The 19th century saw rapid development and changes in the relationships between different artistic fields. Literature from the United Kingdom played a leading role, represented by prominent writers such as George Byron, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Thackeray, and George Bernard Shaw. Specifically, George Byron was an English poet who symbolized romanticism and liberalism in Europe. Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, playwright and essayist who received a classical education but followed his own path. Charles Dickens was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era.
2. XIX century - a time of rapid
development of all spheres of
artistic culture, with their relationship
and role have undergone significant
changes. This period was very
bright and at the same time
important.
Literature of the United Kingdom of
the XIX century occupies a leading
place in world literature. Prose of
English literature of that time is
represented by the names of
George Byron, Oscar Wilde,
Charles Dickens, Walter Scott,
William Thackeray, Bernard Shaw
and other prominent writers and
playwrights.
3. George Gordon Byron is an
English poet who became
a symbol of romanticism
and political liberalism in
Europe in the 19th
century. Participant in the
Greek Revolution. George
was born in London in an
old, but in impoverished
aristocratic family. After
the death of his
grandfather Byron became
a lord, and inherited his
family estate - Newstead
Abbey, where he settled.
In 1801, Byron entered
Harrow, a school for
children from wealthy and
noble families.
4. Oscar Wilde is an English
poet, playwright, writer,
and essayist of Irish origin.
Born in the family of
William Wilde, doctor and
writer Jane Francisco Eljee.
He received a classical
education: aesthetic looks
were formed at Trinity
College (Dublin) and the
Oxford College of St.
Magdaleny - but went on
his own way, guided by his
own thesis: "The things
that really need to be
understood will not be
interpreted by anyone."
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7. Charles John
Huff Dickens
is an English
writer, one of
the most
popular
novelists of the
Victorian era, a
well-known
political
agitator.
Charles
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10. Walter Scott is an English
and Scottish poet, writer,
biographer and novelist.
Most worked in the
genre of the historical
novel. In his works he
was able to create
extremely realistic
images of historical
reality. Born in Edinburgh
in the family of lawyer
Walter Scott, his mother,
Anna Rutherford, was
the daughter of a
professor of medicine at
Edinburgh University.
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12. William Mackpys
Tackeray is an English
satirist writer. He was
the son of an officer of
the colonial forces of
the British Empire and
belonged to the
privileged sections of
English society. After
graduating from
Charthouse, he
enrolled at Cambridge
University, but did not
receive a degree,
because the civil
servant career did not
attract him. He wanted
to do only art, so he
went to France.
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14. George Bernard Shaw -
an English playwright
and publicist of Irish
descent, born in Dublin,
a Nobel Prize winner in
literature for 1925, died
in Ayote Saint
Lawrence, England.