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SIGNIFICANT WRITERS IN ENGLISHLITERATURE

( A LITERARY MAP )

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Geoffrey Chaucer Thomas MoreEdmund Spencer Walter RaleighJohn Donne Francis BaconThomas Middleton John MiltonAlexander Pope William WordsworthSamuel Coleridge George Bayron

Charles Dickens

Christopher Marlow

William Shakespeare

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Ben Jonson

D.H Lawrence

T.S Eliot

John Ford

George Bernard ShawJonathan Swift

1200-1500:Middle English

Period

. Geoffrey Chaucer(Poet)

Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English

poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

Born: 1343, London, United Kingdom

Died: October 25, 1400, London, United Kingdom

Spouse: Philippa Roet (m. 1366–1387)

Buried: Westminster Abbey, City of Westminster, United Kingdom

Plays: The Canterbury Tales

1500-1660:

The English Renaissance 1500-1558: Tudor Period

(Humanist Era)  

SIR THOMAS MOre ( Saint )

Sir Thomas More, known to Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social

philosopher, author, and statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. 

Born: February 7, 1478, City of London, United Kingdom

Died: July 6, 1535, Tower Hill, London, United Kingdom

Education: University of Oxford

Spouse: Jane Colt (m. 1505–1511)

Children: Margaret Roper, Elizabeth More, John More

THoMAS WYATT( Poet )

Sir Thomas Wyatt was a 16th-century English ambassador and lyrical poet. He is credited with

introducing the sonnet into English. He was born at Allington Castle, near Maidstone in Kent, though his

family was originally from Yorkshire. 

Born: 1503, Kent, United Kingdom

Died: October 11, 1542, London, United Kingdom

Spouse: Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt

Parents: Henry Wyatt

Children: Thomas Wyatt the Younger

Books: Tottel's Miscellany, poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt

The Renaissance Period consists of four subsets:

1. 1558-1603: The Elizabethan Age (High Renaissance):

WILLIAM Shakespeare

Poet

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in

the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and

the "Bard of Avon". 

Born: Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Died: April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Spouse: Anne Hathaway (m. 1582–1616)

Books: Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, more

Movies: 10 Things I Hate About You, Romeo + Juliet, Coriolanus

CHRISTOPHER MArLOWE

( Dramatist )

Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the

foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. 

Born: 1564, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Died: May 30, 1593, Deptford, United Kingdom

Full name: Christopher Marlowe

Education: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, The King's School, Canterbury, University of Cambridge

Books: Hero and Leander, Doctor Faustus, 

Geoffrey Chaucer( Poet )

Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical

allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. 

Born: 1552, London, United Kingdom

Died: January 13, 1599, London, United Kingdom

Education: University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, Cambridge,Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood

SIR WALTER RALEIGH( Writer )

Sir Walter Raleigh was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is

also well known for popularising tobacco in England. 

Born: January 22, 1552, Devon, United Kingdom

Died: October 29, 1618, London, United Kingdom

Full name: Walter Raleigh

Spouse: Elizabeth Raleigh (m. 1591–1618)

Siblings: Humphrey Gilbert, Carew Raleigh, Adrian Gilbert, John Gilbert

Children: Carew Raleigh, Damerei Raleigh, Walter Raleigh

BEN JONSON( Playwright )

Ben Jonson was a playwright, poet, and literary critic of the seventeenth century, whose artistry

exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularized the comedy of

humours. 

Born: June 11, 1572, Westminster, United Kingdom

Died: August 6, 1637, Westminster, United Kingdom

Spouse: Ann Lewis Jonson (m. 1594)

Education: Westminster School

Books: Ben Jonson. Poems,

2. 1603-1625:

The Jacobean Age {Mannerist Style (1590-1640) other

styles: Metaphysical Poets; Devotional Poets}

JOHN DONNE( Poet )

John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England. He is

considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. 

Born: January 22, 1572, London, United Kingdom

Died: March 31, 1631, London, United Kingdom

Education: University of Cambridge, Hertford College, Oxford, University of Oxford

SIR FRANCIS BACON( Former Lord Chancellor )

Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, Kt., QC was an English philosopher, statesman,

scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor

of England.

Born: January 22, 1561, Strand, London, United Kingdom

Died: April 9, 1626, Highgate, United Kingdom

Nationality: English

Spouse: Alice Barnham (m. 1606–1625)

Education: Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Poitiers, University of Cambridge

Thomas Middleton

Thomas middletonPlaywright

Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher

and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during

the Jacobean period. 

