Samuel Johnson Biography Life and Literature Life and Literature of Samuel Johnson[Samuel Johnson Biography] Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709. He was the son of a book-seller, with little means. He was educated first at a Lichfield Grammar School and thereafter went to Pembroke College, Oxford, where he spent a little more … Read more
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biography His Life and Literature His Life and Literature[Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biography] Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a pioneer in nineteenth century Romantic English poetry, was born at Ottery, St. Mary in 1772. He was the youngest child of his father Reverend John Coleridge, Vicar and school-master of St. Mary of Devonshire. Coleridge was … Read more
Robert Burns Biography His Life and Poetry His Life and Poetry[Robert Burns Biography] Robert Burns was born at Alloway in Ayrshire in 1759 in a poor labour family that had some pretension of culture. He was one of the seven children of the family that used to work in a farm. Burns had his early … Read more
Robert Browning Biography His Life and Literature His Life and Literature[Robert Browning Biography] Browning’s age was eventful, but his life had hardly any memorable event to remember. His busy intellectual curiosity and vivid interest in men were found strangely allied to a singular aloofness from the movements and momentous issues of his time. He was … Read more
Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography His Life and Literature His Life and Literature[Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography] Percy Bysshe Shelley, the son of a baronet, was born at Field Place, Warnham in Sussex, on August 4, 1792. He was educated at Eton. Afterwards he went to Oxford. He was rusticated from Oxford for publishing, at the … Read more
Lord Byron Biography His Life and Poetical Works His Life and Poetical Works[Lord Byron Biography ] Lord Byron, a great literary figure of his age, was born in London on January 22, 1788. He belonged to a highly aristocratic family, of course with the notoriety for a wild, reckless and adventurous living. His father was … Read more
