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W.H. Auden
Went to Oxford
Poet famous from 1930s-1970s
Married (for reasons of citizenship) but homosexual and wrote some famous love poems
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Rupert Brooke
A poet famous prior to WW1
Died in 1915 in service in Greece
Famous for a relatively small selection of sonnets about the war
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772-1834
Romantic poet
Wrote poetry about nature and myths and legends (typical Romantic themes)
Was once disturbed by a knock on the door and never finished his most famous poem!
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Frances Cornford
Charles Darwin’s granddaughter
Won the Queen’s medal for poetry in 1959, died in 1960
Wrote about childhood, about life, about Rupert Brooke…
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Kenneth Grahame
Scottish writer
Wrote the Wind in the Willows
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T S Eliot
American modernist poet (died in 1965)
Won the Noble Prize for literature in 1948
His poetry was about gender roles, the human psyche, literary history
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Robert Graves
Served in WW1, but lived until 1985
Taught at Oxford, as well as writing numerous novels, poems and essays
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Thomas Hardy
Lived from 1840-1925
One of the most famous British novelists and poets
Was quite controversial due to the ‘salacious’ themes in his novels
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A E Housman
A poet of the British countryside
Traditional style, odes and ballads about landscapes
Was taught at Oxford, taught at Cambridge
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Franz Kafka
Czech writer (born in Prague)
Created surreal, nightmarish worlds for his characters
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Rudyard Kipling
Born in India so often wrote about imperialism (Jungle Book)
His son died in WW1 after Kipling had fought on his behalf to get him into the army
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Philip Larkin
Northerner, Cambridge educated
Formal style and structure as a poet, but modern and shocking themes in his poems
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John Milton
1608-1674 - perhaps the most famous 17th Century writer
Wrote ‘Paradise Lost’, about the battle between Heaven and Hell
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Friedrich Nietzche
19th Century German philosopher
Questioned traditional morality and influenced existentialism
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George Orwell
Wrote Animal Farm and 1984 (Big Brother)
Was very concerned about the correct use of the English language
The ideals of socialism influenced his life
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Wilfred Owen
Became a famous poet during and after WW1
Was very critical of the war, but served for 3 years as an officer and returned twice
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Blaise Pascal
French 17th Century scientist and philosopher
Wrote: “The heart has its reasons that reason knoweth not”
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Plato 429-347 BC
Student of Socrates, perhaps the most famous Greek philosopher Proponent of the ‘dialectic’ teaching strategy – discussion, rhetoric
Homosexual
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Marcel Proust
French author
Semi-autobiographical novel (The Remembrance of Things Past) his most famous work
Scarred by his childhood
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J D Salinger
1919-2010
Most famous work is ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, about a runaway boy who goes to New York
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Siegfried Sassoon
Soldier in WW1 (nicknamed ‘Mad Jack’)
Suffered from shell shock and reflected on the war in later life (died in 1967)
Wrote a poem called ‘Suicide in the Trenches’
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William Shakespeare
Renaissance playwright
Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost & Antony and Cleopatra all quoted in ‘The History Boys’
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Oscar Wilde
Anglo-Irish playwright
Arrested and charged with ‘gross indecency’ for his homosexual acts
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Virginia Woolf
British novelist and essayist (1882-1941)
A modernist writer who used a ‘stream of consciousness’ narrative style
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Walt Whitman
American poet (1819-1892)
Was very controversial in his time, with some of his work described as ‘obscene’
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian-British philosopher
Considered complex issues such as the human psyche and logic
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Stevie Smith British poet, considered a unique voice due to her satirical style
Poetry was about themes such as death and alienation, but often used a humorous tone