1. John Donne 1572-1631 British poet and priset Famous for his metaphysics writing Famous work: A Valediction. Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnets, Anniversaries A secret marriage Converted from Catholicism

2. John Milton 1608 - 1674 ┼ Poet and hymn writer Paradise Lost -1667 Lycidas - 1638 Became blind 1652

4. 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

5. Scottish poet Halloween, The holy fair ”Burns’s Night”, January every year Robert Burns 1759-1796

6. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Wrote novels and poetry Wrote Ivanhoe Born in Scottland

7. Jane Austen 1775-1817 She wrote romantic novels. Pride and prejudice. Sense and Sensibility. She did not use her name when she published her works.

8. 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

9. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851 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.

10. Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849  Famous for his short horror stories  One of the fathers of the science fiction genre  He wrote during the Romanticism Famous works  The black cat  The raven  The murders in Rue Morgue Interesting Facts  It’s said that he was a gambler and that it led to alcoholism

11. Charles Dickens 1812-1870 English novelist The greatest during the victorian era Emphasized injustice, social evil Comical inputs Famous work: Oliver Twist David Copperfield The Pickwick Papers Interesting facts: Chapters published in periodicals Subscribers died due to addiction Changed orphanages in London

12. Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855 -C-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

13. 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

14. Walt Whitman 1819-1892 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

15. 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?”

16. 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 Måns Boström TE09B

17. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 Essayist, Novelist, Poet and travel writer. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Treasure Island. One of the 30 most translated authors.

18. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 British/Irish playwright Famous plays - The Picture of Dorian Gray - The Decay of Lying - The Importance of Being Earnest Got thrown into prison

19. Rudyard Kipling 1865 - 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.

20. James Joyce Irish Novelist & Poet Born 1882 Dead 1941 Most famous Work Ulysses His life & Work is celibrated 16 June in Dublin every year

21. Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 An experimental author The Voyage Out, Jacob's Room,Mrs Dalloway Mental illness and suicide to an Oscar movie, Bloomsburygroup,

22. Agatha Christie 1890-1976 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.

23. 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

24. John Steinbeck 1902-1968 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

25. 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”

26. Samuel Beckett 1906 - 1989 Irish Writer/Dramatist Waiting for Godot, Fin de partie and Happy days Other facts. -Nobel prize 1969 -Absurd plays

27. 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