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Category: Classics

Birth of Saki (H. H. Munro) (1870–1916) – The Writer Who Perfected the Lethal Sentence in English

Dec 18, 2025
Birth of Jane Austen (1775–1817) – The Mind That Taught English Fiction How to Think

Dec 16, 2025
Birth of Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) – The European Lyric Who Recast English Romantic Irony

Dec 13, 2025
Birth of Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) – The Private Genius Who Rewrote English Poetry

Dec 10, 2025
Birth of Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) – The Lyricist Who Gave Modern English Its Songbook Wit and Rhythm

Dec 6, 2025
George Seferis – Collected Poems

Dec 4, 2025
Birth of William Blake (1757–1827) – The Visionary Poet Who Transformed the Imagination of English Literature

Nov 28, 2025
Song of Sorrows (or The Wife’s Lament)

Nov 27, 2025
Death of Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552–1616) – The Great Chronicler of English Voyages and the Early Global Reach of the English Language

Nov 23, 2025
Birth of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863 – 1944) – The Anthologist Who Helped Define the Canon of English Poetry

Nov 21, 2025

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