A list of the most important writers of English literature

Name Birth- Titles Livin Famous works Mnemonic

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1.William 1564-1616 Bard of Avon/ Father of 52 Tragedy Macbeth Tragedy: Person name
Shakespeare English literature /English Julius Caesar King Lear Comedy: ATM Cards LAW
Drama/National Poet of Antony and Cleopatra Hamlet
England/ Titus Andronicus Timon of Athens
Dramatist/Playwrite Troilus and Cressida Cymbeline
Romeo and Juliet Coriolanus
Othello
2.William 1770-1850 The poet of nature/Lake 70 Michael Cuckoo Michael his With my beloved
Wordsworth poet/Poet of childhood The Prelude Daffodils Lucy Lucy traveled to Tintern in
Lucy Lyrical Ballads March to meet He was doing
The Excursion Tintern Abbey the duty of harvesting alone .
Written In March Goody Blake On his way, Michael saw
The Recluse The Thorn cuckoo and daffodil flowers .
The Solitary Reaper The Idiot boy
Ode to Duty
3.ST Coleridge 1772-1834 Opium Eater/The poet of 62 Ancient Mariner The Suicide Argument ABCD
Supernaturalism/Romanic Biographia Literaria The Religious Musings
poet/Lake District Poet Christabel The Destiny of Nations
Dejection: An Ode Ode to Departing Years
The day Dream
The Devil’s Thought
4.Percy Bysshe 1792-1822 Revolutionary Poet/Poet of 30 Ozyamandias The Cloud Ozyamandias and Adonais in the
Shelly Hope Adonais The Necessity Atheism sky , in the wind , in the clouds
To a Skylark Cenci On Turn around Wandering
Ode to the West Land Prometheus Unbound
5.John Keats 1795-1821 Poet of beauty / Romantic 26 Ode on a Melancholy Ode to a Nightingale MEGHNA LIA
Poet / Poet of Endymion Ode to Autumn
Sensuousness Ode on a Grecian Urn Lamia
Hyperion Isabella
6.Christopher 1564-1593 The father of English 29 Tamburlaine the Great Doctor Faustus TEPID/ Malta
Marlowe Tragedy Edward II The Jew of Malta
The Passionate Shepherded
to His love
7.Ben Jonson 1572-1637 Comedy of Humours 52 The Silent Woman Bartholomew Fair VESA
Alchemist A Tale of Tub**
Volpone The Isle of Dogs
Everyman in his Humour The Case is Altered
Everyman out of his Humour
8.Charles Dickens 1812-1870 58 The Adventures of Oliver The Bleak House Oliver is a lot. Big Expectations
Twist Hard Times With Christmas Day of David With
Great Expectation The Old Curiosity Shop See To do For Two In the city
A Christmas Carol The Pickwick Papers Gone
David Copperfield **
A Tale of Two Cities
9.Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892 Representative poet/Lyric 90 Oenone Tithonus Tithonus মনে করে Ulysses এর
Poet Ulysses Morte D Arthur Memory অনেক ভাল
Lotus In Memorium
Locksley Hall
10.George Bernard 1856-1950 Father of modern English 94 The Doctor’s Dilemmma Man and Superman When Doctor Warren Human
Shaw Literature/Drama Mrs.Warren’s Profession Candida cancer Treatment Was doing
The Man of Destiny You Never Can Tell Caesar then With Arms Superman
1925( Literature ) Caesar and Cleopatra The Apple Cart With See To do Gone
Arms and the Man Pygmalion
Androcles and The Lion
11.Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 Pessimistic Novelist 88 The Poor Man and The Lady Under the Greenwood Poor The man is the mayor of
The Mayor of Caster bridge Tree Casterbridge. He asked Tess to
Tess of the D’Urberville Desperate Remedies return . Later, Poor Man takes
Far from the Madding Crowd Jude the Obscure Tess from the Crowd . Many
The Return of the Native In time of the Breaking Away Goes. Gone
Nation*
12.D.H. Lawrence 1885-1930 45 The white Peacock Women in Love Love/ Lovers related last a
Sons nad Lovers Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Rainbow A Modern Lover
13.Earnest 1899-1961 62 The Old Man and the Sea The Torrents of the Old Man- Indian Camp
Hemingway Indian Camp Spring A Ringing the bell Jobs Do One
For Whom the Bell Tolls The Sun also Rise day Sun To get up With With
1954(The Old man Cats in the Rain A Farewell to Arms He/She Her The job Said farewell.
and The Sea)
14.George Orwell 1903-1950 53 Animal Farm Burmese Day
Homage to Catalonia Coming up for Airs
Nineteen Eighty-Four Shooting an Elephant
A Clergyman Daughter A Hanging
15.T.S Eliot 1888-1965 77 The Rock Portrait of the Lady Eliot- Waste Land এ বুধবারে
The Family Reunion Journey to the Magic Hollow Men কে Murderer করল
1948 The Cocktail Party The Waste Land
( The Waste Land) The Elder Statesman Gerontion**
Murderer in the Cathedral The love songs of J
The Hollow Men Alfred Prufrock
Ash Wednesday Tradition and Individual
Four Quarters Talent
16.Robert Browning 1812-1889 77 Men and Women The return of the Druses
My last Duchess Colombo’s Birthday
Christmas eve and easter day The Pied Piper of
Hamelin
17.William Butler 1865-1939 74 The Tower The Lake Isle of Innisfree Watching Leda Swans For In
Yeats The Winding Stair Easter 1916 Byzantium Gone There Colle-park
1923 The Green Hamlet Sail to Byzantium 's Lake 's In Many Swans Saw it.
Literature The wild Swans at Colle Leda and The Swan
18.Robert Frost 1874-1963 National Poet of America 89 A Boy’s Will
North of Boston
From Mountain Interval
19.John Milton 1608-1674 Great epic poet/Great 66 Samson Agonistes Paradise lost SLAP
Master of verse Lycidas Paradis Regained
Areopagitica On his blindness
20.Jonathon Swift 1667-1745 Satirist Poet 78 Guiliver’s Travels The Battle of the Book Guilliver in his Proposal letter book
A modest Proposal A Tale of a Tub In between Hidden Put it.
Drapier’s letters
21.Alexander Pope 1688-1744 Mock Heroic Poet 56
22.William Blake 1757-1827 Poet and Painter 70 Milton a Poem The Four Zoas Milton 's Blake Four in Marriage
The Marriage of Heaven and Songs of Innocence and Sung a song .
Hell Songs of Experience
23.John Donne 1572-1631 Father of Metaphysical 59 The Ecstasy A Valediction Forbidding
Poetry The Sun Rising Mourning
The Canonization Loves Growth
The Good Morning Twickenham Garden
24.Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Father of English 65
Essay/Prose
25. Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910 82 War and Peace A confession CAW
Anna Karenina
26. Walt Whitman 1819-1892 National Poet of America 73 Leaves of Grass Drum Taps
Song of Myself Democratic Vistas
O captain! My Captain
27.Tony Morrison 1931-2019 90 Beloved Sula Morrison Her Lover's Blue Eye
1993 Songs of Solomon The Bluest Eye Towards Looking Solomon Island
(The Bluest Eye) Suler Song Talk Thinking .
American
28. E.M. Forster The Eternal Moment A Passage to India Foster one Eternal moment from a
A Room with a View The Longest Journey Room Out Become India Longest
Journey
29. Virginia Woolf The night and day To the lighthouse Night and day Mrs. Dalway
Mrs. Dalloway The voyage out Ghostly In the house Lights By
A haunted house The waves burning Sea Wave Seeing

