Harold Pinter: Quick Facts

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Born	October 10, 1930 • London • England
Died	December 24, 2008 (aged 78) • London • England
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (2005)
Notable Works	“Moonlight” • “The Birthday Party” • “The Caretaker” • “The Dumb Waiter“ • “The Homecoming” • “The Room”
Movement / Style	Theatre of the Absurd

T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England

John Galsworthy

British writer

Tom Stoppard wearing a dark suit, blue checkered shirt, and green tie, looking at the camera against a dark background.

Tom Stoppard

Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter

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British dramatist

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

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Mike Leigh

British writer and director

P.G. Wodehouse sits at a desk with a typewriter, holding a pipe and looking at papers, in his Paris home in 1945.

P.G. Wodehouse

British author

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David Mercer

British playwright

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Robert Bolt

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R.C. Sherriff

British writer

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William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet

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Wole Soyinka

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Peter Handke

Peter Handke

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Samuel Beckett, 1965

Samuel Beckett

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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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British poet and critic

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

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Edward Young

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Rudyard Kipling

British writer

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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