Virginia wolf is considered as one of the most important modernist authors of the 20th century.

She is known for using the stream of consciousness in her writing. Woolf is best known for her novels, especially To The Lighthouse and Mrs.Dalloway.

Virginia Woolf’s best quotes

1. “Books are the mirrors of the soul.” From Between The Acts.
2. “I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun,” From A Writers Diary.
3. “If you don’t tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.” From The Moments and Other Essays.
4. “I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.” From To The Lighthouse.
5. “I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words for me.” From The Waves.
6. “Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart, and his friends could only read the title.” From Jacobs Room.
7. .“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.” From A Room of One’s Own.
8. Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” From A Room of One’s Own.
9.  “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.” From Orlando.
10. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”From A Room of One’s Own.
11. “For most of history anonymous was a woman.” Virginia Woolf
12. “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”Virginia Woolf

Anglo-Irish playwright, novelists, poet, and critic oscar Wilde is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the victorian era. He was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin. Ireland.

Oscar Wilde in his lifetime wrote numerous poems, one novel, nine plays, short stories, and essays. He was imprisoned for his homosexual relationship because at that time it was considered a crime. His father sir Willam Wilde was an eye doctor and his mother jane Francisca Elgee was a poet and journalist. He published his first collection of poetry in 1881.

The picture of Dorian is his first and only novel. He attended oxford’s Magdalen college between 1874-1878 where he gets involved in the aesthetic movement and became an advocate for ‘art for art’s sake’.

Arts for art’s sake was an idea that art should not exist for any other motive than beauty. He also wrote children’s stories, the happy prince, and other tales.

The Picture of Dorian Gray( Poem), The Ballad of Reading Gaol (poem), and The Importance of Being Earnest (play) are some of his famous works.

Marry Shelly was born on 30 august 1797 in London, England. Frankenstein is her most famous novel. When the book was published she was only twenty-one years old. She also wrote two dramas, numerous short stories, travelogues, and biographies.

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 Her father William Godwin was a philosophy and political writer. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft died shortly after Shelley’s birth.

Mounseer Nongtonpow was her first poem, which was published in 1807. Mary met poet Percy Bysshe in 1812. They fell in love. The couple was married in 1816, after the suicide of Shelley’s wife.

In 1822 Percy selly died, and after his death, she returned to London. Mary also compiled the collection of poems by her husband.

She worked very hard to support herself and her only child Percy Florence. She wrote several novels before she died of brain cancer in 1851 at the age of 53.

Works:

Valperga(1823)

The last man (1826)

Lodore (1835)

Posthumously published Mathilde.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. -DANTE ALIGHIERI

Italian poet, literary theorist, prose writer, philosopher, and political thinker Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy. Best known for his poem la Commedia.

La Commedia (the divine comedy) is considered as one of the world literature’s greatest poems. The divine comedy is about the journey through the afterlife, it’s a very long poem of about 14,233 lines.

It took 10 years Dante to write this poem. Dante to write this poem.

The poem is divided into 3 sections (each section consisting of 33 verses); Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. In La Commedia, he recounts his journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise. Beatrice was the lover of Dante, who died too soon at the age of 25. Virgil (Roman poet) guides Dante through Inferno(hell) and Purgatorio(purgatory), while Beatrice guides him through Paradiso(heaven).

After that Dante comes face to face with God himself and the journey ends with true heroic and spiritual fulfillment.

The poem is written from Dante’s perspective and follows Dante’s journey through hell, purgatory, and final heaven. Dante the character in the poem is a fictional creation of Dante the poet. Dante’s journey through the afterlife was his spiritual journey.