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Samuel Taylor Coleridge    - Poet of Romantic Age. He is also called Lake poet alongwith Wordsworth and Southey.  - Birthplace: Devonshire England.  - Father's name: John Coleridge.  - Educated at Christ Hospital and Cambridge University. At Christ Hospital school he met with Charles Lamb - He met with Wordsworth and Dorothy in 1795.  - He studied Arabian Nights.  - Romantic age starts from 1798 and ends in 1837 when Queen Victoria became Queen. - Romantic age is divided into two generation poets: First generation poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Walter Scott, Robert Southey. Second generation poets: Lord Byron, P.B Shelley, John Keats. - His first volume of poems called "Poems on Various Subjects" was published in 1796. - He was influenced by Immanuel Kant. And he won Browne Gold Medal for " Ode on Slave Trade". - Coleridge and Wordsworth tried to create an equal society named as Pantisocracy. - His literary periodical was called "The Watch man. - Lyrica...

  William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) - He was born in Cokermouth, lake district.  - He is called Nature's Poet, Harbinger of Nature, High Priest of Nature, and Worshiper of Nature.  - Three lake Poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Robert Southey.  -Period of Wordsworth best poetry: 1797-1808. - Wordsworth was influenced by French Revolution.  - His debut as a writer was made in the year 1787 when he got published a sonnet in "The European Magazine" during his undergraduation at St. John College, Cambridge.  - In 1794, he moved to Racedown lodge with his sister Dorothy where he met S.T Coleridge.  - With Increase relation at the Alfoxden House, Wordsworth and Coleridge decided to collaborate on "The Lyrical Ballads (1798). - Lyrical Ballads began with Coleridge's   " The Rime of Ancient Mariner " and ended with Wordsworth's Tintern's Abbey".  - Around the same time, Wordsworth started to put in time for his autobiographical work,  "The P...

 - Born in Stratford-upon-Avon. - Ben Johnson called him "Sweet Bard of Avon.  - Father's name: John Shakespeare.  - Mother's name: Marry Shakespeare.  - Wife's name: Anne Hathaway.  - 3 children: Susanna, Hamnet, Judith (last two were twins).  - Shakespeare was one of the Eight children from which only 5 survived (4 sons and 1 daughter)  - Shakespeare's Title: Bard of Avon.  - Shakespeare Buried in: Holy Trinity Church.  - Shakespeare's contemporary: C Marlowe.  - Shakespeare owned two theatres: The Globe Theatre (1599) and The Black Friars. The Goble theatre caught fire in 1613 and was rebuild in 1614.  - Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, 37 plays, two narrative and one short (Phoenix and The Turtle) poem.   - Richard II and King John are the plays completely written in verse only. Rest of the plays are written in verse and prose.  - King John was the first play to be filmed in 1899. - Longest play: Hamlet (4042 lines...