Biography
Summary of Antigone by Sophocles
July 25, 2026
Antigone’s two brothers, Polynices and Eteocles, had fought a battle for the sake of the kingship of Thebes. As the play begins, they are both dead, having killed each other in the war. Creon, the...
Antigone | Sophocles
July 25, 2026
Antigone, the last trilogy of Sophocles but written first in 442 BC, centers on the conflict between Creon, the dictator of Thebes and the strong willed Antigone. The play has only one main plot and...
Sophocles | Biography
July 24, 2026
Sophocles was one of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Euripides. Unlike his younger contemporary, the often-misunderstood Euripides, Sophocles had the fortune of being revered for his...
Rupert Brooke | Biography
July 12, 2026
Rupert Brooke was a poet born to distinction. Son of a Rugby master, he studied at his father’s school and at King’s College, Cambridge, and won many academic honors. He was born into a well-to-do-academic...
Ted Hughes | Biography
July 12, 2026
Ted Hughes was born on 17th August 1930 in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. His father, William Hughes had fought on the Gallipoli Peninsula in April 1915. William Hughes was one of the only seventeen survivors of...
Thomas Gray | Biography
July 11, 2026
Thomas Gray was born on 26 December 1716 as the fifth child to Philip Gray and Dorothy Antrobus in Cornhill, London. He was a poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. His...
Sylvia Plath | Biography
July 11, 2026
Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is an American poet, whose work is known for its savage imagery and themes of self-destruction, and for the violent protest of a feminist persona generalizing male as...
Emily Dickinson | Biography
July 11, 2026
Emily Dickinson a very sensitive lyrical poet was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a well-known family. For one year she attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now College), in nearby South Hadley, then withdrew and returned...
