William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Shakespeare also spelled Shakspere, byname Bard of Avon or Swan of Avon,  (baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon), English poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet and considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time.Shakespeare was educated at the King's New School, a free chartered grammar school that was located in Stratford. There he studied the basic Latin text and grammar, much of which was standardized across the country by Royal decree. He was also known to partake in the theatre while at the school as was the custom at the time. As a commoner, Shakespeare's education was thought to finish at the grammar school level as there is no record of him attending university, which was a luxury reserved for upper-class families.

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William Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays that scholars know of, with most of them labeled is comedies, histories, or tragedies. The earliest play that is directly attributed to Shakespeare is the trilogy of "King Henry VI," with Richard III also being written around the same time, between 1589 and 1591. The last play was a collaboration, assumed to be with John Fletcher, known as "The Two Noble Kinsmen." There are two volumes of poetry and over 150 sonnets that are attributed to Shakespeare.                

Oscar Wilde

     (1854–1900)

Author, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England. After graduating from Oxford University, he lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism. In 1891, he published The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel which was panned as immoral by Victorian critics, but is now considered one of his most notable works. Unconventional in his writing and life, Wilde’s affair with a young man led to his arrest on charges of "gross indecency" in 1895. He was imprisoned for two years and died in poverty three years after his release at the age of 46. 

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Beginning in 1888, while he was still serving as editor

 of Lady's World, Wilde entered a seven-year period of

 furious creativity.  In 1888, seven years after he wrote Poems, Wilde

 published The Happy Prince and Other Tales, a collection of children's stories. As a dramatist, many of Wilde’s plays were well received including his satirical comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), his most famous play.

                                       In 1891, he published Intentions, an essay                                                            collection arguing the tenets of aestheticism, and                                               that same year, he published his first and only                                                     novel, ThePicture of Dorian Gray. The novel is a                                               cautionary tale about a beautiful young man,                                                      Dorian Gray.                                             

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Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland), American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature.

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'' I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.''

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Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de sainte exupery, simply known as de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight.

             Şehitkamil Belediyesi Anadolu Lisesi

   (1788-1824)

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) known simply as Lord Byron, was an English peer, who was a poet and politician. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement and is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. He remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.

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Born : George Gordon Byron 22 January 1788 London, England

Died : 19 April 1824 (aged 36) Missolonghi, Aetolia, Ottoman Empire (present-day Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece)

Education : Aberdeen Grammar School, Harrow School (1801 -1805)

Occupation : Poet, politician

Lord Byron in albanian dress

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Dhurata PASHAJ, teacher at: "Deshmoret e Prishtines" school * Albania

British poet, Lord George Gordon Byron 

(1788-1824), 

set out on a grand tour of the Mediterranean in 1809, in the course of which he visited Spain, Malta, Albania Greece and Asia Minor. His visit to Albania in the autumn of that year made a lasting impression on him and is reflected in the second canto of the poem: "Childe Harold's Pelgrimage", that catapulted him to fame as a writter in 1812. 

The first letter here, written to his mother from Albania, betrays much of the excitement he felt on his first journey to the "Orient" and, in particular, at his meeting with the formidable tyrant Ali Pasha of Tepelena (1744 - 1822), the so-called Lion of Janina.

The second letter, written to John Cam Hobhouse (1786 - 1869), describes his encounter with Veli Pasha, son of Ali Pasha.

... The Albanians in their dresses (the most magnificient in the world, consisting of a long white kilt, gold worked cloak, crimson velvet gold laced jacket and waistcoat, silver mounted pistols and daggers), the Tartars with their high caps, the Turks in their vast pelisses and turbans, the soldiers and black slaves with the horses, the former stretched in groupes in an immense open gallery in front of the palace, the latter placed in a kind of cloister below it, two hundred steeds ready caparisoned to move in a moment, couriers entering or passing out with dispatches, the kettle drums beating, boys calling the hour from the minaret of the mosque, altogether, with the singular appearance of the building itself, formed a new and delightful spectacle to a stranger.

MAYA ANGELOU

Maya Angelou, a poet and activist, was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1928. Through her life, she demonstrated the following qualities:

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O. Henry, pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, original name William Sidney Porter, (born September 11, 1862, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.—died June 5, 1910, New York, New York), American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humour, grim or ironic, and often had surprise endings, a device that became identified with his name and cost him critical favour when its vogue had passed.

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Born: September 11, 1862, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

Died: June 5, 1910, New York, New York, United States

Education: He then went to Linsey Street High School in Greensboro, but he left school at the age of 15.

Occupation: Writer

RUDYAR KIPLING

Born:  30 December 1865

Bombay Presidence,

British Italy

Died:   18 January 1936

London, England

Occupation:   Short-story

writer, novelist, poet,

journalist                                                                  

                                                                                    Şengül Aydın

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Notable works: The Jungle Book

                               Just So Stories

                               Kim

                              Captain Courageous

                              The White Man's Burden               

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Shirley Jackson 

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Born:December 14,1916

Died:August 8,1965

Genre:Horror,mystery,gothic

She's best known for Lottery,which suggests a deeply unsettling dark underside in human nature who lives in suburban small town in America.This is easily the best adaption of the famed Shirley Jackson short story,first published in The New Yorker,Jackson may even have taken pleasure in the destructive impact of her work,as evidenced by Hayman's statement  that she was always proud that  the Union  of South Africa banned"Lottery"

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