| Addison, Joseph |
journalist |
Eighteenth
Century |
| Arnold, Matthew |
poet |
Victorian |
| Auden, A.H. |
poet |
Contemporary |
| Austen, Jane |
novelist, satirist |
Nineteenth
Century |
| Barrett Browning, Elizabeth |
poet |
Victorian |
| Blake, William |
poet, artist, mystic |
Eighteenth
Century |
| Boswell, James |
biographer |
Eighteenth
Century |
| Browning, Robert |
poet |
Victorian |
| Byron, Lord (George Gordon) |
Romantic poet |
Nineteenth
Century |
Carroll, Lewis(Charles Dodgson) |
novelist |
Contemporary |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey |
poet, Father of English Literature |
Medieval |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor |
Romantic poet |
Nineteenth |
| Dickens, Charles |
novelist |
Victorian |
| Donne, John |
Metaphysical poet, prose writer |
Seventeenth
Century |
| Eliot, Thomas Sternes |
poet |
Contemporary |
| Heaney, Seamus |
poet |
Contemporary |
| Hughes, Ted |
poet |
Contemporary |
| Goldsmith, William |
playwright, novelist, satirist |
Eighteenth
Century |
| Gray, Thomas |
poet |
Eighteenth
Century |
| Hardy, Thomas |
novelist, poet, Naturalist |
Victorian |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley |
poet |
Victorian |
| Housman, A.E. |
poet, Latin scholar |
Victorian |
| Jonson, Ben |
Cavalier poet |
Seventeenth
Century |
| Johnson, Samuel |
lexicographer |
Seventeenth
Century |
| Lovelace, Richard |
Cavalier poet |
Eighteenth
Century |
| Marlowe, Christopher |
playwright |
Elizabethan Age |
| Marvell, Andrew |
Metaphysical poet |
Seventeenth
Century |
| Milton, John |
Puritan poet |
Seventeenth
Century |
| Pepys, Samuel |
diarist |
Seventeenth
Century |
| Pope, Alexander |
poet, satirist |
Eighteenth
Century |
| Rossetti, Christina |
poet |
Victorian |
| Shakespeare, William |
playwright, poet |
Elizabethan Age |
| Shelley, Mary |
Romantic novelist |
Nineteenth
Century |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe |
Romantic poet |
Nineteenth
Century |
| Spenser, Edmund |
poet |
Elizabethan
Age |
| Steele, Richard |
journalist |
Eighteenth
Century |
| Suckling, Sir John |
Cavalier poet |
Seventeenth
Century |
| Swift, Jonathan |
Essayist, novelist |
Eighteenth
Century |
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred |
poet |
Victorian |
| Thomas, Dylan |
poet |
Contemporary |
| Wilde, Oscar |
playwright, novelist |
Victorian |
| Wollstonecraft, Mary |
feminist essayist |
Nineteenth
Century |
| Woolf, Virginia |
novelist |
Contemporary |
| Yeats, William Butler |
poet |
Contemporary |
| Wordsworth, William |
Romantic poet |
Nineteenth
Century |