Alfred Lord Tennyson’s father was called George Clayton Tennyson; he was born in 1778 and passed away in 1831. Tennyson’s mother was called Elizabeth Fytche; she was born in 1781 and passed away in 1865. Alfred Lord Tennyson was a student at Louth grammar school for four years from 1816 till 1820, he then went on to study at Scaitcliffe school, Tennyson then went on to study at Trinity college in Cambridge 1827. The poem
After graduating with a Masters in Fine Arts O’Connor spent the next several years living and writing in New York State until she was diagnosed with Lupus, the disease that had killed her father. At that point she moved with her mother to their family farm Andalusia where she would spend the last 13 years of her life writing and raising exotic birds. It was here that Flannery would be inspired to write her longest short story “The Displaced Person” A story which, like much of her work, borrowed heavily from her own life. “The Displaced Person” was a critical commentary on the times in which she lived and she fearlessly confronted controversial issues like racism and emigration. The inspiration for “The Displaced Person” came from an emigrant family that moved to her mother’s farm Andalusia in 1953.
He graduated from school early, and entered Harvard in 1912, after a year spent traveling to Europe, but now as a young adult. After his mother died in 1915, and with the war starting to rise up, John served as an ambulance driver in France. One mans initiation. His first (published) novel was about his wartime experiences. One man’s initiation was based largely on his own experiences during the First World War.
On this is based all his war poetry. In August 1918, after his friend, the other Great War poet, Siegfried Sassoon had been severely injured and sent back to England, Owen returned to France war was still as horrid as before. The butchery war ended on November 11th, 1918 at 11 o clock. Seven days before, Owen had been killed in one of the last vain battles of this war. The situation of Dulce et Decorum est s a tragic situation.
Ucha1 Hugo Ucha World Literature Jane E. Robson May 3rd, 2012 Final Paper Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires on 24 August 1899. Influenced by his English grandmother, who was British, he becomes literate in both English and Spanish. He spent his formative years in Geneva, after his family was trapped there due to World War I. When the war was over and after spent a few months in Spain, he returned to Buenos Aires and worked as a librarian. In 1923 he published his first poetry book, “Fervor de Buenos Aires” by the time he was promoted to the director of the Argentinean National Library.
When she was eighteen Sophia was introduced to Leo Tolstoy, who began to visit the family often. Although it was thought that he favored her elder sister, Lisa, Leo proposed to Sophia on September 17, 1862. The couple was married a mere week later, in Moscow, and immediately retreated to the Tolstoy family estate, Yasnaya Polyana. Sophia had been keeping a diary from the time she was eleven but had it destroyed just before the wedding. On the other hand, in an act similar to a character created in his work Anna Karenina, Leo asked his new bride to read his personal diaries.
Throughout the course of his life, he influenced many people and had a hand in furthering many fields of science. Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 in the town of Shrewsbury, England. By 1825, he was taking his first medical classes at the University of Edinburgh. Then in 1827, he enrolled in Cambridge, he graduated in 1831, without honors, and then planned to stay for a two-year residency, but he decided to take a journey on the HMS Beagle that set off on 27th of December. From February 1832 to May 1834, the Beagle spent its time on the east coast of South America and the surrounding islands.
During that time Monet met a young woman, Camille Doncieux. Later on, they had a son, Jean, in 1867. After a short period of time Monet started having many financial problems, which led him to attempt suicide. Luckily, he had Camille to help him recover and they got married in 1870. Monet and Camille decided to leave France to go to England because of the Franco-Prussian War.
“Richard Cory” was part of a series of poems written by Edwin Arlington Robinson published in 1897 as a second manuscript in “The Children of the Night.” Arlington Robinson was born in Head Tide Maine he was the third son of Edwin Robinson, a timber merchant and civic leader. Shortly after his birth the family moved to nearby Gardiner, where he grew up; the town later provided the model of a series of poems that he wrote throughout his career. Arlington Robinson attended Harvard from 1891 to 1893 he was forced to leave Harvard because of the family’s financial difficulties and his mother’s failing health. During this time Arlington Robinson wrote the poems “The Torrent and the Night Before” and “The Children of the Night.” His hometown of Gardiner, renamed Tilbury Town, also appears for the first time in these poems. As Arlington Robinson saw it, the town's Puritan ethic, portrayed as repressive and critical, combined with the materialistic aspects of society, conspires to beat down its citizens.
Le Clézio was born in the Riviera city of Nice to a French Mauritian doctor and a French Mauritian mother. His ancestors emigrated from Brittany to the île Maurice—today's Mauritius—in the 18th century. During World War II, the family was separated, his father being unable to join his wife and children in Nice. Le Clézio moved with his family at age 8 to Nigeria where his father served as a surgeon in the British army. After studying at Bristol University from 1958 to 1959, he finished his undergraduate degree at Nice's Institut d’etudes Litteraires.