
Biography of William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the nineteenth century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Its heroine, Becky Sharp, is one of the stronger female characters to emerge from the nineteenth century. In Thackeray's own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope ranked his The History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels. It is perhaps for this reason that they have not survived as well as Vanity Fair, which satirizes those values. The power of satire lies in its ability to create sympathetically treat human foibles while at the same time lampooning them, as Thackeray does in Vanity Fair.
Poems by William Makepeace Thackeray
- A Credo
- A Credo (After The German)
- A Doe In The City
- A Tragic Story
- A Woeful New Ballad Of The Protestant Conspiracy To Take The Pope’s Life
- Abd-El-Kader At Toulon Or, The Caged Hawk
- Ad Ministram
- Ah, Bleak And Barren Was The Moor
- At The Church-Gate
- At The Zoo
- Atra Cura
- Come To The Greenwood Tree
- Commanders Of The Faithful
- Damages, Two Hundred Pounds
- Dear Jack
- Fairy Days
- Friar’s Song
- From Pocahontas
- Jacob Homnium’s Hoss
- Jolly Jack
- King Canute
- Larry O’toole
- Le Grenier
- Le Roi D’yvetot
- Lines On A Late Hospicious Ewent, By A Gebtleman Of The Footguards (Blue)
- Lines Upon My Sister’s Portrait
- Little Billee
- Lucy’s Birthday
- May-Day Ode
- Molony’s Lament
- Mr. Molony’s Account Of The Ball
- My Nora
- On A Very Old Woman
- Peg Of Limavaddy
- Persicos Odi
- Piscator And Piscatrix
- Pocahontas
- Requiescat
- Roger-Bontemps
- Ronsard To His Mistress
- Serenade
- Song Of The Violet
- Sorrows Of Werther
- The Age Of Wisdom
- The Almack’s Adieu
- The Ballad Of Bouillabaisse
- The Battle Of Limerick
- The Caique
- The Cane-Bottom'D Chair
- The Chaplet
- The Chronicle Of The Drum
- The Crystal Palace
- The End Of The Play
- The King Of Brentford
- The King Of Brentford’s Testament
- The King On The Tower
- The Knight And The Lady
- The Knightly Guerdon
- The Lamentable Ballad Of The Foundling Of Shoreditch
- The Last Irish Grievance
- The Last Of May
- The Legend Of St. Sophia Of Kioff
- The Mahogany Tree
- The Mayfair Love-Song
- The Merry Bard
- The Minaret Bells
- The Organ-Boy’s Appeal
- The Pen And The Album
- The Pimlico Pavilion
- The Red Flag
- The Rocks
- The Rose Of Flora
- The Rose Upon My Balcony
- The Sorows Of Werther
- The Speculators
- The Three Christmas Waits
- The White Squall
- The Willow-Tree
- The Willow-Tree (Another Version)
- The Wolfe New Ballad Of Jane Roney And Mary Brown
- The Yankee Volunteers
- Titmarsh’s Carmen Lilliense
- To His Serving Boy
- To Mary
- Vanitas Vanitatum
- Wapping Old Stairs
- When Moonlike Ore The Hazure Seas
- When The Gloom Is On The Glen