Writer Virginia Woolf

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Adeline Virginia Woolf was born  25 January 1882 , was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century, and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life and took her own life by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.

LORD BYRON

George Gordon Byron, 6th baron of Byron was born in London in January 22, 1788 and died in Greece from April 19, 1824. It was an English poet, considered one of the most versatile and important Romantic writers. Became involved in revolutions in Italy and Grecia. 

  He made 31 works, all were very famous. It was one of the most important poets of romanticism.

Stephen King

STEPHEN KING

Stephen Edwin KingStephen King was born in Portland (Maine),is an American writer known for his horror novels. He is known worldwide for having been the author of novels such as Carrie, The Shining, It, Animal Cemetery, Misery, The Mystery of Salem's Lot, among many others. King has also written works that do not correspond to the horror genre. He began writing at an early age, drawing on recent films and comic strips.

 These are some of the most famous works of Stephen King:

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare(1564-1616) was a famous poet, playwright and actor. Although he was 52 years old when he died, Shakespeare wrote a variety of poems.

Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a sucessful career in London as actor, writer and partowner of a playing company. Many of this plays were published in edition of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime.

Shakespeare's first plays were written in the conventional style of the day, he wrote them in a stylised language that doesn't always spring naturally from the needs of the characters or the drama. The poetry depends on extended, sonmetimes elaborate metaphors and concert, the language is often rethorical.

Most of his known work was between 1589 and 1613, his early plays were primarily comedies and histories, he then wrote mainly tragedies. In his last phase he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances. Shakespeare's work inspired other writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Albert Brooke, Hector Boece, Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens. The american novelist Herman Melville's monologues are inspired in Shakespeare's, his captain Alhab in Moby-Dick is a classic tragic hero inspired by King Lear. Scholars have identified 20.000 pieces of music liked to Shakespeare's work. Shakespeare has also inspired many pinters including the Romantics and the  Pre-Raphaelite. The Swiss Romantic artist Henry Fuseli even translated Macbeth into German