2. John Donne John was born in the year 1572 and past away in 1631. Poet John is famous for his religious poems & Sermons that he wrote mostly for funerals and such. ”No man is an island”

3. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) British writer during the enlightenment Wrote more than 500 books Robinson Crusoe One of the earliest proponents of the novel

4. Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 Satirical writer “A Tale of a Tub”, “Gulliver’s Travels”, “Journal to Stella” Dean in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral

5. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) (1688-1744 London, England Poet, Iliad and Odyssey. (Iliaden & Odysseen) Pott's diseases (tuberkulos)

6. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850  England, Cockermouth Poet of: Lyrical Ballads, Poems in two volumes, The Excursion. Wrote during Romanticism. Was married 4 times! The prospectus contains his most famous lines: My voice proclames How exquisitely the individual mind ( And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the hole whole species) to the external World Is fitted:-- and how exquisitely, too, Theme this but little heard of among Men, The external World is fitted to the mind.

7. Jane Austen 16 december 1775 – 18 july 1817 English Novelist Works of romantic fiction She was born at Steventon, hampshire Famous work: ”Sense and sensibilty”, ”Pride and Prejuidice”, ”Mansfield park”.

8. John Keats 31 okt 1795 - 23 feb 1821 Romantic poet Ode of a Grecian urn Ode of a Nightingale He wrote about a 100 poems He became more famous after his death.

9. Sir Walter Scott ( 1771-1832 ) British (Scotish) writer Creator of the novel genre Wrote 29 novels Ivanhoe

10. Mary Shelley  Born 30 august 1797 Died 1 february 1851  Gothic Roman- and novel writer  Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus  Romanticism

11. Edgar Allen Poe January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 American author,Poet, editor and literary critic! He is considered to be the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Some of his most famous tales are Tell-taled heart, Black cat, and The Raven. Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic.

12. Charlotte Brontë 1816 - 1855 Both Novelist and Poet, wrote under the name Currer Bell. Penn name Currer Bell Her novels are English Literature standards. Victorian literature Jane Eyre Villette Had two sisters that also wrote

13. Walt Whitman May 31 1819 – March 26 1892 American journalist, poet and a essayist Wrote about death and sexuality Born in Long Island – New York Franklin Evans (1842) Leaves of grass Most infuential poet, Father of free verse

14. Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 Famous poet, wrote short poems about death and immortality I am nobody! Who are you? A bird came down the walk Heaven is what i cannot reach Very few of her poems were published during her lifetime, it was after her death that her family found her poems that her sister later published. Even if Emily did not want to. Emilys last wish was that they should burn her poems.

15. Oscar ”Ogge” Wilde 1854-1900 Irish Poems London's most popular playwrights (1890) Lady Windermere´s Fan Gay

16. Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 Born in London 1882, she was a brittish author and a feminist. Her most famous works are Mrs Dalloway(1925), To the lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928). Mrs Dalloway – Created from two stories Orlando – A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf’s lover Vita Sackville-west. To the lighthouse – A landmark novel of high modernism. She married her husband Leonard Woolf 1912, who also was a writer.

17. Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie 1890-1976 Writer Miss Marple & Ten little niggers (And then there were none) Some of her books were evolved to games

18. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Characteristic: American Author Of Mice and Men, Cup of gold, The Grapes of Wrath Nobel Prize for Literature, Oscar.

19. George Orwell 1903-1950 A modern british author Animal farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four

20. Samuel Beckett 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989 He was a Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and a poet. He was an absurdist. Theatre Waiting for Godot (1953) Come and Go (1965)Waiting for GodotCome and Go Novels Murphy (1938)Murphy Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett, awarded the Croix de guerre by General Charles de Gaulle in March, 1945. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature Charles de GaulleNobel Prize in Literature

21. Sir William Golding (1911-1993) -Novelist, poet and playwriter -Novels -Knighted -Nobel Prize