English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads .
Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times
Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist
English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his poems had been published for only four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received, but his fame grew rapidly after his death
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher
American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (, also US: ; Russian: , tr. Ivn Aleksndrovich Goncharv, IPA: [van lksandrvd ntrof]; 18 June [O.S. 6 June] 1812 27 September [O.S. 15 September] 1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869, also translated as Malinovka Heights). He …
American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school
African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
British writer and physician
Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields
