All age’s poets, Prose writers, Novelists name
Old English or Anglo-Saxon age’s poets: (450-1066)
• Caedmon
• Cynewulf
• The Venerable Bede (Historian)
• Alfred the Great (Prose writer)
Middle English, Chaucer’s or Anglo-Norman age’s poets: (1066-1400)
• William Langland
• John Gower
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Layamon
• John Wycliffe (Prose writer)
• John Barbour
• Sir John Mandeville (Prose writer)
• Petrarch (Italian Poet)
Fifteenth century’s poets and Scottish Chaucerian’s: (1400-1500)
• John Lydgate
• Thomas Occleve or Hoccleve
• George Ashby
• John Skelton
• Henry Bradshaw (British Librarian)
• Stephen Hawes
• Benedict Burgh (Clerk and Translator)
• Thomas Malory (Prose Writer)
• William Caxton (Painter and introducer of printing press in England)
Scottish Chaucerian of fifteenth century:
• King James I of Scotland
• Robert Henry son
• William Dunbar
• Gavin Douglas
The Renaissance and Reformation age’s poets: (1485-1558)
• Sir Thomas Wyatt
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
• Erasmus (Prose writer)
• Roger Ascham (Prose writer)
• Thomas Elyot (English Diplomat)
• Thomas Norton
The Elizabethan age’s poets: (1558-1603)
• Sir Philip Sidney
• Edmund Spencer
• Thomas Sackville
• William Shakespeare (Poet &Dramatist)
• George Gascoigne
• George Chapman
• Michael Drayton
The University Wits:
• John Lyly
• George Peele
• Thomas Lodge
• Thomas Kyd
• Robert Greene
• Christopher Marlow
• Thomas Nash
The Jacobean age’s dramatists: (1603-1625)
• Ben Johnson
• Francis Beaumont
• John Fletcher
• John Webster
• Cyril Tourneur
• Thomas Middleton
• Thomas Heywood
• George Chapman
• Thomas Dekker
• John Marston
• Phillip Massinger
• John Ford
• James Shirley
The Metaphysical Poets:
• John Donne
• George Herbert
• Richard Crashaw
• Henry Vaughan
• Andrew Marvell
• Abraham Cowley
The Puritan age’s poets/The Cavalier Poets:(1625-1660)
• Thomas Carew
• Sir John Suckling
• Richard Lovelace
• John Milton (Poet &Prose writer)
• Jeremy Taylor (Prose writer)
• Richard Baxter (Prose writer)
• Thomas Fuller (Prose writer)
• Sir Thomas Browne (Prose writer)
• John Bunyan (Prose writer)
• William Drummond (Prose writer)
The Restoration age’s poets: (1660-1700)
• John Dryden (Poet & Prose writer)
• Samuel Pepys (Poet & Prose writer)
• John Locke (Poet & Prose writer)
• Thomas Hobbes (Poet & Prose writer)
• Thomas Sprat (Poet & Prose writer)
• William Temple (Poet & Prose writer)
• Samuel Butler (Poet & Prose writer)
The age of Reason and Neo-Classicism, Augustan age’s poets: (1700-
1745)
• Alexander Pope
• John Gay
• Richard Steele (Prose writer)
• Joseph Addison (Prose writer)
• Jonathan Swift (Prose writer)
• Arbuthnot (Prose writer)
• Bolingbroke (Prose writer)
• The Earl of Shaftesbury (Prose writer)
The age of Transition’s poets: (1745-1798)
• Samuel Johnson
• James Boswell (Scottish Biographer)
• Oliver Goldsmith (Poet, Prose writer, Novelist)
• James Thomson
• William Somerville
• Edward Young
• Thomas Gray
• William Collins
• William Cowper
• Robert Burns
• Thomas Percy
• James Macpherson
• George Crabbe
• David Hume (Prose writer)
• William Robertson (Prose writer)
• Edward Gibbon (Prose writer)
• Edmund Burke (Prose writer)
• Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
• R.B Sheridan (Comedian)
• Daniel Defoe (Novelist)
• Samuel Richardson (Novelist)
• Henry Fielding (Novelist)
• Eliza Haywood (Novelist)
• Tobias Smollett (Novelist)
• Laurence Sterne (Novelist)
• Ann Radcliffe (Novelist)
• Fanny Burney (Novelist)
• Sarah Fielding (Novelist)
• Charlotte Lennox (Novelist)
• Richard Graves (Novelist)
• John Cleland (Novelist)
• Henry Mackenzie (Novelist)
• Horace Walpole (Novelist)
• William Beckford (Novelist)
• Mathew Lewis (Novelist)
The Romanticism age’s poets: (1798-1834)
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Robert Southey
• Lord Byron
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• John Keats
• Jane Austen (Novelist)
• Sir Walter Scott (Novelist)
• Mary Shelley
• Charles Lamb (Essayist)
• William Hazlitt (Essayist)
• Thomas De Quincy (Essayist)
