My Favourite Literature Work
Being a member of a literary club, I’d like to tell you about my favourite literature work. It is “Romeo and Juliet” by W. Shakespeare. It’s no wonder because Shakespeare is one of the greatest writers in the world literature.
W. Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon. After his father’s death he went to London and started to work at the theatre. He was an actor, a playwright and then he built his own theatre – “The Globe”. Shakespeare wrote many plays and nearly all of them are world-famous.
“Romeo and Juliet” is a touching story about love between two young people. They couldn’t be together because their families were enemies. This is a tragedy and at the end of that sad story Romeo and Juliet died. But this play made us think that real love couldn’t be killed.
W. Shakespeare wrote many plays. I advise you to read “Hamlet”, “Othello”, “King Lear” and others. They teach the reader to love a man, to struggle for all that is good and high and to fight against all that is bad and low. In other words, Shakespeare’s plays are, and will always be, a great school of life for those who read them.
My Favourite Poet
Being a member of our literary club, I’d like to tell you about my favourite poet.
As you know I study English at school and do my best to know this language and literature well. It’s no wonder because English poets and writers stand high in world literature. Their names are dear to all those who love reading.
My favourite English poet is George Gordon Byron. He was born in 1788 in a poor aristocratic family. The family lived in Scotland, where the boy went to a Grammar School. He liked history and read much. Though the boy was born lame, he liked sports and trained every day.
In 1798 Byron inherited the title of Lord. The family moved to another place. George was sent to Harrow School for boys from aristocratic families. At 17 Byron entered Cambridge University and there his literary career began.
In 1809 he went travelling over Europe. Byron described his travels in his poem “Child Harold’s Pilgrimage”. It was published in 1812 and made Byron famous.
For his revolutionary ideas the poet had to leave England. In 1817 he went to Italy where he wrote many of his best poems – “Don Juan” and “Cain”. Then he went to Greece to help Greek people in their struggle for national independence. In this country Byron fell ill with typhus in April 1824.
Unfortunately, I have read his poems only in Russian and Ukrainian, but I am sure some day I shall be able to read them in the original.