Tag: University of Cambridge

Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

(1803–1873) Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC Works: • A Strange Story (English) • Athens: Its Rise and Fall (English) • Devereux (English) • Ernest Maltravers (English) • Eugene Aram (English) • Falkland (English) • Godolphin (English)…

John Milton

(1608–1674) Works: • Areopagitica (English) • An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton (English) • L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas (English) • Le Paradis Perdu (French) • Milton’s Comus (English) • Minor Poems (English) •…

John Dryden

(1631–1700) Works: • All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy (English) • Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry (English) • Dryden’s Palamon and Arcite (English) • His Majesties Declaration Defended (English) • The Aeneid, Translated by…

William Wordsworth

(1770–1850) Works: • Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems,1798 (English) • Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1 (English) • Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 2 (English) • Poems, Volume 1 (English) • Poems, Volume 2 (English)…

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

(1809–1892) Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS Works: • Beauties of Tennyson (English) • Becket and other plays (English) • Elaine (French) • Énide (French) • Enoch Arden, &c. (English) • Genièvre (French) • Idylls of the King (English) •…

Iain Softley

(1956) Iain Declan Softley Filmography as Director: The Wings of the Dove 1997 Director: Iain Softley Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache   Born October 28 1956 Chiswick, London (England) Occupation Film director Producer Occupation Screenwriter Writer

Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban

(1561–1626) Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban also known as Lord Verulam Works: • Bacon’s Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients (English) • Filosofiset mietelmät (Finnish) • Novum Organum (English) • Of Gardens (English) • The Advancement of Learning…

Christopher Marlowe

(1564–1593) Works: • Accurs’d be he that first invented war! (English) • Edward the Second (English) • Hero and Leander and Other Poems (English) • Hero and Leander and Other Poems (Latin) • I Must Have Wanton Poets (English) •…

William Makepeace Thackeray

(1811–1863) The artist’s works: Self-Portrait c.1844 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters 1864 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Lady Writing s.d. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Works: • A Little Dinner at Timmins’s (English) • Ballads (English) • Barry…

Karel Reisz

(1926–2002) Filmography as Director: Isadora 1968 Director: Karel Reisz Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser   Born July 21 1926 Ostrava (Czech Republic) Died November 25 2002 Camden, London (England) Occupation Film director Award BAFTA