John Keats (1795-1821)

WORKING ON IT

John Dryden (1631-1700)

WORKING ON IT

Sonnet 155

I dreamt you were here

I thought you were with me

I heard you were alone

Just hearsay

You mayst think is not beauteous

But I'm sure we enjoyed it

Thoughts about you wane

Sometimes my heart thinks you are a niggard

You leave a bequest on him

And the only witness I have

Is the friend of the hot eye of heaven...

You stirr'd my heart

You leave rondure herms

Now the only thing he doth

Is repair what there remains

Edmund Spenser

He was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene.

He was born in East Smithfield, London. Around 1589 he made the acquitance of Sir Walter Raleigh, and it was Raleigh who, after reading the faerie queene, persuaded to visit London in 1590, where he presented Spenser and his poem to the Queen. In June 1594 he married Elizabeth Boyle, an event which he celebrated in the sonnet Amoretti and Epithalamium.

He died in January 1599, he was buried in  Westminster Abbey.

Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)

His real name was Daniel Foe. He was an english trader and is considered one of the founders of the novel.

He wrote Robinson Crusoe in 1719 which is written in 1st person and is like an essay.

Also, he worte Everybody's business is nobody's business in 1725.

Defoe had almost 100 pseudonyms.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

He was born in Dublin. He was an essayiste, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric.

He met a girl and he wrote for her A journal to Stella.

He suffered Meniere's Disease which caused him hearing loss and damage in the inner ear. He was dead in 1745 and he was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.

He wrote his own epitaph in latin and William Butler Yeats translated it.

Swift has sailed

into his rest. Sauvage

indignation there

cannot lacerate

his breast, imitate him

if you dare, world-besotted

traveler. He served

human liberty.

He wrote Modest Proposal in 1729 and this was a way of mock of poor people. Here, he said that economics can be improved by selling children as food.

He also wrote Gulliver's Travels which is divided into 4 parts:

• A voyage to Lilliput.
• A voyage to Borbdingnag.
• A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan.
• A voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms.

Tragedy

The tragedy is based on human suffering.

There are different types of tragedy:

• Renaissance tragedy
• Neo-classical tragedy
• Bourgeois tragedy

It is about mystery, morality and miracles.

One of the most important works of tragedy is George Lillo's The London Merchant.

Queen Elizabeth

The Queen Elizabeth loved entertainment. Shakespeare appreciated Queen Elizabeth and she loved his writings a lot.

She used to receive almost a poem per day.