English Literature with Shakespeare
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Famous English Literature Writers
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Famous English Literature Writers
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Know the famous English literature writers
2. Scan some literary piece from English writers
3. Comment on literary master peices
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
English poet and playwright – Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest writer in
the English language. He wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets.
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
English author who wrote romantic fiction combined with social realism. Her novels
include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816)>
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English writer and social critic. His best known works include novels such as Oliver
Twist, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol.
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
English novelist and poet, from Haworth. Her best-known novel is ‘Jane Eyre’
(1847).
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
English novelist. Bronte is best known for her novel Wuthering Heights (1847), and
her poetry.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
English novelist and poet. Hardy was a Victorian realist who as influenced by
Romanticism. He wrote about problems of Victorian society – in particular, declining
rural life. Notable works include: Far from the Madding Cloud (1874), Tess of the
d’Urbevilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895).
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
English conservationist and author of imaginative children’s books, such as Tales of
Peter Rabbit (1902).
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P.G Wodehouse (1881-1975)
English comic writer. Best known for his humorous and satirical stories about the
English upper classes, such as Jeeves and Wooster and Blanding Castle.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
English Modernist writer, a member of the Bloomsbury group. Famous novels
includes Mrs. Dallowey (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928).
D H Lawrence (1885-1930)
English poet, novelist and writer. Best known works include Sons and Lovers, The
Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley’s Love (1928) – which was banned for
many years.
J R R Tolkien (1892-1973)
Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English at Oxford University. Tolkien wrote the best-
selling mythical trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Other works include The Hobbit and
the Silmarillion and a translation of Beowulf.
C.S Lewis (1898-1963)
Irish / English author and professor at Oxford University. Lewis is best known for
The Chronicles of Narnia, a children’s family series. Also known as Christian
apologist.
George Orwell (1903-1950)
English author. Famous works include Animal Farm, 1984. – Both stark warnings
about dangers of totalitarian states, Orwell was also a democratic socialist who
fought in the Spanish Civil War, documenting his experiences in “Homage in
Catalonia” (1938)
Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
English author, best known for his children’s books, such as Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory, James and The Giant Peach and The BFG.
Home (8th Century B.C.)
Considered the greatest of the ancient Greek poets. Homer was the author of the two
epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
Considered the father of English Literature. Best known for Canterbury Tales
(1475).
John Milton (1608-1647)
English poet. Best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank
verse – telling the Biblical story of man’s fall. Also wrote Areopagitica (1644) in
defense of free speech.
William Blake (1757-1827)
English mystic and romantic poet, wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
Also hand-painted many of his works.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Famous English Literature Writers
English romantic poet from Lake District. Many poems related to natures, such as
his Lyrical Ballads.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
English romantic poet. Author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kublai Khan.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
English romantic poet. Famous works include Queen Mab and Prometheus Unbound.
John Keats (1795-1821)
English Romantic Poet, best known for his Odes, such as Ode to the Nightingale,
Endymion.
References and Supplementary Materials
Biography Online; https://www.biographyonline.net/writers.html; April 28, 2020
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