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Major English Writers
- Addison, Joseph
- Ainsworth, William Harrison
- Brooke, Stopford
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chapman, George
- Defoe, Daniel
- De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859)
- Dodsley, Robert (1704-1764)
- Dowson, John (historian)
- Gower, John
- Hall, Joseph (1574-1656) (bishop)
- Houseman, A.E.
- Jonson, Benjamin (1572-1637)
- Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
- Marvell, Andrew
- Milton, John
- Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703)
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
- Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
- Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
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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