Презентация к уроку английского языка English Writers and Poets
English Writers and Poets A lesson By Olga Tasenyuk Kurchatov School Moscow Charles Dickens(1786–1851) He was a sympathiser
to the poor, the
suffering, and the
oppressed; and by his
death, one of
England's greatest
writers is lost to the
world." William "Snob" Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1868) His funeral drew around 2,000 mourners, including Charles Dickens. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 –1892) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
was Poet Laureate of
the United Kingdom
during much of Queen
Victoria's reign and
remains one of the
most popular poets in
the English language. He was buried at Westminster Abbey. A memorial was erected in All Saints' Church, Freshwater. His last words were; "Oh that press will have me now!" Charlotte Brontл (1816 – 1854) Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet(1771 – 1832) The city government of Edinburgh invited Scott, at the King's behest, to stage-manage the King's entry into Edinburgh.
Prince Regent granted Scott the title of baronet. Sir Walter Scott Monument in Edinburgh's Princes Street William Wordsworth (1770 –1850) A major English Romantic poet
Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. Wordsworth received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in 1838 from Durham University, and the same honour from Oxford University the next year.
With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate. George Gordon Byron 6th Baron Byron (1778 – 1824) George Gordon Byron,
commonly known as
Lord Byron, was the
most widely read
English language poet
of his day. British
Romantic poet and
satirist. He was born in1788 in London and died in1824 in Missolonghi, Greece.
His ashes lie with his ancestors in Hucknall-Torkard Church in Nottinghamshire. Rudyard Kipling (1865- 1936) was born in India, in Bombay
spent his last years in Sussex in England in his picturesque mansion
his ashes were buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey