Literature

English novelist, noted particularly for the insight and delicate irony of her portrayal of middle-class families.

British writer of ballads and historical novels, a genre he developed. His works include Waverley (1814) and Ivanhoe (1819).

British feminist and writer, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792); wife of William Godwin and mother of Mary Shelley.

William Blake, born in London where he spent all but three years of his life, was both poet and visionary artist.

English Romantic poet; major works include Don Juan (1819-24) and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18).

British poet; author of spurious medieval verse and prose: he committed suicide at the age of 17.

English poet, critic, and philosopher; well-known for poems such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) and Kubla Khan (1816).

English poet. His finest poetry is contained in Lamia and other Poems (1820), which includes The Eve of St Agnes, Hyperion, and the odes On a Grecian Urn, To a Nightingale, To Autumn, and To Psyche.

English poet and essayist. He lived much of his life abroad, dying in Florence, where he had fled to avoid a libel suit in 1858.

Poet and political thinker, born at Field Place, near Horsham, West Sussex, S England, UK.

Southey was born at Bristol on 12 August 1774, and died at his home near Keswick, Cumberland, on 21 March 1843.

English poet, born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. One of the great English poets, he was a leader of the romantic movement in England.