Aspects of Literature

  Alexander Pushkin was, by common consent, Russia’s greatest poet. He was also the heroic ideal of the Romantic poet. He was born in 1799...

On 12 th December 1889 the poet Robert Browning died in Venice at the age of 77. It has to be admitted that Browni...

Her early life Sylvia Plath was born on 27 th October 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Otto Plath, was a...

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on 26 th September 1888 in St Louis , Missouri , USA , the seventh and easily the younges...

Edmund Charles Blunden was born in London on 1 st November 1896, the eldest of nine children of schoolteacher parents....

Early life Philip (Arthur) Larkin was born in Coventry on 9 th August 1922. His father was Coventry ’s city treasurer....

William Blake was born on 28 November 1757 in London . His father James was a dealer in hosiery (stockings). William was...