Born: April 18, 1580, London, United Kingdom

Died: 1627, Newington Butts, United Kingdom

Education: The Queen's College, Oxford

Movies: Revengers Tragedy, The Changeling

Books: Hengist, King of Kent, or the Mayor of Queenborough,

3.1625-1649:The Caroline Age

JOHN MIltonPoet

John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of

England under Oliver Cromwell.

Born: December 9, 1608, Cheapside, United Kingdom

Died: November 8, 1674, Chalfont St Giles, United Kingdom

Full name: John Milton

Plays: Samson Agonistes, Comus, Arcades

Education: Christ's College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, St Paul's School, London

JOHN FORDFilm Director

John Ford was an Irish-American film director. He was famous for both his Westerns such as Stagecoach, The

Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as

The Grapes of Wrath. 

Born: February 1, 1894, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, United States

Died: August 31, 1973, Palm Desert, California, United States

Spouse: Mary Ford (m. 1920–1973)

Awards: Academy Award for Best Director, more

Books: The Searchers, Stagecoach

4. 1649-1660:

The Commonwealth Period

(which is also known as the Puritan & The

Protectorate (Baroque Style, and later, Rococo

Style) 

Alexander popePoet

Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and

for his translation of Homer. 

Born: May 21, 1688, London, United Kingdom

Died: May 30, 1744, Twickenham, United Kingdom

Height: 1.37 m

Education: Twyford School

Libretti: Acis and Galatea

Jonathan swiftPamphleteer

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric

who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

Born: November 30, 1667, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Died: October 19, 1745, Ireland

Spouse: Esther Johnson (m. 1716)

Education: Hertford College, Oxford (1694), University of Dublin, Trinity College,

Dublin, University of Oxford

Parents: Jonathan Swift, Abigail Erick

 1785-1870:Romanticism

William wordsworthPoet

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped

to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. 

Born: April 7, 1770, Wordsworth House, United Kingdom

Died: April 23, 1850, Cumberland, United Kingdom

Nationality: English

Siblings: Dorothy Wordsworth, Christopher Wordsworth

Education: Hawkshead Grammar School, University of Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge

Samuel taylor coleridgePoet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend

William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake

Poets.

Born: October 21, 1772, Ottery St Mary, United Kingdom

Died: July 25, 1834, Highgate, United Kingdom

Movies: Christabel, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Children: Sara Coleridge, Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge

Education: University of Cambridge, Christ's Hospital, Jesus College, Cambridge

George Gordon byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly

known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. 

Born: January 22, 1788, London Borough of Harrow, London, United Kingdom

Died: April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece

Full name: George Gordon Byron

Spouse: Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron (m. 1815)

Movies: Don Juan DeMarco, Gothic

1870-1914:Victorian Period

Charles dickens Writer

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most

memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.

Born: February 7, 1812, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Died: June 9, 1870, Gads Hill Place, Rochester, United Kingdom

Spouse: Catherine Dickens (m. 1836–1858)

Plays: A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, The Frozen Deep, No Thoroughfare, The Goblins

Children: Kate Perugini, Edward Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jr,

Robert browningPoet

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse,

especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. 

Born: May 7, 1812, Camberwell, United Kingdom

Died: December 12, 1889, Venice, Italy

Spouse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (m. 1846–1861)

Plays: The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Pippa passes

Education: University College London, University of London

1914-1945:Modern Period:

George Bernard shawPlaywright

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.

Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many ... 

Born: July 26, 1856, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Died: November 2, 1950, Ayot St Lawrence, United Kingdom

Spouse: Charlotte Payne-Townshend (m. 1898–1943)

Books: The Black Girl in Search of God, The Irrational Knot, more

Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, 

William butler yeatsPoet

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A

pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator

for two terms. 

Born: June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Republic of Ireland

Died: January 28, 1939, Menton, France

Plays: The Countess Cathleen, Cathleen ni Houlihan, Purgatory, Mosada,At the Hawk's Well, Diarmuid and

Grania

Siblings: Jack Butler Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Yeats

Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature

D.H lawrenceNovelist

David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who

published as D. H. Lawrence.

Born: September 11, 1885, Eastwood, United Kingdom

Died: March 2, 1930, Vence, France

Spouse: Frieda von Richthofen (m. 1914–1930)

Movies: Lady Chatterley, Women in Love, The Fox, more

Parents: Lydia Lawrence, Arthur John Lawrence

T.s eliotPlaywright

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the

twentieth century's major poets." 

Born: September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Died: January 4, 1965, London, United Kingdom

Books: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Four Quartets, more

Nominations: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics

Movies: Cats, The Waste Land