Some of the greatest Romantic poets came from England in 18th and early 19th centuries.

Six of the best known with some of their best known works were

William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Wordsworth – The Prelude
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
George Gordon, Lord Byron – Don Juan, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound, "Adonaïs", "Ode to the West Wind", "Ozymandias"
John Keats – Great Odes, "Hyperion", "Endymion."

Stratford on Avon, in the county of Warwickshire, in West Midlands, was the birthplace of Shakespeare, and is visited to this day by literati and tourists alike.

Lady Diana Spencer, who became Princess Diana of England, was one of the great tragic figures of the 20th Century.  She devoted herself to many humanitarian cause in her life, and became known as " The People's Princess."

One the last causes to which she devoted herself before her untimely death was the Red Cross, and Princess Ring continues to donate a portion of all proceeds from the sale of Princess Ring jewelry to Red Cross, in her honor.

William Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers of all time.  His mind worked on so many different levels at once - writing poetically, metaphorically and historically to create some of mankind's greatest works of literature.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

1066 was an important date in the history of England.  If it were not for the Battle of Hastings and the victory of Norman conquerors, perhaps today the form of English spoken in England, Australia and the Colonies   would be quite different.