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Oscar Wilde

1854 - 1900

The Irish playwright, novelist, essayist an d poet, Oscar Wilde, is considered a spokesman for the late 19th century Aesthetic movement in England. His best known work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, reflects the Aesthetic rallying call: art for art’s sake. Many of his works are designed around the exposure of a secret sin on curiosity and consequent disgrace and decadence.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

1872 - 1906

Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist and playwright whose reputation was based on his verses and short stories written in black dialect. He is known as the first African American writer who tried to live off of his writings. Dunbar was also one of the first black authors to gain national fame and international reputation in the United States.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 - 1822

Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose wife Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, was one of the major English Romantic poets. He was not famous during his lifetime because of his radical views on poetry, but also because of his fight for social justice. His thoughts about economics and morality and his writings on non violent resistence influenced 20th century thinkers such as Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma ...  [+]

Richard Calmit Adams

1864 - 1921

Richard Calmit Adams was a Lenape poet, writer, attorney, entrepreneur, and cultural historian of the Delaware Tribe of Indians. He published several books featuring poems about his people’s legends and their political rights, and about Delaware culture and history.

Robert Browning

1812 - 1889

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright who notably mastered the dramatic monologue, making him one of the foremost Victorian poets. He is remembered as a wise and philosophical poet whose works contributed to the political and social discourse of the Victorian Age. His poems are marked by irony, dark humor, social commentary and historical settings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 - 1894

Robert Louis Stevenson is a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer who created the children’s novel Treasure Island, and of the horror story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His whole work is based on a key theme is the impossibility of identifying and separating good from evil. His writing relies on visual effects, and on numerous narrators and points of views.

Rudyard Kipling

1865 - 1936

The English journalist, short story writer, poet and novelist, Rudyard Kipling, is usually remembered as the advocate of British imperialism through his short stories and poems about Britsh soldiers in India. He also wrote several tales for kids including The Jungle Book. By winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, he became the first author, writing in English, to ever receive it.