List English writers by kinds and literary forms
List writers of the England, by kinds and literary forms.
This list introduces the English authors who wrote as well in other languages as in English.
English poetry
Anglo-Saxon poetry (650 - 1066)
Of the conquest Norman in Chaucer (1066 - 1350)- John Glover (1330? - 1408
- William Langland (1330? - 1400?)
- Lord Gauvain and the green knight (v. 1360/1370
- Geoffrey Chaucer (v. 1340 - 1400)
the 15th century
- Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 1542)
- Henry Howard, Count de Surrey (1517 - 1547)
- Thomas Sackville (1536 - 1608)
- George Gascoigne (v. 1525 - 1577
- Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- Edmund Spencer (1552 - 1599)
- the poets élisabéthains
- Samuel Daniel (1562 - 1619
- Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
- William Byrd (1542 - 1623)
- erotic poets
- the poets moralists
- Robert Southwell (1561 - 1595
- Joshua Sylvester (1563 - 1648)
- Joseph Hall (1574 - 1656)
- John Marston (1575 - 1634)
- the generation jacobienne
- George Wither (1588 - 1867
- Gilles Fletcher (1588 - 1623
- Phineas Fletcher (1582 - 1650)
- William Browne (1591 - 1643)
- John Gives (1573 - 1631
- Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637
the 17th century
- Thomas Carew (v. 1598 - 1639)
- riding poets
- Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
- the poets Anglicans and catholic
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- Richard Crashaw (1612 - 1649)
- Henry Vaughan (1622 - 1695)
- William Habington (1605 - 1654)
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
- puritan poets
- Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678)
- precursors of traditional the
- Abraham Cowley (1618 - 1667)
- Edmund Waller (1606 - 1687)
- John Denham (1615 - 1669)
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
the 18th century
- traditional poetry
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
- Gay John (1685 - 1732)
- Thomas Parnell (1679 - 1718)
- Ambrose Philips (1675 - 1749)
- the poetry of feeling
- Anne Finck, countess of Winchilsea (1661 - 1720)
- Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748)
- John Dyer (1699 - 1757)
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- William Hakes (1721 - 1759)
- Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771
- William Shenstone (1714 - 1793)
- Mark Akenside (1721 - 1770)
- the preromantism (1770 - 1798)
- Christopher Anstey (1724 - 1805)
- William Mason (1724 - 1797)
- Thomas Percy (1729 - 1811)
- Thomas Adhesive tape (1752 - 1770)
- George Crabbe (1754 - 1832)
- William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
- William Lisle Bowles (1792 - 1850)
- William Blake (1757 - 1827 )
- Erasmus Darwin (1731 - 1802)
- John Wolcot, known as Peter Pindar (1738 - 1819)
- Robert Bloomfield (1766 - 1823)
- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
- Samuel Rogers (1763 - 1855)
- idealistic reaction
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
- John Keble (1792 - 1866
- John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890)
- poetry victorienne
- Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849)
- George Darley (1795 - 1846)
- Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845)
- Ebenezer Elliot (1781 - 1849)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
- William Morris (1834 - 1896)
- Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
- Coventry Patmore (1823 - 1896)
- Elizabeth Barrett (1806 - 1861)
- Philip James Bailey (1816 - 1902)
- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 1861)
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Realism
- the revolt against the mechanism
- George Meredith (1828 - 1909)
- James Thomson (1834 - 1882)
- Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
- the new romanticism
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
- George Moore (1852 - 1933)
- John Davidson (1857 - 1909)
- Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
- Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
- William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
- George William Russel, known as Æ (1867 - 1935)
- Alice Meynell (1850 - 1922)
- doctrines of action
- William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
the 20th century
- Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840 - 1922)
- Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
- Herbert Trench (1843 - 1926)
- Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930)
- Edmund Kid (1849 - 1928)
- Margaret Louise Woods (1856 - 1945)
- Lascelles Abercrombie ( 1881 - 1938)
- Edmund Blanden (1896 -
- Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915)
- Robert Low registers (1895 -
- Walter Of the Pond (1873 - 1956)
- Thomas Sturge Moore (1870 - 1946)
- William Owen (1893 - 1918)
- Herbert Read (1893 - 1968)
- James Reeves (1909 -
