John Donne1572-1631

• British poet and priset• Famous for his metaphysics writing• Famous work: A Valediction. Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnets,Anniversaries • A secret marriage• Converted from Catholicism

John Milton1608 - 1674 ┼

Poet and hymn writer

Paradise Lost - 1667

Lycidas - 1638

Became blind 1652

Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)

A master of satire

Famous books- Gulliver's travels - A modest proposal- A journal to stella

Published anonymously

Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

• Essayist, poet, critic and satirist

• An essay on criticism, Essay on man and The temple of fame

•Third most frequently quoted writer and the greatest poet of the 18th century

• Scottish poet

• Halloween, The holy fair

• ”Burns’s Night”, January every year

Robert Burns1759-1796

Sir Walter Scott(1771-1832)

•Wrote novels and poetry

•Wrote Ivanhoe

•Born in Scottland

Jane Austen1775-1817

•She wrote romantic novels.•Pride and prejudice. Sense and Sensibility.•She did not use her name when she published her works.

John Keats(1795-1821)

• John Keats wrote poems

• Bright Star, La belle dame sans merci

• He is one of the most famous poet during the Romanticism

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley1797-1851

• She wrote short stories and novels

• Frankenstein • The Last Man

• She died in London from a brain tumor at age 53. She was buried between her mother and father.

Edgar Allan Poe1809-1849

Famous for his short horror storiesOne of the fathers of the science fiction genreHe wrote during the Romanticism

Famous worksThe black catThe ravenThe murders in Rue Morgue

Interesting Facts It’s said that he was a gambler and that it led to alcoholism

Charles Dickens1812-1870

• English novelistThe greatest during the victorian eraEmphasized injustice, social evilComical inputs

• Famous work:Oliver TwistDavid CopperfieldThe Pickwick Papers

• Interesting facts:Chapters published in periodicalsSubscribers died due to addictionChanged orphanages in London

Charlotte Brontë1816-1855

- Charlotte Brontë wrote novels under her false name ”Currer Bell”

- Her most famous novel is called ”Jane Eyre”

- The professor wasen’t approved by the publishier

- In her novel ”Shirley” she revealed that she was a woman

Emily Brontë 1818-1848

• Wrote poems and novels• Wuthering Heights, A Death-Scene,

Walterclough Hall• She had 2 sisters which wrote

stories.• She died 30 years old• She is also noted for her remarkable

force of character

Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman1819-18921819-1892

• American poet, He wrote poems

• Famous work: -

•Leaves of Grass (collection of poems) Beat! Beat! Drums! O Captain! My Captain!

• Interesting facts: -Death and sexuality.

-America’s Shakespeare

-Drunk while he wrote a novel

Emily Dickinson• Born 1830 in Amherst• American poet• Wrote 1700 poems• Died in Nefrit 1886 in Amherst• She wrote short and impure novels, and the

local publishers was afraid to publish her poems. Her sister published them after her death, against her will. She wanted her sister to burn them when she died.

• Her most famous poem is "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?”

Lewis Caroll(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

1832-1898

•His works are sometimes called literary

nonsense. Means they use sensical, nonsensical

elements to defy language conversations or logical

reasoning.

• Alice’s adventure in wonderland (1865)

• Through the Looking-Glass (1871)

• Accused of pedophilia

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Robert Louis Stevenson1850-1894

•Essayist, Novelist, Poet and travel writer.

•Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Treasure Island.

•One of the 30 most translated authors.

Oscar WildeOscar Wilde1854-19001854-1900

• British/Irish playwright

• Famous plays

- The Picture of Dorian Gray

- The Decay of Lying

- The Importance of Being Earnest

• Got thrown into prison

Rudyard Kipling1865 - 1936

• Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet and writer.

• The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous and Kim.

• Kipling recieved the Nobel Price for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, India where he got the influence to write The Jungle Book.

James Joyce

Irish Novelist & Poet

Born 1882 Dead 1941

Most famous Work Ulysses

His life & Work is celibrated 16 June in Dublin every year

Virginia Woolf1882-1941

• An experimental author • The Voyage Out , Jacob's Room ,Mrs Dalloway • Mental illness and suicide to an Oscar movie , Bloomsburygroup,

Agatha Christie1890-1976

• She wrote crimefiction novels.

• Famous works:– And then there were none– Evil under sun– Murder on the orient

express.• She is the only crime writer to

have created 2 equally famous and much loved characters - Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Ernest Hemingway ( 1899-1961)

• He wrote novels & Short stories• The sun also rises, A farewell to

arms & The old man and the sea• He won the Nobel prize 1954,

The Iceberg theory, Influence from the War

John Steinbeck1902-1968

•American author - wrote novels and plays - realistic and naturalistic

- The Grapes of Wrath- East of Eden

• Famous work:

- Of Mice and Men

• Nobel prize in literature, 1962.

• Pulitzer prize - The Grapes of Wrath

•The National Steinbeck Center

George Orwell 1903-1950

• Novel writer • Partially schizophrenic • Real name Erik Blair

Famous work• Animal Farm• Nineteen Eighty-Four

Interesting Facts

With “1984” he laid the foundation to our reality-show “Big Brother”

Samuel Beckett1906 - 1989

• Irish Writer/Dramatist

• Waiting for Godot , Fin de partie and Happy days

• Other facts.

-Nobel prize 1969

-Absurd plays

William Golding(1911-1993)

• He wrote novels and poets• His most famous works are Lord of the flies and Rites of

Passage• He got the nobel prize for Literature in 1983• He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in

1980