Category Archives: Biographies

Biography of Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski was an American writer, poet, novelist and journalist. He was a representative of the so-called “dirty realism”. His European popularity left behind his American fame.

Biography of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer, or to be precise, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a philosopher, a critic and an esthete.

Biography of Stevie Smith

The real name of the British poetess and novelist was Florence Margaret Smith. The name Stevie she took herself, because her friend found her look like the popular jockey Steve Donoghue.

Biography of Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes was an English poet and children’s writer. Critics rate him as one of the best poets of his generation. In 2011, he was immortalized in the Poets` corner of Westminster Abbey.

Biography of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was the most influential representative of romanticism in English literature. His creative work defined the transition from classicism to romanticism. His landscape and philosophical lyric poetry became the best model of the world’s poetic heritage.

Biography of Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was called a human chameleon. No one could ever tell, what kind of person he really was: a white person born in India; the hope of the family and an abandoned child; a storyteller and a “singer of British imperialism”.