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886 -
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- Osbert Sitwell (1892 -
- Sachaverell Sitwell (1897 -
- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 -
- Cecil Day-Lewis (1904 -
- Stephen Spender (1909 -
- Louis Mac Neice (1907 - 1963)
- William Empton (1906 -
- Kathleen Grooves (1908 -
- After 1945
The English theater
Before the Rebirth- John Skelton (v. 1440 - 1529
- John Basle (1495 - 1593)
- John Heywood (v. 1497 - v. 1580
- Nicholas Udall (1506 - 1556)
- William Stevenson (? - v. 1575
- Richard Edwards (v 1522 - 1566)
- George Gascoigne (v. 1525 - 1577
- Thomas Norton (1532 - 1584
- Thomas Sackville (1536 - 1608)
- George Whetstone (v. 1544 - 1582)
the Rebirth
- John Lyly (v. 1554 - 1606)
- George Peele (1558 - 1598)
- Thomas Kyd (1558 - 1594)
- Robert Greene (v. 1560 - 1592)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- George Chapman (v. 1559 - 1634)
- Ben Jonson (v. 1572 - 1637)
- John Marston (v. 1575 - v. 1634)
- Thomas Dekker (v. 1570 - 1632)
- Thomas Heywood (v. 1574 - 1641)
- Thomas Middleton (v. 1580 - 1627)
- William Rowley (1585 - 1642)
- Cyril Turner (v. 1575 - 1626)
- John Webster (v. 1575 - does v. 1625)
- John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
- Philip Massinger (1583 - 1640)
- Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616)
- John Ford (1586 - v. 1639)
- Richard Brominate (? - 1652)
- James Shirley (1596 - 1666)
- Henry Chettle (v. 1560 - v. 1607)
- Barbabe Barnes (v. 1569 - 1609)
- John Day (1574 - v. 1640)
- William Haughton (v. 1575 - 1605)
- Thomas Randilph (1603 - 1635)
- William Davenant (1606 - 1668)
- John Suckling (1609 - 1642)
- Thomas Killigrew (1612 - 1683)
the XVIIe century
- the Restoration
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- George Etherege (v. 1635 - 1691)
- William Wycherley (v. 1640 - 1716)
- Thomas Shadwell (v. 1642 - 1692)
- Thomas Otway (1652 - 1685)
- Nathaniel Lee (v. 1653 - 1692)
- the Transition
- John Vanbrugh ( 1664 - 1726)
- William Congreve (1670 - 1729)
XVIIIe and the XIXe century
- the Classicism
- Nicholas Rowe (1674 - 1718)
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- Collie Cibber (1671 - 1757)
- Richard Steele (1672 - 1729)
- Aaron Hill (1685 - 1750)
- George Lillo (1693 - 1739)
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- Edward Moore (1712 - 1757)
- David Garrick (1717 - 1779)
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
- Charlotte Lennox (1730 - 1804)
- George Colman the Elder (1732 - 1794)
- Richard Cumberland (1732 - 1811)
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
- Thomas Holcroft (1745 - 1809)
- Hannah More (1745 - 1833)
- Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 - 1934)
the XXe century
- Harley Granville Barker (1877 - 1946)
- John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)
- John Hankin (1869 - 1909)
- William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)
- John Millington Synge (1871 - 1909)
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
- John Drinkwater ( 1882 - 1937)
- John Masefield (1878 -
- Stephen Philips (1868 - 1915)
- Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
- John Boynton Priestley (1894 -
- Terence Rattigan (1911 -
- Peter Shaffer (1925 -
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- John Van Druten (1901 - 1957)
- Ronald Duncan (1914 -
- Norman Nicholson (1914 -
- Charles Williams (1886 - 1945)
- Christopher Isherwood (1906 - 1986)
- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 -
- Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- Christopher Fry (1907 -
- after 1945
- John Arden (1930
- Howard Barker (1946
- Samuel Beckett (1906 -
- John Bowen (1924 -
- Brigid Brophy (1929 -
- David Campton (1924 -
- Shelagh Delaney (1939 -
- William Golding (1911 -
- Graham Greene (1904] -
- Anne Jellicoe (1928 -
- Bernard Kops (1928 -
- Dory Lessing (1919 -
- Henry Living rooms (1929 -
- Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894 - 1958)
- John Mortimer (1923 -
- Edna O' Brien (1932 -
- John Osborne (1929 -
- Alum Owenc (1926 -
- Harold Pinter (1930 -
- James Saunders (1925 -
- David Storey (1933 -
- Arnold Wesker (1932 -
- John Withing (1917 - 1963)
- Angus Wilson ( 1913 -
English prosateurs
In XVe century- William Caxton (v. 1422 - 1491)
- Thomas Malory † 1471
- John Bourchier, Lord Berners (1467 - 1533)
- humanistic the
- Thomas Linacre (v. 1460 - 1524)
- William Grocyn (v. 1446 - 1519)
- John Collet (v. 1467 - 1519)
- Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
- Thomas Elyot (v. (1490 - 1546)
- John Cheke (1514 - 1557
- Roger Ascham (1516 - 1568)
- the Reform
- William Tyndale, or Tindale (v. 1492 - 1536)
- Hugh Latimer (v. 1485 - 1555
- John Foxe (1517 - 1587)
- John Lyly (v. 1554 - 1606)
- Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- Robert Greene (v. 1560 - 1592)
- Thomas Lodge (v. 1558 - 1625)
