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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet, novelist, playwright, courtier, and natural philosopher, one of the greatest figures in Western literature. Throughout his life Goethe was interested in a va... |
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William Blake, Poet and Painter
William Blake was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination ov... |
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Robert Burns, Scotland's Greatest Poet
Robert Burns, Scotland's greatest poet, was born on 25th January 1759 in a two roomed thatched cottage at Alloway, near Ayr, where his father, William Burnes, ran a small... |
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Feminist
Wollstonecraft's lasting place in the history of philosophy rests upon A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). In this classical feminist text, she appealed to egali... |
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Friedrich von Schiller, German Writer
Johann Christoph Friedrich (later: von) Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last several years of his life (1788–1805), Schille... |
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William Wordsworth, Poet
William Wordsworth, British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballads(1798) in collaboration with Samuel Taylo... |
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Sir Walter Scott, Scottish Writer & Poet
Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer and poet and one of the greatest historical novelists. Ivanhoe (1819) set in the reign of Richard I is perhaps the best known of Scott's... |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads,(1798) written with William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movemen... |
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Jane Austen, English Novelist
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works include Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion and Emma. Her biting social commentary and masterful use of... |
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Bahadur Shah II, Last Mughal Emperor
Bahadur Shah II, also known as Zafar (his name as an Urdu poet), last Mughal emperor of India (1837–57). A political figurehead, he was completely controlled by the Briti... |
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E. T. A. Hoffmann, Composer & Writer
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman a... |
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William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often esteemed the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnso... |
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Carl von Clausewitz, Military Historian
Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz was a Prussian soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated... |
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Irving, Writer of Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving, American author Washington Irving is best known for his short stories which include "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Also a historia... |
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Lord Byron, Poet
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was among the most famous of the English 'Romantic' poets; his contemporaries included Percy Shelley and John Keats. He was al... |
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