William Wordsworth

Poet (17701850)

Born in England in April 7, 1770, poet William

Wordsworth worked with Samuel Taylor
Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads (1798). The
collection, which contained Wordsworth's
"Tintern Abbey," introduced Romanticism to
English poetry. Wordsworth also showed his
affinity for nature with the famous poem "I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." He became
England's poet laureate in 1843, a role he

held until his death in April 23, 1850 at the

age of 80.

DESIDERIA
by: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

SURPRISED by joy -impatient as the Wind

I turned to share the
transport -- O! with whom
But Thee, deep buried in the
silent tomb,
That spot which no
vicissitude can find?
Love, faithful love, recall'd
thee to my mind-But how could I forget thee?
Through what power,
Even for the least division of
an hour,

Have I been so beguiled as to

be blind
To my most grievous loss? -That thought's return
Was the worst pang that
sorrow ever bore,
Save one, one only, when I
stood forlorn,
Knowing my heart's best
treasure was no more;
That neither present time,
nor years unborn
Could to my sight that
heavenly face restore
WALLACE STEVENS

Wallace
Stevens (October 2, 1879 August 2, 1955) was an
American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading,
Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law
School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive
for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won
the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.
Some of his best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar,"
"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock," "The Emperor of Ice-Cream,"
"The Idea of Order at Key West," "Sunday Morning," "The Snow
Man," and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

The Snow Man

Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,

And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the
nothing that is.
T.S. ELIOT
Writer (18

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St. Louis,
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Love
Song
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881965)

StearnsT.S. Eliot was born in

Missouri, in September
1888. He published his
poetic masterpiece, "The
of J. Alfred Prufrock," in
In 1921, he wrote the

poem "The
Waste Land"
while recovering
from exhaustion. The
dense, allusion-heavy poem
went on to redefine the genre and
become one of the most talked about
poems in literary history. For his lifetime
of poetic innovation, Eliot won the Order
of Merit and the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Part of the
ex-pat
community of the 1920s, he spent most of his life in Europe,
dying in London, England, in 1965.

MORNING AT THE WINDOW

by: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

They are rattling breakfast plates in

basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the
street
I am aware of the damp souls of
housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the
street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy
skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the
roofs.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was a celebrated playwright, poet and actor. He was born in the city of
Stratford-upon-Avon in England, in the year 1564. In 1582, when Shakespeare was just 18
years old, he got married to Anne Hathaway, who was eight years older than him. After
that, there are no definite records of the next few years of his life. Historians often refer to
these years of Shakespeares life as the lost years.
William began his career as a playwright in London in 1592. Soon he himself started acting
and also became part-owner of a playwright company known as the Lord Chamberlains

Men. King James I renamed it as The Kings Men. Many of Shakespeares plays were
performed at the Globe Theatre.
Many of his plays were written in the latter half of his career. Shakespeare then underwent a
series of ups and downs owing to the outbreak of the bubonic plague due to which the
theatres had to be shut down. The Globe Theatre caught fire too. However, it was rebuilt
again.
William retired and settled in Stratford, where he died in 1616.

William Shakespeare Plays

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays in his lifetime. Some of his most famous works are Hamlet,
King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar.
To this day, Hamlet is probably his most quoted and reproduced tragedy. It is also
Shakespeares longest play.
Shakespeare is credited with introducing almost 3,000 words to the English language.

Under the Greenwood Tree

Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
Who doth ambition shun,
And loves to live i' the sun,
Seeking the food he eats,
And pleas'd with what he gets,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.