- Thomas Nashe (1567 - (v. 1601)
- Thomas Delonay (v. 1543 - 1600)
- Thomas Dekker (v. 1572 - v. 1632)
- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Robert Burton (1577 - 1640)
- Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- Richard Baxter (1615 - 1691)
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- Thomas Hall (1608 - 1661)
- Isaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- Kenelm Digby (1603 - 1665)
- James Harrington (1611 - 1677)
- William Temple (1628 - 1699)
- Abraham Cowley (1618 - 1667)
- John Evelyn (1620 - 1706)
- Edward Hyde count de Clarendon (1608 - 1674)
- Gilbert Burnet (1643 - 1715)
- Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677)
- John Tillotson (1630 - 1694)
- Robert South (1634 - 1716)
- John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
- Thomas Ellwood (1639 - 1713)
- George Fox (1624 - 1691)
- middle-class literature
- Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- Richard Steele (1672 - 1729)
- the classicism
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- the sentimental novel
- Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)
- Robert Paltock ( 1697 - 1767)
- Sarah Fielding (1710 - 1768)
- Laurence Tern (1713 - 1768)
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
- realism
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- Tobias George Smollett (1721 - 1771)
- the pre-romantic novel
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
- Clara Reeve (1729 - 1807)
- Year Radcliffe (1764 - 1823)
- Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775 - 1818)
- William Godwin (1756 - 1836)
- traditional temperaments
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- Frances d' Arbley, known as Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840)
- the romanticism
- Catherine Grace Frances Gore (1799 - 1861)
- Mary Russell Mitford (1787 - 1855)
- Charles Robert Maturin (1782 - 1824
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
- John Galt (1779 - 1839)
- Theodore Edward Hook (1788 - 1841)
- Frederik Marryat (1792 - 1848)
- James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
- Thomas Coils Peacock (1785 - 1866)
- the social novel
- Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson (1810 - 1866)
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
- John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
- Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
- Anne Brontë (1819 - 1875)
- realism
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
- Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
- Charles Reade (1814 - 1884)
- William Wilkie Hakes (1824 - 1889)
- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, Lord Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Mary Ann Evans, known as George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Idealism and pessimism
- George Meredith (1828 - 1909)
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
- George Robert Gissing (1857 - 1903)
- William Hauls White, known as Mark Rutherford (1831 - 1913)
- Charles Ludwidge Dogson, known as Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
- the neo-romanticism
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
- Alexander William Kinglake (1809 - 1891)
- George Henry Borrow (1803 - 1881)
- Richard Doddrige Blackmore (1825 - 1900)
- Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834 - 1903)
- Lafcadio Hearn (1850 - 1904 )
- Richard Jefferies (1848 - 1887)
- Walter Horatio Lord's Prayer (1839 - 1894)
- William Carleton (1794 - 1869)
- Samuel To coil (1797 - 1868)
- Charles James Rising (1806 - 1872)
- George Moore (1852 - 1933)
- Socialism
- William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922
- William Hurrell Mallock (1849 - 1929)
- Mary Arnold (1851 - 1920)
- Saint-Light Mary Harrison, known as Lucas Mallet (1852 - 1931)
- Sarah Large (1854 - 1943)
- Mrs.Cronwright-Schreiner, known as Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
- Henry To wrinkle Haggard (1856 - 1925)
- Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, known as Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927)
- Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861 - 1923)
- Eden Phillpotts (1862 - 1960)
- Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863 - 1933)
- Arthur Morrison (1863 - 1945)
- May Sinclair (1863 - 1946)
- Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947)
- Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926)
- Léonard Merrick (1864 - 1939)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946)
- Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)
- John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)
- Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953)
- John Cowper Powys (1872 - 1963)
- John Davys Beresford (1873 - 1947)
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Maurice Baring (1874 - 1945)
