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R.W.EMERSON: (1803-1882)

Full name - Ralph Waldo Emerson
An American Transcendentalist poet, thinker, orator, philosopher and essayist of the 19th century.
known as "the Sage of Concord."
the central figure of literary and philosophical group - the American Transcendentalism.
founded the literary magazine “The Dial”
Main themes of his poetry - Nature, patriotism, nationalism, personal life and reflective /philosophical.

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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: (1850-1894)

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IRENE THOMPSON:

famous English poetess of 19th century.
She has written many poems especially for children like The Country Child, The Town Child, Rainy Nights, A Penny Wish, Caravans Feet, Secrete Place, Welcome to Spring.

SAROJINI NAIDU: (1879-1949)

Sarojini Naidu is a "dreamer, born in a dreamless age" and "an ardent, versatile and dynamic genius."
Known as the 'Nightingale of India'
She was a political activist, feminist, poet, writer and the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress and to be appointed an Indian state governor.
her poems described Indian flora and fauna, Indian customs and traditions, festivals, men and women, places, legends of kings and queens etc.
in1914, she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
"In the Bazaars of Hyderabad" is a lyric poem published in "The Bird of Time."

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JOHN KEATS: (1795-1821)

One of the greatest English Romantic poets.
most famous for odes.
Negative capability was a phrase first used by Keats in 1817.
His last request was to place the following words on his tomb: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
"The Naughty Boy" is a short lyric poem written for children.

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Endymion (his first work. Dedicated to Thomas Chatterton)
Famous Odes: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche, Ode to Autumn, Ode on Indolence, Ode on Melancholy.
1819 was the most productive years for Keats as he wrote - "The Eve of St. Agnes", "La Belle Dame sans Merci", "Hyperion", and "Lamia"

ALFRED TENNYSON: (1809-1892)

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Timbuctoo (he won the chancellor's gold medal for this poem)
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (first signed work)
Poems (1842) It is the most significant work of Tennyson with the following poems:
» In Memoriam (an elegy on the death of his friend AH Hallam)
» Idylls of the King
» Ulysses
» The Gardener's Daughter etc.
Princess, a Medley (a long poem in blank verse)
Maud (a monodrama)

WILLIAM BLAKE: (1757-1827)

a great English lyric poet of the Romantic period.
a rebel against all the social, political and literary conventions of the 18th century.
He lived in his own world peopled by supernatural beings, phantoms and spectres whom he treated as more real than the realities of the physical world.
He glorified children and nature.

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Poetical Sketches
i) Songs of Innocence
ii) Songs of Experience
These two volumes have his most famous songs: Another's Sorrow, The Tiger, The Lamb, The Evening Star, Love, Summer, Spring etc.

RUSKIN BOND: (1934-)

an Indian author of British descent.
popular as the "Indian William Wordsworth"
He has authored over 500 short stories, essays and novels, more than 50 books for children, and two volumes of autobiography, 'Scenes from a Writer's Life' and 'The Lamp is Lit'.
received the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for the novel 'Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra'
awarded John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1957), the Padma Shri (1999) and the Padma Bhushan in (2014) for his contribution to children literature.

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ROBERT BRIDGES: (1844-1930)

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ROBERT FROST: (1874-1963)

American poet, teacher and lecturer
Known as a poet of nature, poet of New England, poet of new Hampshire, rural poet, modern poet, poet of truth and a poet of new techniques.
depicted realistic New England life through language and situations familiar to the common man.
nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for 31 times

He was awarded four Pulitzer prizes:

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Some of his most famous poems are:

The Pasture, The Road not Taken, Mending Wall, Two Tramps in Mud Time, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, West Running Brook, Home Burial, After Apple Picking, The Onset etc.

JIM CORBETT: (1875-1955)

A hunter, tracker, environmentalist, author and naturalist.
also a colonel in the British Indian Army
He held the honour of killing many man-eating tigers and leopards in India especially near the Garhwal and Kumaon regions.

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