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Cambridge celebrities BY：宝灵，卞慧，蔡晴，陈丹丹 Lord Byron Lord Byron An English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byrons best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, well go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harolds Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet Prince of the Humanists; he has been called the crowning glory of the Christian humanists. Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. These raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia:Foundations of a Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works. John Milton John Milton an English poet,polemicist, a scholarlyman of letters, and a civil servant for the Commanwelth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. Miltons poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica, (written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship) is among historys most influential and impassioned defenses of free speech and freedom of the press Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria’s reign and remains one of the most popular