30. Oscar Wilde An ideal husband The importance of being Ideal Husband 's Other Women
A woman is of no earnest don't matter.
importance.
31. Barack Obama A latter to my daughter The audacity of hope
Dreams of my father Change you can believe
in..
American writer Scottish writer Irish writer University Wits ( 7 ) Russian
Arthur Miller/ Henry Miller Sir Walter Scott Samuel Beckett Christopher Marlowe Maxim Gorky
Toni Morrison Sir Arthur Conan Doyle G.B Shaw Thomas Kyd Dostoyevsky
Herman Melvile W.B Yeats Thomas Nashe Karl Marx
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Oscar Wilde Thomas Lodge Leo Tolstoy
Ernest Hemingway Robert Greene
Emily Dickenson George Peele
Eugene O,Neill John Lyly
Emersion
Robert Frost/ Saul Bellow
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bertrand Russel
Walt Whitman
Famous works of different writers
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Henry Fielding Tom Jones Poet of Romantic Period
Saul Belloew Seize the day William Makepeace Vanity Fair William Wordsworth
Arthur Miller Death of Salesman Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray William Blake
Rudyard The Jungle book Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holms William Hazlitt
Sir David Lindsey The Dream Mathew Arnold The Study of Poetry P.B Shelley
Edmund Spenser Faerie Queen Churchill The History of Second World War Alexander Pushkin
Eugene O’Neil Bread and Butter Sigmund Freud Interpretation of Dream Lord Byron
Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House Samuel Barclay Beckett Waiting for Godot Jane Austen
Sir Philip Sidney An Apology for Poetry Robert Herrick Hesparides/ To Draffodils John Keats
John Lyly King Midas Daniel Defoe Alexander Pope Henry loye Davian Drossy
Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy Samuel Richardson Pamela Charles Lamb

Romantic period poet

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