Sorces:

http://www.bardweb.net/man.html

http://www.williamshakespeare.info/williamshakespearepoems.htm

http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/

http:///www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/William_Shakespeare/william_shakespeare_contents.htm http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/shakespearebio.html

William Shakespeare's

Sonnet 132

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,

Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain,

Have put on black and loving mourners be,

Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

And truly not the morning sun of heaven

Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,

Nor that full star that ushers in the even

Doth half that glory to the sober west,

As those two mourning eyes become thy face:

O, let it then as well beseem thy heart

To mourn for me, since mourning doth thee grace,

And suit thy pity like in every part.

Then will I swear beauty herself is black

And all they foul that thy complexion lack.

Biography:

Born:

In Stratford-Upon-Avon

April 23, 1564

Died:

April 23, 1616

Education:

Not much is know but it is believed that the King's New Grammer School taught him. There he most likely studied theater and acting.

Life:

William married at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway who was 26. They has 3 kids first was Susanna and the next two were twins; Hamnet and Judith.

He joined an acting company named the Lord Chemberlin's Men which was protected by the Queen. As he popularity blossemed he became co-owner of The Globe Theater.

Works:

Plays

"Mid Summer Nights Dream"

"Richard III"

"Romeo and Juliet"

"Taming of the Shrew"

"As you like It"

"Macbeth"

"Hamlet"

"Othello"

"King Lear"

Sonnets

There are about 154 sonnets that William Shakespeare has wrote.

Poems

"A Lover's Complaint"

"Phoenix and the Turtle"

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

By John Steinbeck

February 19, 2010

Biography

Born:

February 27, 1902

Salinas, California

Died:

December 20, 1968

New York City

Education:

He graduated high school in 1919. Then went to Stanford University. In 1925 he left Standford permanently to pursue a writing career. But his work was not getting published in New York so he returned to California.

Life:

Steinbeck married women his first wife was Carol Henning Steinbeck Brown they were married for 12 years. Second wife was Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck they had been married for 5 years. His last wife's name was Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck and they were married for 18 years till 1968 when he died and she died 2003.

He had tow sons with Cwyndolyn. Their names are Thomas Steinbeck and

Books of his:

"The Grapes of Wrath"

"Of Mice and Men"

"The Red Pony"

"East of Eden"

"The Pearl"

"Cannery Row"

"The Moon is Full

"Travels With Charlie"

-That's not all just some of them

Sources:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_steinbeck.html

http://www.steinbeck.org/Bio.html

"Ballerina" by Edgar Dugas

February 18, 2010

Biography

Born:

July 19, 1834 in Paris, France

Grew up:

In Paris France

Died:

September 27, 1917in Paris, France

For education Edgar went to the school Louis-le-Grand a school for the elite. He then went on to enroll to Faculty of Law but then in 1855 he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

In 1856 he went to Italy first visiting family. 1857 he visited Rome. 1859 he returned to Paris and set up a stdio at rue Laval.

He never married and never had kids.

"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people." by Edgar Degas

Sources:

http://www.mezzo-mondo.com/arts/mm/degas/degas.html

http://www.notablebiographies.com/De-Du/Degas-Edgar.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_kids_did_Edgar_Degas_have

http://annevdns.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ballerina.jpg

January 15th 2010

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Hope you enjoy it!!

"Automat"
By Edward Hopper

"No artist has painted a more revealing portrait of twentieth-century America. But he was not merely an objective realist. His art was charged with strong personal emotion, with a deep attachment to our familiar everyday world, in all its ugliness, banality, and beauty."

By Lloyd Goodrich

Here is a snippet little autobiography of Edward Hopper

Biography

He was born in the small Hudson River town of Nyack, New York State, on 22 July 1882. His family was solidly middle-class. By 1899 he had already decided to become an artist, but his parents convinced him to begin by studying commercial illustration because this seemed to offer a more secure future. He first attended the New York School of Illustrating, then in 1900 transferred to the New York School of Art.

Then finally 1913 at the Armory Show Edward Hopper sold his first portrait. 19324 Hopper married Jo Nivison his neighbor and friend. She too was an artist. Then in 1967 Edward Hopper passed away.

Sources: ttp://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hopper.html,http://www.leninimports.com/edward_hopper.html,

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/hopper_ext.html