Famous writers and poets of Great Britain

1812-1870
OSCAR WILDE
1855-1946
RUDYARD KIPLING

1865-1936

AGATHA CHRISTLE
1890-1976

was born in 1759.
Burns was born into a poor family.

At the age of six Robert Burns went to school, because his father wanted him to be an educated boy. Robert Burns read a lot. He was fond of reading. His favourite writer was Shakespeare. At the age of 15 he began to write poems. Robert Burns published his book “Poems” when he was 27 years old.
Robert Burns wrote the words of the song “Auld Lang Syne” He died in poverty at the age of thirty-seven in 1796.

in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
Chasing the wild deer and

following the roe.
My heart’s in the Highlands
Wherever I go. Farewel to the Highlands,
Farewell to the North
The birth-place of valbour,
The country of Worth;
Wherever I wander,
Wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands forever I love

MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS

по скалам.
Гоню я оленя, пугаю козу.
В горах мое сердце, а

сам я внизу.

Прощай моя родина! Север прощай,-
Отечество славы и доблести край.
По белому свету гоним,
Навеки останусь я сыном твоим!

В горах мое сердце…

are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes

the poem Jabberwocky, and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world[4] dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.

with one of its greatest champions of reform.
Dickens used his

novels to identify and ad­dress many problems of the nineteenth century, such as child abuse, unfair labour practices, unjustices in the legal system, and weaknesses in education, Dickens had experienced many of these problems in his own childhood, and so ! he dedicated his life to bringing about social reform. Some of his most popular j novels include, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.

distinction of being the world’s best-selling writer, and “The Mousetrap”,

one of her 19 plays, has run longer than any other production in the history of the British theatre.
Agatha Christie was born in Torque, a fashionable coastal resort in southwest England, in September 1890. Her father, Frederic Miller, was an American keen on amateur theatricals.
Despite her mother’s view that no child should be allowed to read until the age of eight , so as not to damage eyes or brain, Agatha managed to find books to read, including Jules Verne’s science fiction. She liked devising word and number puzzles. Her formal schooling did not start until she was 13/ and two years later she went to France to study history, art , and dancing
By the 1970s she was regarded as the queen of mystery writers. She died in 1976 at the age of 85

stories about a man who was a detective. Readers liked

his stories because they were very interesting and the doctor decided to become a writer. The doctor was Conan Doyle and he wrote about Sherlock Holmes.
Conan Doyle wrote his first story about Sherlock Holmes in 1887. In this story the detective meets his friend Dr. Watson. Holmes and Watson lived at 221 В Baker Street in London.
Many discussions take place about where 221 В was. There is no house there now. But a large company has its office near the place. This company answers twenty or so letters which still come every week to Sherlock Holmes, 221В Baker Street.
Most come from the United States and many people ask if Mr. Holmes can help them with some problem.
The company answers saying that, «Mr. Sherlock Holmes is no longer working as a detective».

he received an excellent classical education. At the age of

eighteen he married Anne Hathaway, and they had three children. Shakespeare was playwright and poet. As he rose in popularity, he wrote plays for the famous Globe Theatre, a round, open-roofed building that housed approximately 2,000 spectators. Lat­er Shakespeare became one of the owners of the Globe Theatre.
Unlike many writers who never live to enjoy their fame, Shakespeare achieved great recog­nition during his lifetime.

He wrote three types of plays: comedies, tragedies and histories. He also wrote narrative poems, sonnets and lyric poetry. He is acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of all time, and has remained popular with readers around the world.

more red than her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires,

black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks:
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

губ;
Темнее снега кожи смуглый цвет;
Как проволока, черный волос губ;

Узорных роз

в садах не перечесть,
Но их не видно на щеках у ней,
И в мире много ароматов есть
Ее дыханья слаще и сильней;

В ее речах отраду нахожу,
Хоть музыка приятнее на слух;
Как шествуют богини, не скажу,
Но ходит по земле, как все, мой друг.
И я клянусь- она не хуже все ж,
Чем те, кого в сравненьях славит ложь.

to jam his living from the age of fifteen and

he educated himself with the help offriends.
O'Henry knew people very well, especially the ordinary people of New York. In his stories you can feel satirical criticism of the American way of life. Most of his short stories are full of warm sympathy for ordinary American people.
O'Henry was the penname used by author William Sydney Porter. Porter was a great admirer of another American writer, Edgar Allan Рое, and he was influenced by Poe's style.

O'Henry wrote many popular stories and earned a reputation as the master of surprise endings. He was especially talented at developing his characters, and at portraying city life accurately. He wrote over 600 stories.

most widely read American poets of the 19th century. From

1835 to 1854 he was Smith Professor of Mod­ern Languages at Harvard. In 1884, 2 years after his death, he became the I first American to be honoured with a bust in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, London. He is best remembered for poems such as "The Song of Hia­watha" and "Paul Revere's Ride."

1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include

The Forsyte Saga (1906—1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.

married Constance Lloyd, a pretty twenty-four-years-old woman from a middleclass

Dublin family that was not overly pleased by her rather unorthodox selection of a husband. Their first child, Cyril, was born the following year on 5 June, and a second son, Vivian, joined the family on 3 November 1885. In May 1888 ‘’The Happy Prince and Other Tales’’ was published in London; it was illustrated in the style of ancient Greek art, which delighted Wilde. The book consisted of five tales: ’’The Happy Prince’’ ’’The Selfish Giant’’, ‘’The Devoted Friend’’, ‘’The Nightingale and the Rose’’, and “The Remarkable Rocket”. These became part of the traditional folk tales: the triumph of good over evil, the creation of a fantasy world, and the use of the supernatural.

was Washington Irv­ing. He was born to a wealthy New

York family and received an excellent edu­cation. He began his writing career by creating satires about New York society, j He later wrote about the Dutch influences upon the city in its early days. He j attempted to give America a sense of a romantic past like that found in Europe, I and he recorded some of the important developments in the exploration of the J western regions of the country. His most popular work by far was The Sketch Book, which contains two of his most beloved stories, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."

born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer,

who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even referred to by some as one of the founders of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism.

– 14 January 1898), better known by the pen name

Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.

1956) was an English author, best known for his books

about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.

1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor,

best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer.

He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.

was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson

was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway etc…
Novels
Treasure Island (1883) His first major success, a tale of piracy, buried treasure, and adventure, has been filmed frequently. He originally entitled it The Sea Cook but an editor changed it.
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1883) An historical adventure novel and romance set during the Wars of the Roses.
Prince Otto (1885) Stevenson’s third full-length narrative, an action romance set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald.

British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's

best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.

poet. He is most widely known for his works for

children, especially the "Jungle Book." I Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865 but attended school in England. After completing his education, he returned to India where he worked as a newspaper reporter for several years. Many of Kipling's stories and novels reflect his experiences in India and convey the importance of duty and unself­ishness. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.

when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on

you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal n lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise

winnings
And risk t on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and

start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ’Hold on!’

master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your

aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a tap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build up with worn-out tools:

walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
If neither

foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds