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The 19th century saw rapid development and changes in the relationships between different artistic fields. Literature from the United Kingdom played a leading role, represented by prominent writers such as George Byron, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Thackeray, and George Bernard Shaw. Specifically, George Byron was an English poet who symbolized romanticism and liberalism in Europe. Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, playwright and essayist who received a classical education but followed his own path. Charles Dickens was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era.
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- 2. XIX century - a time of rapid development of all spheres of artistic culture, with their relationship and role have undergone significant changes. This period was very bright and at the same time important. Literature of the United Kingdom of the XIX century occupies a leading place in world literature. Prose of English literature of that time is represented by the names of George Byron, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Thackeray, Bernard Shaw and other prominent writers and playwrights.
- 3. George Gordon Byron is an English poet who became a symbol of romanticism and political liberalism in Europe in the 19th century. Participant in the Greek Revolution. George was born in London in an old, but in impoverished aristocratic family. After the death of his grandfather Byron became a lord, and inherited his family estate - Newstead Abbey, where he settled. In 1801, Byron entered Harrow, a school for children from wealthy and noble families.
- 4. Oscar Wilde is an English poet, playwright, writer, and essayist of Irish origin. Born in the family of William Wilde, doctor and writer Jane Francisco Eljee. He received a classical education: aesthetic looks were formed at Trinity College (Dublin) and the Oxford College of St. Magdaleny - but went on his own way, guided by his own thesis: "The things that really need to be understood will not be interpreted by anyone."
- 7. Charles John Huff Dickens is an English writer, one of the most popular novelists of the Victorian era, a well-known political agitator. Charles
- 10. Walter Scott is an English and Scottish poet, writer, biographer and novelist. Most worked in the genre of the historical novel. In his works he was able to create extremely realistic images of historical reality. Born in Edinburgh in the family of lawyer Walter Scott, his mother, Anna Rutherford, was the daughter of a professor of medicine at Edinburgh University.
- 12. William Mackpys Tackeray is an English satirist writer. He was the son of an officer of the colonial forces of the British Empire and belonged to the privileged sections of English society. After graduating from Charthouse, he enrolled at Cambridge University, but did not receive a degree, because the civil servant career did not attract him. He wanted to do only art, so he went to France.
- 14. George Bernard Shaw - an English playwright and publicist of Irish descent, born in Dublin, a Nobel Prize winner in literature for 1925, died in Ayote Saint Lawrence, England.