All age writers till post modern

Famous writes of English literature

0450 - 1066: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
Major Writers:

Beowulf (Anonymous)


1066 - 1500: Middle English Period
Major Writers:

Geoffrey Chaucer


1500 - 1600: The Renaissance (Early Modern) Period

1558 - 1603: Elizabethan Age

Major Writers:

Christopher Marlowe

Edmund Spenser

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

Sir Philip Sidney

Thomas Dekker

Thomas Wyatt

William Shakespeare


1603 - 1625: Jacobean Age

Major Writers:

Ben Jonson

John Webster

Thomas Kyd

George Chapman

John Donne

George Herbert

Emilia Lanyer


1625 - 1649: Caroline Age

Major Writers:

John Ford

John Milton


1649 - 1660: Commonwealth Period

Major Writers:

John Milton

Andrew Marvell

Thomas Hobbes


1660 - 1700: Restoration Period
Major Writers:

John Dryden


1700 - 1745: The Augustan Age
Major Writers:

Alexander Pope

Jonathan Swift

Samuel Johnson


1745 - 1783: The Age Of Sensibility

1785 - 1830: The Romantic Period

Major Writers:

William Wordsworth

S.T. Coleridge

Jane Austen

the Brontës


1832 - 1901: The Victorian Period
Major Writers:

Charles Dickens

George Eliot

Robert Browning

Alfred Lord Tennyson


1848 - 1860: The Pre-Raphaelites
Major Writers:

William Holman Hunt

John Everett Millais

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

William Michael Rossetti

James Collinson

Frederic George Stephens

Thomas Woolner


1880 - 1901: Aestheticism and Decadence


1901 - 1910: The Edwardian Period
Major Writers:

J. M. Barrie

Arnold Bennett

Joseph Conrad

E. M. Forster

John Galsworthy

Kenneth Grahame

Edith Nesbit

Beatrix Potter

Lucy Maud Montgomery

H. G. Wells

P. G. Wodehouse


1910 - 1914: The Georgian Period

Major Writers:

G.M. Hopkins

H.G. Wells

James Joyce

D.H. Lawrence

T.S. Eliot


1914 - 1945: The Modern Period

Major Writers:

Knut Hamsun

James Joyce

Mikhail Bulgakov

T. S. Eliot

Virginia Woolf

John Steinbeck

D. H. Lawrence

Ezra Pound

William Faulkner

Ernest Hemingway

Katherine Anne Porter

E. M. Forster

Franz Kafka

Joseph Conrad

W. B. Yeats

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Samuel Beckett

Robert Frost


1945 - Present: Post Modern Period

Major Writers:

Ted Hughes

Doris Lessing

John Fowles

Don DeLillo

A.S. Byatt