- William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Theodore Francis Powys (1875 - 1953)
- Alfred Edgar Coppard (1878 - 1957)
- Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970)
- Mary Webb (1881 - 1927)
- Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
- James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
- Ralph Hauls Mottram (1883 - 1971
- Llewelyn Powys (1884 - 1939)
- Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941)
- Francis Brett Young (1884 - 1954)
- Percy Wyndham Lewis (1884 - 1957)
- Frank Swinnerton (1884 - 1982)
- David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Thomas Edward Lawrence (known as “Lawrence of Arabia”) (1888 - 1935)
- Joyce Cary (1888 - 1957)
- Stephen McKenna (1888 - 1967)
- Katherine Mansfield (1889 - 1923 )
- Pink Macaulay (1889 - 1958)
- Agatha Christie or (Mary Westmacott) (1891 - 1976)
- Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892 - 1969)
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
- David Garnett (1892 - 1981)
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- Dorothy Whipple (1893 - 1966)
- Aldous Huxley ( 1894 - 1963)
- John Boynton Priestley (1894 - 1984)
- Leslie Poles Hartley (1895 - 1972)
- Margaret Kennedy (1896 - 1967)
- Cleaves Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Nevil Shute (1899 - 1960)
- Cecil Scott Forester (1899 - 1966)
- Antonia White (1899 - 1980)
- Richard Hughes (1900 - 1976)
- Elizabeth Goudge (1900 - 1984)
- Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900 - 1997)
- Rosamund Lehmann (1901 - 1990)
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- John Beynon Harris, known as John Wyndham (1903 - 1969)
- Christopher Isherwood (1904 - 1986)
- Graham Greene (1904 - 1991)
- Henry Vincent Yorke says Henry Green (1905 - 1973)
- Herbert Ernest Bates (1905 - 1974)
- Charles Percy Snow (1905 - 1980)
- Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
- Rex Warner (1905 - 1986)
- Anthony Powell (1905 - 2000)
- James Hadley Chase (1906 - 1985)
- Nigel Balchin (1908 - 1970)
- Malcolm Lowry (1909 - 1957)
- Nicholas Monsarrat (1910 - 1979)
- William Cooper (1910 -
- William Golding (1911 - 1993)
- Rayner Heppenstall (1911 -
- William Sansom (1912 - 1976)
- Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990)
- Hake MacInnes (1914 - 1976)
- Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
- Monica Dickens (1915 -
- Augus Wilson (1915 -
- Gerald Hanley (1916 -
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
- Arthur Charles Clarke (1917 -
- Percy Howard Newby (1918 -
- Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
- Dory Lessing (1919 -
- Phyllis Dorothy James, known as P.D.James (1920 -
- John Braine (1922 - 1986)
- Kingsley Friends (1922 - 1995)
- Francis King (1923 -
- John Bowen (1924 -
- Desmont Stewart (1924 -
- John Wain (1925 - 1994)
- Christine Brooke-Rose (1926 -
- John Fowles (1926 -
- Thomas Hinde (1926 -
- Robert Shaw (1927 - 1978)
- Alan Sillitoe (1928 -
- Brigid Brophy (1929 -
- Shirley Hazzard (1931 -
- David John Moore Cornwell, known as John Le Carré (1931 -
- Fay Weldon (1931 -
- Hake Wilson (1931 -
- Edna O' Brien (1932 -
- Michael Frayn (1933 -
- David Storey (1933 -
- Andrew Sinclair (1935 -
- Margaret Drabble (1939 -
- Marina Warner (1946 -
- Susan Wicks (1947 -
- Robert Holdstock (1948 -
- Kate Atkinson (1951 -
- Anthony Horowitz (1955 -
- Sleeve-board Winterson (1959 -
- Andrew O' Hagan (1968 -
English historians
- Edward Hyde Clarendon (1609 - 1674)
- Gilbert Burnet (1643 - 1715)
- Tobias George Smollett (1721 - 1771)
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
- William Godwin (1756 - 1836)
- Henry Hallam (1777 - 1859)
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
- James Anthony Froude (1818 - 1894
- Henry Thomas Buckle (1821 - 1862)
- Edward Augustus Freeman (1823 - 1892)
- William Stubbs (1825 - 1901)
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829 - 1902)
- John Richard Green (1837 - 1883)
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838 - 1903)
The criticism of English language
- Thomas Lodge (v. 1557 - 1625)
- Samuel Daniel (v. 1562 - 1619)
- John Refusals (1657 - 1734)
- Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742)
- Bernard Mandeville (1670 - 1733)
- Henry Saint-John (1678 - 1751)
- Joseph Butler (1692 - 1752)
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830
- James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Essay writers, épistoliers and moralists
- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- William Temple (1628 - 1699)
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766 - 1834)
- Thomas de Quincey (1785 - 1859)
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)
- Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
See too
- List of English writers alphabetically
- List of English writers by chronological order
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