20 most important people in English literature:

 

20 most important people in English literature:

Name	Contribution	Famous Works	Birth/Death Dates
William Shakespeare	Playwright and poet	Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet	1564-1616
Jane Austen	Novelist	Pride and Prejudice, Emma	1775-1817
Charles Dickens	Novelist	Oliver Twist, Great Expectations	1812-1870
Virginia Woolf	Novelist	Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse	1882-1941
John Milton	Poet	Paradise Lost	1608-1674
Samuel Johnson	Lexicographer, essayist, and author	A Dictionary of the English Language	1709-1784
William Wordsworth	Poet	Lyrical Ballads	1770-1850
Emily Bronte	Novelist and poet	Wuthering Heights	1818-1848
William Blake	Poet, painter, and printmaker	Songs of Innocence and of Experience	1757-1827
T.S. Eliot	Poet, playwright, and critic	The Waste Land	1888-1965
Joseph Conrad	Novelist	Heart of Darkness	1857-1924
D.H. Lawrence	Novelist, poet, and essayist	Lady Chatterley's Lover	1885-1930
Samuel Beckett	Playwright, novelist, and poet	Waiting for Godot	1906-1989
John Keats	Poet	Ode to a Nightingale	1795-1821
George Orwell	Novelist, essayist, and journalist	Animal Farm, 1984	1903-1950
Oscar Wilde	Playwright, novelist, and essayist	The Importance of Being Earnest	1854-1900
Toni Morrison	Novelist and essayist	Beloved, The Bluest Eye	1931-2019
W.B. Yeats	Poet, playwright, and mystic	The Second Coming, Easter, 1916	1865-1939
Charlotte Bronte	Novelist and poet	Jane Eyre, Villette	1816-1855
Joseph Addison	Essayist and poet	The Spectator	1672-1719

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