English literature, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present
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English literature, literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British Isles; it was during the 15th cent. that the English language acquired much of its modern form. For the literature of previous linguistic periods, see the articles on Anglo-Saxon literature and Middle English literature (see also Anglo-Norman literature ).
For literature written by English speakers elsewhere, see American literature ; Australian literature ; Canadian literature, English ; New Zealand literature ; and South African literature .
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William Blake
Bloomsbury group
James Boswell
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
John Bunyan
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Edmund Burke
Fanny Burney
Robert Burns
Richard Burton
Samuel Butler, 161280, English poet and satirist
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Canadian literature, English
Thomas Carew
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Lewis Carroll
Joyce Cary
Cavalier poets
William Caxton
John Chapman
Thomas Chatterton
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of
Thomas Churchyard
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Collins
Wilkie Collins
comedy
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett
William Congreve
Joseph Conrad
Abraham Cowley
Richard Crashaw
C. Day Lewis
decadents
Daniel Defoe
Thomas Dekker
Walter de la Mare
Thomas De Quincey
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield
John Donne
Hilda Doolittle
Ernest Christopher Dowson
Margaret Drabble
John Dryden
Lawrence Durrell
Maria Edgeworth
George Eliot
T. S. Eliot
William Empson
Friedrich Engels
Sir George Etherege
John Evelyn
farce
George Farquhar
Henry Fielding
John Fletcher
Ford Madox Ford
John Ford, English dramatist
E. M. Forster
John Fowles
John Galsworthy
David Garrick
George Gascoigne
John Gay
George III, king of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Gibbon
George Gissing
William Godwin
Sir William (Gerald) Golding
Oliver Goldsmith
Robert Ranke Graves
Thomas Gray
Robert Greene
Henry Green
Richard Hakluyt
Thomas Hardy
William Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney
George Herbert
Robert Herrick, English poet
Thomas Hobbes
Raphael Holinshed
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A. E. Housman
William Henry Hudson
Richard Hughes
Ted Hughes
David Hume
Leigh Hunt
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
imagists
Irish literary renaissance
Christopher Isherwood
Henry James, American novelist and critic
Lionel Pigot Johnson
Ben Jonson
James Joyce
John Keats
Sir Frank Kermode
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Kyd
Charles Lamb
Walter Savage Landor
D. H. Lawrence
F. R. Leavis
Doris Lessing
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
David Lodge
Thomas Lodge
Richard Lovelace
John Lyly
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron
Hugh MacDiarmid
Louis MacNeice
James Macpherson
Katherine Mansfield
Christopher Marlowe
Andrew Marvell
Karl Marx
John Masefield
Philip Massinger
Charles Robert Maturin
George Meredith
metaphysical poets
Alice (Thompson) Meynell
Middle English literature
Thomas Middleton
John Stuart Mill
John Milton
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Thomas Moore
William Morris
Edwin Muir
Dame Iris Murdoch
Thomas Nashe
John Henry Newman
New Zealand literature
Alfred Noyes
Sean O'Casey
George Orwell
John Osborne
Wilfred Owen
Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th earl of
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Thomas Love Peacock
Samuel Pepys
Harold Pinter
Alexander Pope
Anthony Powell
Pre-Raphaelites
Samuel Purchas
Ann (Ward) Radcliffe
Sir Walter Raleigh
Dorothy M. Richardson
Samuel Richardson
Sir Herbert Read
Restoration, in English history
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romanticism
Isaac Rosenberg
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Jean Jacques Rousseau
John Ruskin
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Siegfried Sassoon
Sir Walter Scott
Scriblerus Club
Thomas Shadwell
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sir Philip Sidney
Sitwell
Tobias George Smollett
C. P. Snow
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Dame Muriel Spark
Sir Stephen Spender
Edmund Spenser
Sir Richard Steele
Laurence Sterne
South African literature
Robert Southey
Tom Stoppard
David Storey
John Stow
Lytton Strachey
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir John Suckling
Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of
Jonathan Swift
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Arthur Symons
John Millington Synge
Jeremy Taylor
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
Francis Thompson
James Thomson, 17001748, Scottish poet
Dylan Thomas
Cyril Tourneur
Thomas Traherne
Anthony Trollope
Nicholas Udall
Sir John Vanbrugh
Henry Vaughan
Walpole, Horace, 4th earl of Orford
Izaak Walton
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
John Webster
H. G. Wells
Arnold Wesker
Oscar Wilde
Mary Wollstonecraft
Virginia (Stephen) Woolf
William Wordsworth
Sir Thomas Wyatt, 150342, English poet and statesman
William Wycherley
W. B. Yeats
Edward Young