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Major English Writers

8th Century

    ; Charms
    ; Gnomic Verses
    ; Riddles
    ; The Finnsburh Fragment (ca. 725)
    ; Beowulf (ca. 750)
    ; C[ae]dmon's hymn (ca. 750)
    ; The Waldere Fragments (ca. 770)
    ; Cynewulf (fl. 790)
    

9th Century

    ; Widsith
    ; Genesis A
    ; Exodus
    ; Daniel
    ; Christ and Satan
    ; Guthlac A
    ; Guthlac B
    ; Christ I
    ; Christ III
    ; The Phoenix
    ; Dream of the Rood
    ; Physiologus
    ; Deor
    ; Wulf and Eadwacer
    ; The Seafarer (ca. 850)
    ; The Wanderer
    ; The Wife's Lament
    ; The Husband's Message
    ; An Exile's Prayer
    ; The Rhyming Poem
    ; The Ruin
    ; Andreas (870/900)
    ; King Alfred's Translations (890/899)
    ; The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (after 891)
    

10th Century

    ; Genesis B (900/25)
    ; Judith (900/25)
    ; The Battle of Brunanburh (after 937)
    ; Blickling Homilies (ca. 970)
    ; Vercelli Homilies (975/1000)
    ; Ælfric Grammaticus (ca. 955-ca. 1010)
    ; The Battle of Maldon (ca. 995)
    

11th Century

    ; Wulfstan (ca. 960-1023)
    ; Apollonius de Tyre (ca. 1050)
    

12th Century

    ; Poema morale (ca. 1170)
    ; Or(r)mulum (ca. 1190)
    

13th Century

    ; Layamon's Brut (ca. 1205)
    ; The Owl and the Nightingale (ca. 1210)
    ; Ancrene Riwle (ca. 1220)
    ; John of Guildford (fl. 1225)
    ; King Horn (ca. 1250)
    ; Floris and Blancheflor (ca. 1250)
    ; It was upon a Shere Thorsday (ca. 1250)
    ; Levedy, ich thanke thee ( ca. 1260)
    ; Trush and Nightingale (ca. 1275)
    ; Fox and Wolf (ca. 1275)
    ; Dame Sirith (ca. 1275)
    ; South English Legendary (ca. 1280)
    ; Havelok the Dane (1280/1300)
    ; Arthour and Merlin (ca. 1290)
    ; Amis and Amiloun (ca. 1290)
    ; Land of Cokaygne (ca. 1290)
    ; I sike al when I singe (ca. 1290)
    

14th Century

    ; Cursor Mundi (ca. 1300)
    ; Sir Perceval of Galles (ca. 1300)
    ; Ywain and Gawain (ca. 1300)
    ; Libeaus Desconus (ca. 1300/40)
    ; Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne (ca. 1303)
    ; Richard Rolle of Hampole (1295?-1349)
    ; Sir Tristrem (ca. 1330)
    ; Sir Degare (ca. 1330)
    ; King Alisaunder (ca. 1330)
    ; Sir Orfeo (ca. 1330)
    ; Dan Michel of Northgate (ca. 1340)
    ; Cloud of Unknowing (ca. 1350)
    ; William of Palerne (ca. 1350)
    ; Statute of labourers (1351)
    ; Winner and Waster (1352/53)
    ; Pricke of Conscience (ca. 1360)
    ; John Wycliff (1329?-84)
    
  • Gower, John (1330?-1408)
    ; William Langland (1332?-1400?)
    ; Gawain Poet (fl. 1370)
    
  • Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
    ; Walter Hilton (1340?-96)
    ; John Barbour (fl. 1375)
    ; Northern Homily Cycle (ca. 1375)
    ; York Cycle (1376)
    ; The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (ca. 1380)
    ; Sir Thomas Clanvowe (fl. 1385)
    ; Thomas Usk (fl. 1385)
    ; The Parliament of the Three Ages (ca. 1390)
    ; St. Erkenwald (ca. 1390)
    ; Statute of praemunire (1393)
    ; Pierce the Ploughman's Crede (ca. 1395)
    

15th Century

    ; King James I (1394-1437)
    ; Thomas Malory (1394?-1471)
    ; The Wakefield Master (ca. 1400-ca. 1450)
    ; William Caxton (1422?-91)
    
  • Dunbar, William (c1460-c1530)

16th Century

    ; Ascham, Roger (1515?-68)
    ; Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
    ; Campion, Thomas (1568-1639)
    ; Cheke, John (1514-57)
    ; Cranmer, Thomas (1489-1556)
    ; Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)
    
  • Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)
    ; Elizabeth, Queen I (1533-1603)
    ; Elyot, Thomas (1490-1546)
    ; Foxe, John (1516-1587)
    
  • Greene, Robert (1558-92)
  • Howard, Henry (1517-1547) - Surrey
    ; Howard, Henry (1517?-47)
    ; Kyd, Thomas (1558-94)
    ; Lodge, Thomas (1558-1625)
    
  • Lyly, John (1554?-1606)
  • Marlowe, Christopher (1564-93)
  • More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535)
  • Nash, Thomas (1567-1601)
    ; Norton, Thomas (1532-84)
    
  • Peele, George (1556-96)
    ; Puttenham, George (1529?-90)
    ; Raleigh, Walter (1552?-1618)
    ; Sackville, Thomas (1536-1608)
    
  • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    ; Sidney, Philip (1554-86)
    ; Skelton, John (1460?-1529)
    ; Southwell, Robert (1561?-95)
    ; Spenser, Edmund (1552?-99)
    ; Tyndale, William (1494?-1536)
    ; Udall, Nicholas (1505-56);
    ; Wilson, Thomas (1525?-81)
    ; Wyatt, Thomas (1503?-42)
    

17th Century

  • Aubrey, John (1626-1697)
    ; Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)
    ; Browne, Thomas (1605-1682)
    ; Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
    ; Burton, Robert (1577-1640)
    ; Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)
    ; Cavendish, Mary (1623-1673)
    ; Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)
    ; Crashaw, Richard (1613?-1649)
    ; Dangerfield, Thomas (1650?-1685)
    ; Dekker, Thomas (1570?-1632)
    ; Denham, John (1615-1669)
    ; Donne, John (1572-1631)
    ; Dryden, John (1631-1700)
    ; Evelyn, John (1620-1706)
    ; Harrington, James (1611-1677)
    ; Herbert, George (1593-1633)
    ; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674)
    ; Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
    ; Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637)
    ; Locke, John (1632-1704)
    ; Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657)
    
  • Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
  • Milton, John (1608-1674)
    ; Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)
    ; Penn, William (1644-1718)
    ; Suckling, John (1609-1642)
    ; Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)
    ; Traherne, Thomas (1637-1674)
    ; Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695)
    ; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
    ; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)
    ; Wilkins, John (1614-1672)
    
  • Wood, Anthony (1814-1887)
    ; Wroth, Mary (1587?-1651/53)
    
; Bill of Rights (1689)
; Statute of Apprentices and Labourers (1563)

18th Century

    ; Act of Settlement (1701)
    ; Copyright Act (1709)
    ; Septennial Act (1716)
    
  • Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
    ; Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
    ; Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)
    ; Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
    ; Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
    ; Richard Steele (1672-1729)
    
  • Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)
    ; Edward Young (1683-1765)
    ; John Gay (1685-1732)
    ; Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
    ; Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
    ; Thomas Bluett (ca. 1690-1749)
    ; George Lillo (1693?-1739)
    ; Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756)
    ; Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
    ; James Thomson (1700-1748)
    ; John Wesley (1703-1791)
    ; Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
    ; Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
    ; Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
    ; David Hume (1711-1776)
    ; Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
    
  • Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
    ; David Garrick (1717-1779)
    ; Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
    ; William Collins (1721-1759)
    ; Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)
    ; Adam Smith (1723-1790)
    ; Thomas Percy (1728-1811)
    ; Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
    ; Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)
    
  • William Cowper (1731-1800)
    ; George Coleman (1732-1794)
    ; James Macpherson (1736-1796)
    ; Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
    ; Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
    ; James Boswell (1740-1795)
    ; Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
    
  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
    ; Thomas Chatterton (1752-1800)
    ; Frances (Fanny) Burney (1752-1840)
    ; George Crabbe (1754-1832)
    ; William Godwin (1756-1836)
    ; William Blake (1757-1827)
    ; Robert Burns (1759-1796)
    ; Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
    ; Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
    

19th Century

    ; Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
    ; James Hogg (1770-1835)
    ; William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
    ; Walter Scott (1771-1832)
    ; Robert Owen (1771-1858)
    ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
    ; Jane Austen (1775-1817)
    ; Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818)
    ; Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
    ; Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
    ; Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
    
  • De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859)
  • Douglas, Alfred (1870-1945)
  • Hichens, Robert Smythe (1864-1950)
    ; George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
    ; James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
    ; Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
    ; John Keats (1795-1821)
    
  • Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
    ; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
    
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
    ; Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857)
    ; Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
    ; Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
    ; Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
    ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
    ; John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
    ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
    ; Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    ; Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)
    ; Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
    ; Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
    ; William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
    ; Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
    ; Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
    ; Robert Browning (1812-1889)
    ; Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
    ; Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
    ; Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
    ; Tom Taylor (1817-1880)
    ; Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
    ; George Eliot (1819-1880)
    ; Herman Melville (1819-1891)
    ; John Ruskin (1819-1900)
    ; Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
    ; Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
    ; Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
    
     
  • Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
  • ; Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) ; George Meredith (1828-1909) ; Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) ; Christina Georgima Rossetti (1830-1894) ; Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) ; William Morris (1834-1896) ; Mark Twain (1835-1910) ; Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) ; Walter Pater (1839-1894) ; Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) ; Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) ; Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) ; William James (1842-1910) ; Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) ; Henry James (1843-1916) ; Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) ; Bram Abraham Stoker (1847-1912)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
    ; Edward Bellamy (1850-1898)
    ; Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
    ; George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
    ; Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
    ; Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
    

20th Century

    ; Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
    ; Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
    ; William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
    ; Herbert George Wells (1866-1946)
    ; John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
    ; John Millington Synge (1871-1909)
    ; Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
    ; Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
    ; Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
    ; Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
    ; Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)
    ; William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
    ; Jack London (1876-1916)
    ; Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
    ; Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
    ; James Joyce (1882-1941)
    ; Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
    ; David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
    ; Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
    ; Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
    ; Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
    ; Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
    ; Henry Miller (1891-1980)
    ; Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
    ; F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
    ; John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
    ; William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    ; Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
    ; Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
    ; Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
    ; Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
    ; Ernest Ising (1900-1998)
    ; John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
    ; George Orwell (1903-1950)
    ; Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
    
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