Art And Literature

Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is an author, poet, critic, essayist, feminist and social campaigner.
Atwood is the second of three children of Margaret Dorothy, a former dietitian and nutritionist, and Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist. She was a lover of literature from her very early life, [...]

Sri Chinmoy Ghose was born in 1931 in East Bengal, India— today’s Bangladesh. He was the youngest of seven children. He lost his father to illness in 1943, and his mother a few months later. Orphaned, in 1944 the 12-year-old Ghose joined his brothers and sisters at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, French India, [...]

“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many — they are few.” (P. B. Shelley)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Horsham, Sussex, England. He was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the [...]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in the rural town of Ottery St Mary, Devon, England. He was a poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher. He with his friend William Wordsworth, founded the Romantic Movement in England. He was also, one of the Lake Poets.
About his childhood, Coleridge suggests that he “took [...]

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) was the arch representative of the Romanticism in English Literature. He along with his contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the age of Romantic poetry.
Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth, Cumberland. His boyhood was full of adventure among the hills, and he says of himself that he showed “a stiff, moody, and violent temper.” [...]

George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788. His names changed through out his life. he was born to Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon. He was also known as Lord George Gordon Noel Byron and commonly as Lord Byron. Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.
Byron spent his [...]

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for [...]

William Blake (1757-1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th- century. Misunderstanding shadowed his career as a writer and artist and it was left to later generations to recognize his importance.
Blake [...]

Oscar Wilde was born on 16th October 1854. in Dublin, Ireland. His parents were well known and attracted their fare share of gossip for their extravangant lifestyles. In 1964 his father Wille Wilde was knighted for his services to medicine. However his pride in receiving this honour was overshadowed by an allegation of rape by [...]

English author often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850; he was appointed by Queen Victoria and served 42 years. Tennyson’s works were melancholic, and reflected the moral and intellectual values of his time, which made them especially vulnerable for later critic.
Alfred, Lord [...]