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Biographies in the English language began appearing during the reign of Henry VIII. John Foxe's Actes and Monuments (1563), better known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, was essentially the first dictionary of the biography in Europe, followed by Thomas Fuller's The History of the Worthies of England (1662), with a distinct focus on public life.
Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [7] Biographical criticism is often associated with historical-biographical criticism , [ 8 ] a critical method that "sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a ...
Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (/ ˈ b ɒ z w ɛ l,-w əl /; 29 October 1740 [1] – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh.He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [3] [4] [5] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
Biography of Halldór Laxness; Lewis Carroll: A Biography; The Life of Charlotte Brontë; The Life of Ian Fleming; The Life of John Sterling; Life of Mr Richard Savage; The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Life of Samuel Johnson (Hawkins book) Life with My Sister Madonna; Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers; Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Ruskin publicly acknowledged that Carlyle was the author to whom he "owed more than to any other living writer", [160] and would frequently refer to him as his "master", writing after Carlyle's death that he was "throwing myself now into the mere fulfilment of Carlyle's work".
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]