Emglish Literature

HUMSS 11
25 ENGLISH LITERATURE AUTHORS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare
was an English poet,
playwright, and actor,
widely regarded as the
greatest writer in the
English language and
the world`s greatest
dramatist.
He is often called
ENGLAND NATIONSL
POET and the BOARD
OF AVON
ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR
Eric Arthur Blair,
better known his pen
name George Orwell,
was an English novelist
and essayist, journalist
and critic. His works is
characterized by lucid
prose, biting social
criticism, opposition to
totalitarianism, and
outspoken support of
democratic socialism.
WILLIAM CUTHBERT FAULKNER
Was an American
writer and Nobel
prize laureate from
oxford, Mississippi.
Faulkner wrote
novels, short
stories, screen
plays, poetry,
essays, and a play
CHARLES JHON HUFFAM DICKENS
FRSA
Was an English
writer and social
critic. He created
some of the world`s
best-known fictional
characters and is
regarded by many as
the greatest novelist
of the Victorian era.
JANE AUSTEN
Was an English novelist
known primarily for her
six major novel, which
interpret, critique and
comment upon the
British landed gentry at
the 18thth century. Austen
plots often explore the

dependence of women on
marriage in the pursuit of
favorable social standing
and economic securiy
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT OM
Was a poet,
essayist, publisher,
playwright, literacy
critic and editor.
ADELINE VIRGINIA WOOLF
Was an English
writer, considered
one of the most
important
modernist 20th –
century authors and
also a pioneer in
the use of
consciousness as a
narrative device.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Was an English poet
and author. Widely
considered the
greatest English poet
of the middle ages,
he is best known for
the Canterbury tales.
He has been called
the ‘ FATHER OF
ENGLISH POETRY’
JAMES AUGUSTINE ALOYSIUS JOYCE
Was an Irish
novelist, short story
writer, poet,
teacher, and
literacy critic
SAMUEL TAILOR COLERIDGE
Was an English
poet, literacy critic,
philosopher and
theologian who, with
his friend WILLIAM
WORDSWORTH, was a
founder of the
romantic movement
in England and a
member of the lake
poets
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Was an English
Romantic poet who,
with SAMUEL
TAYLOR COLERIDGE,
helped to launch the
Romantic Age i
English literature
with their joint
publication lyrical
Ballads
JHON MILTON
Was an English
poet and
intellectual who
served as a civil
servant for the
commonwealth of
England under its
council of state and
later under Oliver
Cromwell.
JHON KEATS
Was an English
Romantic poet. He was
one of the main figures
of the second generation
of Romantic poets, along
with Lord Byron and
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
despite his works having
been in publication for
only four years before his
death from tuberculosis
at the age of 25.
GEORGE ELIOT
Mary Ann Evans,
known her pen
name George Eliot,
was an English
novelist, poet,
journalist,
translator and one
of the leading
writers of the
Victorian era.
LORD BYRON
George Gordon
Byron, FRS, known
simply as Lord Byron,
was an English poet,
peer and politician who
became a revolutionary
in the Greek war
independence, and is
considered one of the
leading figures of the
Romantic movement.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Also known as Kit
Marlowe, was an
English playwright,
poet and translator
of the Elizabethan
era.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Was an English
Poet, painter and
printmaker. Blake is
now considered a
seminal figure in
the history of the
poetry and Visual
arts of the
Romantic Age.
LEO TOLSTOY
Count Lev
Nikolayevich
Tolstoy, usually
referred to in
English as Leo
Tolstoy, was an
Russian writer who
is regarded as one
of the greatest
authors of all time.
DANIEL DEFOE
Born Daniel foe,
was an English
trader, writer,
journalist,
pamphleteer and
spy.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Was an Anglo-
Irish satirist,
essayist, political
pamphleteer, poet
and cleric who
became Dean of St
Patrick`s Cathedral,
Dublin, hence his
common sobriquet,
‘DEAN SWIFT’.
D.H. LAWRENCE
David Herbert
Lawrence was an
English writer and
poet. His collected
works represent,
among other thing,
an extended
reflection upon the
dehumanizing effects
of modernity and
industrialization.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Was an Polish-
Britist writer
regarded as one of
the greatest
novelists to write in
the English
Language.
JHON DONNE
Was an English
poet, scholar,
soldier and
secretary born into
a Catholic family.
He is considered
the pre-eminent
representative of
the metaphysical
poets.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Was an English
writer and
philosopher
* He wrote nearly
fifty books
SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS
Known by his
pen name MARK
TWAIN, was an
American writer,
humorist,
entrepreneur,
publisher, and
lecturer.

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