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English poet, playwright and actor, William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist. Often called the English national poet, his other sobriquets are the Bard of Avon, Swan…

Satirist and humorist of the mid- 19th century, William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India on July 18, 1811 where his father was in service to the East India Company. His reputation rests chiefly on the picaresque The Luck of Barry…

American author and poet, Frederick William Thomas was born October 26, 1806 in Providence, Rhode Island. He spent his early years in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended law school in Baltimore, Maryland where in 1828 he was admitted to the bar.…

Romantic poet, William Wordsworth is one of the giants of English poetry and criticism. He was born on April 7, 1770 in the Lake District of northern England. Together with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he produced Lyrical Ballads, an important…