History of English Literature

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History of English Literature.

English Authors in Chronological Order.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342/43 – 1400)
Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593)
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
James I King of England (1566 – 1625)
John Milton (1608 – 1674)
John Dryden (1631 – 1700)
Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731)
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754)
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730 – 1774)
Fanny Burney (1752 – 1840)
William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)
Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822)
John Keats (1795 – 1821)
Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
Mary Shelley (1797 – 1817)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863)
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)
Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882)
Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855)
Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848)
George Eliot Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (1819 – 1880)
Anne Brontë (1820 – 1849)
Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1895)
Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924)
Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907
H.G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866 – 1946)
John Galsworthy (1867 – 1933) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932
Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950
Ford Madox Ford (1873 – 1939)
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953
William Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965)
E.M. Forster (1879 – 1970)
Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881 – 1975)
Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941)
D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)
T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1948
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973)
Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Robert Graves (1895 – 1985)
George Orwell ( 1903 – 1950)
Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 1966)
Graham Greene (1904 – 1991)
Richard Llewellyn (1906 – 1983)
Sir William Golding (1911 – 1993) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983
Lawrence Durrell (1912 – 1990)
Patrick White (1912 – 1990) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1973
Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953)
Denton Welch (1915 – 1948)
Anthony Burgess (1917 – 1993)
Dame Iris Murdoch (1919)
Doris Lessing (1919)
Philip Larkin (1922 – 1985)
Sir Kingsley Amis (1922 – 1995)
Tom Sharpe (1928)
Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998)
J.G. Ballard (1930)
Harold Pinter (1930)
John Le Carre (1931)
Sir V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul (1932) Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001
Salman Rushdie (1947)
Ian McEwan (1948)
Martin Amis (1949)

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