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William Blake
An English poet. He was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, but now he is held in high regard for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. -
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William Wordsworth
An English poet. He died from pleurisy. -
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John Keats
An English poet. He died from tuberculosis at the age of 25. At the time he lived, people did not like or understand his work - maybe because it was too complex at the time. He experienced unhappy love and the feeling of alienation and not fitting in/belonging to the real world - he experienced an existential situation in a world that does not meet his desires. This affected his poetry, where he amongst other things experimented with ballads and its supernatural elements. -
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Mary Shelley
An English author, especially known for writing Frankenstein. She had a life full of tradegies: her mother died, she had a troubled relationship with her stepmother, she experienced debt and several of her children died. -
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Edgar Allen Poe
An American author. He had a troubled life: his father left and her mother died when he was young, and therefore he was orphaned and later adopted. The cause of his death is unknown. He wrote gothic texts with themes such as death - including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning.