William Blake

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Born 1757 and died in 1827, Blake was an English musician and poet. He was not popular during his own time. He is considered as a Whole Artist, due to his drawings in his works.

He studied in The Royal Academy where he discovered that artists were generalizing styles, he wanted something different and he shows that in his own works.

He married Catherine who was taught to read and write and draw. She was a very important help for Blake for printing and finishing works.

He was very interested into the social problems and politics, he hated discrimination and imposed authority, some legal troubles were risen from his believes.

Some of his paintings have religious topics.

[some] Illustrated books:

*John Milton: Paradise Lost (Blake's Illustrations)

All Religions are One - 1788
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - 1790 - 93

Others:
The French Revolution - 1791
Tiriel - 1789

Charles Dickens

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Dickens lived from 1812 to 1870. He is one of the most important writers of his era even he was recognized until the XXth century. He is took the element of the XVIIIth century Gothic romance novels.

For his writings, he worked closely with those who illustrated them, so the characters were exactly as how he envisioned. He also presented some autobiographical stuff into his writings.

His writings were presented as episodes in journals, for example, in Oliver Twist the public had to wait 2 months to know if he survived a gunshot. He altered the stories according to people's reactions.

Works

The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)
David Copperfield (Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850)

The Christmas books:

• A Christmas Carol (1843)
• The Chimes (1844)
• The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
• The Battle of Life (1846)
• The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)

John Keats. Ode to a Nightingale part VII

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JOHN KEATS

ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE

VII

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!    

No hungry generations tread thee down;  

The voice I hear this passing night was heard   

In ancient days by emperor and clown: 

Perhaps the self-same song that found a path 

Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,  

She stood in tears amid the alien corn;        

The same that ofttimes hath   

Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam  

Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

John Dryden

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Born 1631, Dryden life was full of important situations, he wrote poems and plays. His living age is named The Dryden period due to his writings. He was part of King's Company in which later he became a shareholder. he was also a translator of the classical literature (Horace, Ovid, Lucretius, Theocritus...)  . He lived during the English Restoration and The War of the 3 Kingdoms.


He lived during the puritan ban and the great plague, because of this he couldn't present his plays for a while.

Later he would wrote a very important satire of religion and power. The 3 part poem: The Hind and the Panther.

Each of its 3 parts has an important notation.

The first one shows different religions as animals according to their power and procedures.

The second is a satire to christian practices.

Finally, the third one is about the Whigs and how churches and monarchy could beat them.

"Of all the tyrannies on humane kind

The worst is that which persecutes the mind."

—John Dryden,

"The Hind and the Panther"

Sonnet "155"

With some class vocabulary on Shakespeare's sonnets I must wrote my own.