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The Kid- Charles Chaplin  About the Author   Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1978) was born in Lon- don, England. He was a British actor who became one of the biggest stars of the 20th-century salient film era. Charlie was thrown on his own resources before he reached the age of 10 due to the early death of his father and the illness of his mother. When he was about 12, he got his first chance to act. Chaplin started his career as a comedian in vaudeville, which eventually took him to the United States in 1910. He became an immediate hit there. His career spread over more than 75 years. His first feature film was "The Kid" (1921) followed by "A Woman of Paris" (1923), "The Gold Rush" (1925), and "The Circus (1928). He produced movies like "City Lights" (1931 ) and "Modern Times" (1936). Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, edited, and acted in most of his films. In 1972, as part of the appreciat

This Dog - Rabindranath Tagore - Poetry  About the Author           Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is honored by titles such as Gurudev, Kabigum, and Biswakabi. He was a person of wide learn- ing and knowledge who had expertise in many fields like music, literature, painting, philosophy, and religion. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his renowned collection of poems, Gitanjali. Tagore began writing poetry when he was 8 years old and published his first collection of poems at the age of 16. There are about 50 collections of poems written by him in Bengali along with numerous novels, short stories, and philosophical writings. Many of these have been translated into English by Tagore himself. He was invited by the Western nations for lectures on topics related to Art, Philosophy, and Religion. He was humanist and supported independence from Britain.                He introduced new styles of prose and verse and promoted the us

A Poison Tree - William Blake About the Author  William Blake ( 1757-1827 ) is regarded as the most original of the English Romantic poets. Unfortunately, he was mostly neglected and was even thought of as a mad person in his times. He was an engraver, artist, poet, and visionary. He wrote wonderful lyrics in his collections entitled Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience published in 1794. He also painted scenes from the works of Milton, Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible. His works are classed as ' prophetic books ' such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion ( 1793 ), The First Book of Urizen ( 1794 ), Milton ( 1810 ), and Jerusalem ( 1812 ) are deeply philosophical, difficult and long series of poems. He engraved, colored, printed, stitched, and sold these words, with the help of his wife, Catherine. Some of his highly appreciated poems are " The Lamb " - " The T ger " and " London ", The " Jerusalem &q