages; overbearing dad; eloped with Robert; moved to Italy |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | Jesuit priest; converted to Roman Catholicism; original diction, rhythm |
| A.E. Housman | gay; Latin scholar |
| Rudyard Kipling | born in India; parents made him move to London; moved back to India |
| Oscar Wilde | Irish with English parents; flamboyant dress; jailed for gross indecency |
| T.S. Eliot | born in STL; amazing education; moved to England; Bloomsbury Group |
| Dylan Thomas | born/raised in Wales; very famous in his lifetime; popular US tours; died of alcoholism in NYC; role of nature, journey of life, parallelism |
| Seamus Heaney | Roman Catholic family; grew up in N. Ireland; Nobel Prize |
| Virginia Woolf | married Leonard; depressed by WWII, drowned herself; stream of consciousness |
| V.S. Naipaul | born in Trinidad to Indian immigrants; scholarship to Oxford; traveled to India and Africa; knighted |
| Doris Lessing | born in Iran to Brits; grew up in Rhodesia on maize farm; campaigns against apartheid --> works banned in S. Africa & Rhodesia; declined damehood (uncommon) |
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