Great Authors.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Sir Thomas Malory

Edmund Spenser

William Shakespeare

Francis Bacon

Christopher Marlowe

John Donne

John Milton

John Dryden

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

Samuel Richardson

Henry Fielding

Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jane Austen

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Keats

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Charles Dickens

John Ruskin

George Eliot

William Butler Yeats

James Joyce

William Dunbar

John Skelton

Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Sir Philip Sidney

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke

Sir Walter Ralegh

Michael Drayton

Samuel Daniel

Thomas Nashe

Thomas Kyd

Thomas Campion

Ben Jonson

Robert Burton

Sir Thomas Browne

Thomas Hobbes

Robert Herrick

Thomas Carew

Richard Lovelace

Andrew Marvell

George Herbert

Thomas Traherne

Henry Vaughan

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Richard Crashaw

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

George Chapman

John Ford

John Marston

John Webster

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

Cyril Tourneur

Philip Massinger

John Bunyan

Izaak Walton

John Aubrey

Jeremy Taylor

Samuel Butler

Thomas Otway

William Congreve

Sir George Etherege

John Gay

Edward Gibbon

Edmund Burke

Maurice Morgann

William Collins

Thomas Gray

George Farquhar

William Wycherley

Christopher Smart

Oliver Goldsmith

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

William Cowper

George Crabbe

Daniel Defoe

Tobias Smollett

Laurence Sterne

Fanny Burney

Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

Robert Burns

Sir Walter Scott

Dorothy Wordsworth

William Hazlitt

Lord Byron

Walter Savage Landor

Thomas De Quincey

Charles Lamb

Maria Edgeworth

John Galt

Elizabeth Gaskell

James Hogg

Charles Maturin

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

John Clare

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

George Darley

Thomas Hood

Thomas Wade

Robert Browning

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Arthur Hugh Clough

Matthew Arnold

Christina Rossetti

Thomas Love Peacock

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Thomas Carlyle

Walter Pater

Edward FitzGerald

John Stuart Mill

John Henry Newman

Anthony Trollope

Lewis Carroll

Edward Lear

George Gissing

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Charlotte Brontë

Emily Brontë

William Makepeace Thackeray

George Meredith

Francis Thompson

Lionel Johnson

Robert Bridges

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Samuel Butler

W. S. Gilbert

Wilkie Collins

Coventry Patmore

James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis)

Oscar Wilde

John Davidson

Ernest Dowson

Robert Louis Stevenson

William Morris

Bram Stoker

George Macdonald

George Bernard Shaw

John Millington Synge

Sean O’Casey

George Douglas Brown

Thomas Hardy

Rudyard Kipling

A. E. Housman

Max Beerbohm

Joseph Conrad

Ronald Firbank

Ford Madox Ford

W. Somerset Maugham

John Cowper Powys

Saki (H. H. Munro)

H. G. Wells

David Lindsay

Arnold Bennett

Walter De la Mare

Wilfred Owen

Isaac Rosenberg

Edward Thomas

Robert Graves

Edwin Muir

David Jones

John Galsworthy

E. M. Forster

Frank O’Connor

D. H. Lawrence

Virginia Woolf

Samuel Beckett

Elizabeth Bowen

J. G. Farrell

Henry Green

Evelyn Waugh

Anthony Burgess

G. B. Edwards

Iris Murdoch

Graham Greene

Christopher Isherwood

Norman Douglas

Aldous Huxley

Lawrence Durrell

William Golding

Doris Lessing

Mervyn Peake

Jeanette Winterson

W. H. Auden

Roy Fuller

Gavin Ewart

Basil Bunting

William Empson

George Wilson Knight

R. S. Thomas

Frank Kermode

Stevie Smith

F. T. Prince

Philip Larkin

Donald Davie

Geoffrey Hill

Jonathan Spence

Elizabeth Jennings

Keith Douglas

Hugh MacDiarmid

Louis MacNeice

Dylan Thomas

Nigel Dennis

Seamus Heaney

Thomas Kinsella

Paul Muldoon

John Montague

John Arden

Joe Orton

Flann O’Brien

Tom Stoppard

Harold Pinter

Edward Bond

George Orwell

Edna O’Brien