of Saxon poetry and promised to make a gift of it to the first of them who was able to read it. Alfred quickly learned to read it aloud, and was made a gift of the book when he was only six years old. Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it. This story may be true, or
of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England
One of the most popular novels in English literature
Receives considerable attention from literary scholars
“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disd
The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792. 08. 04 시골남부귀족의 아들로 England Fieldplace 출생
1811년 <무신론의 필연성> 소책자의 출판 , 배포로 옥스포드 퇴학
16살의 해리엇 웨스트브룩과 결혼
1816년 혁명적 사상가 고드윈과 교류하며 그의 딸 메리와 연애
가정의 파탄을 비관한 해리엇의 투신자살 후 메리와 재
Moore to Pound, Jan 9, 1919
…I was born in 1887 and brought up in the home of my grandfather, a clergyman of the Presbyterian church. I am Irish by descent, possibly Scotch also, but purely Celtic, was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1909 and taught shorthand, typewriting and commercial law at the government Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1911 to 1915. In 1916, my mother and I left
Emily Dickinson?
-Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
(1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts.)
-From 1840, Dickinson spent 7yrs at Amherst Academy.
‘very bright’ and ‘excellent student’.
-Attended the South Hadley Female Seminary, but after only one year at the seminary, returned in 1848 to Amherst where she began her life of seclusion.
-Around 1850 she began writing poetry.
First poems