Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold was born in Laleham-on-the-Thames on 1822, sixteen miles west of London. He is the eldest son of Thomas Arnold, historian and the headmaster of Rugby School. The family moved to Rugby in 1828 when Thomas Arnold took at his post as the headmaster of the school. Education: The future poet, Arthur Hugh Clough, became a pupil in 1829. He was sent back to Laleham as a boarder at his uncle John Bucklands preparatory school in 1831,where he continued for a year. He then returned home to be tutored along with his younger brother, Tom, by Herbert Hill. He was sent to Winchester in 1836 and Rugby School in 1837, and then entered Balliol College, Oxford in 1841. In 1845, he studied for and was awarded a fellowship at Oriel College. Experiences: He was given the position of private secretary to Lord Lansdowne in 1847 and in 1851 Lansdowne appointed him to a position as inspector of schools. In 1857, he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Marriage: His financial security allowed him to marry Fanny Lucy Wightman, the daughter of a judge who would bear him six children, three of whom died in childhood. Death: He died suddenly in 1888 while walking with his wife to meet his daughter who was arriving on a boat from USA. Works: The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849) Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems (1852) Poems (1853) Poems, Second Series (1855) Merope (1857) Lectures on Translating Homer (1861) Last Words on Translating Homer (1862) Essays on Criticism (1865) New Poems (1867) Literature and Dogma (1873) Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877)

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

He was born in the parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire on 1832, the eldest boy in the family of six girls and four boys.

Education: In 1843, the family moved to Croft-on-Tees in North Yorkshire. Initially educated at home, in 1844 he was sent first to a small private school nearby Richmond, then, in 1845 to Rugby School. He left Rugby in 1849 and was enrolled as a student in Christ Church, Oxford in 1851 and graduated in 1854. Experiences: He became a lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church and from 18561880 he took pictures of friends, celebrities and children, mainly girls of his acquaintance. Death: He died in Guildford in 1898, leaving a very specific instructions that his funeral should avoid ostentation and unnecessary expense. Works: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872) The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Sylvie and Bruno (1889 & 1893)

Robert Browning
He was born in Camberwell, a suburb of London, England, on 1812, the first son of Robert who as a well paid clerk for the Bank of England and Sarah Anna Browning who was a musician. He had one sister, Sarianna. His father encouraged his interest in literature and arts. Education: At the age of sixteen, he attended University College London but let after his first year. His mothers staunch evangelical faith prevented his studying at either Oxford University or Cambridge University; both then open only to members of the Church of England. Marriage:

In 1845, Browning met Elizabeth Barrett, who lived as a semi- invalid in her fathers house in Wimpole Street. Gradually a significant romance developed between them, leading their secret marriage and flight on September 12, 1846. The marriage was initially secret because Elizabeths father disapproved of marriage for any of his children. From the time of their marriage, the Brownings lived in Italy, first in Pisa and then, within a year, finding an apartment in Florence at Casa Guidi. They had a son, Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning. Death: He died at his sons home Ca Rezzonico in Venice on December 12, 1889 and was buried in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey. Works: Pauline: A Fragment Confession (1833) Paracelsus (1835) Strafford (play) (1837) Sordello (1840) Bells and Pomegranates No. 1: Pippa Passes (play) (1841) Bells and Pomegranates No. 2: King Victor and king Charles (play) (1842) Bells and Pomegranates No. 3: Dramatic Lyrics (1842) Porphyrias Lover Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister My Last Duchess

Elizabeth Browning
She was born on March 6, 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, between the villages of Coxhoe and Kelloe in Country Durham, England. Her parents were Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett and Mary Graham- Clarke; she was the eldest of their twelve children (eight boys and four girls). All the children lived to adulthood except for one girl who died at the age of four when Elizabeth was eight. She was baptized in 1809 at Kelloe Parish Church. Education: She was educated at home with his brothers tutor. This gave her a good education for a girl of that time, and she said to have read passages from Paradise Lost and a number of Shakespearian plays.

Death: Upon hearing the death of his sister, she became gradually weaker and died on June 29, 1861. She was buried in the English Cemetery of Florence. Works: The Battle of Marathon: A Poem (1820) An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems (1826) The Seraphim and other Poems (1838) The Cry of Children (1842) Poems (1844) Casa Guidi Window (1851) Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) Aurora Leigh (1857) Last Poems (1862) The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets (1863)

William Earnest Henley

He was born in Gloucester on 1849 and was the eldest of a family of six children, five sons and daughter. His father William was a bookseller and stationer. His mother, Mary Morgan, was a descended from the poet and critic, Joseph Warton. Education: From 1861- 67, he was a pupil at the Crypt Grammar School. During 1867, he passed the Oxford Local School Examination. Experiences: During 1889, he became editor of various magazines like Scots Observer, an Edinburgh journal similar to the old Saturday Review and the Magazine of Art. Marriage: He married Salina Robinson Henley and had a daughter.

Death: He died on 1903 at the age of 53 and was buried in the same churchyard as his daughter in Cockayne Hatley. Works: Invictus (1875) Views and Reviews (1890) The Song of the Sword Macaire Pro Rege Nostro England, My England England, their England Margaritae Sorori

INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It maters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am master of my fate; I am captain of my soul.

Prepared by: Jaydee Joyce D. Mercado