Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, literary critic, novelist, representative of the avant-garde literature. He became well- known for his experimental verse and for his support of avant-garde art movements such as Cubism.

Rilke is one of the most influential modernist poets of the XXth century. He was born in Prague, had Austrian citizenship, wrote in German.

William Shakespeare works marked the completion of the process of creation of English language and culture, brought closure to the European Renaissance.

He had a long life: he lived seventy years, but attained international fame posthumously. However, Blake pays attention to his image even now.

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen is an outstanding English poet. In the years of the 1st World War, he was the company commander on the French front, he was awarded the Military cross for courage; died on the eve of the armistice.

The poetess’s brilliant sense of humor forces thousands of the English to buy collections of her poems annually. Cope’s irony is laughing through tears, jokes of a person, who learned the London life loneliness, its frustrations and inspirations.

Walter De La Mare is a known English poet, writer, novelist, essayist, critic, folklorist most famous for his works for children. The writer earned his living since the age of sixteen, because his family lived in poverty.

William Butler Yeats was one of the major English-language poets of the XXth century. He got the Nobel Prize for Literature in the 1923.

Sara Trevor Teasdale was one of the best-selling poets of the beginning of the XXth century, Teasdale used traditional poetic forms to show her own attitudes toward love, beauty, and solitude.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is an English poet- romantic, an outstanding representative of the «Lake school», which determined the development of the English poetry of the 19th century, a critic and a philosopher.