Paul Marie Verlaine is a French poet, one of the originators of literary impressionism and symbolism. In Verlaine’s lyric, the surrounding world, its phenomena including nature are not real and are just some signals of internal state of mind.

E. Atwood is a Canadian English-speaking writer, a poet, a critic, a feminist. She was awarded the Booker Prize (in the 2000 for the novel “The Blind Assassin”; 4 times she was its finalist), the Arthur Clarke award, and twice – the Governor-General’s Award, the main literary reward in Canada.

For the lyric of Langston Hughes, a combination of diverse genre traditions of black song folklore is typical. His numerous works translated into different languages have great popularity as well.

John Keats was a poet of a junior generation of English romantics. Keats’s greatest works were written when he was 23 years old. In the last year of his life, he almost abandoned his literary activity.

Jalaluddin Rumi is the greatest Sufi poet, who lived in the XIIIth century on the territory of Asia Minor. The grateful contemporaries called him Mevlyana (“Our lord”), considering Rumi their spiritual mentor.

It is not possible to call Emily Dickinson a poet in a habitual, traditional understanding. It is because none of her poems was published within her lifetime.

The single novel of Emily Bronte earned a great fame for its creator. This book was not appreciated immediately because of its stark description and flaming feelings, but afterwards, it was appreciated by critics as well as readers.

Despising the collectivist society contemporary to him, committed to everything individual, Cummings resorted to a special printing drawing of a stanza and unusual punctuation during publication of poems.

Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, who created his works only in English. In addition to his unusual poems, he created short stories and scripts for films and radio. Moreover, the author often performed his creations himself.

Wealth and originality of images, rhythmic innovation in a combination with modest architectonics of a poem, skillful alternation of harmony and a dissonance and naturalness of poetic language are typical for the Rossetti’s poetry.