Important Authors and their Origin & type
Authors
Origin & type
Sample works
Adlof Hitler
German Fiejrer
Mein Kamf
Aeschylus
Father of Greek Tragedy
Prometheos Bound, Agamemnon
Alexander Pope
English Poet and Satirist
The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad
Alfred Tennyson
English Poet
In Memoriam, The Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the king, Ulysses
Andrew Marvell
English Poet
The Garden
Aristophanes
Greek Poet and Playwright
The peace, The Clouds, Frogs
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
Poetics
Ben Jonson
English Poet and Dramatist
Volpone, Everyman in His Humour
Bertrand Russel
British Philosopher
Marriage and Morals, The Impact of Science upon Society
Charles Darwin
English Writer
Origin of Species, Descent of Man
Charles Dickens
English Novelist
The Pickwick Paper, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations
Charlotte Bronte
British Novelist
Jane Eyre, Professor Shirley
Christopher Marlowe
British Dramatist of Elizabethan Age
Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine
D.H. Lawrence
English Novelist and Poet
Lady of Chatterley's Lover
Daniel Defoe
English Journalist and Novelist
Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
Dante
Italian Poet
La Divina Comedia
Dr. Samuel Johnson
English lexicographer and Writer
vanity of the Human Wishes, Dictionary
Dylan Thomas
English Poet and Journalist
Under Milk Wood, Eighteen Poems
E.M. Forster
English Novelist
A Passage to India, Longest Journey
Edger Allan Poe
American short story writer
The Raven
Francis Bacon
English Philosopher and Essayist
Novum Organum, Essays
Geoffrey Chaucer
Father of English Poetry
Canterbury Tales, The Legend of Good Woman
George Barnard Shaw
Irish Dramatist and Critic
Man and Superman, Candida, Apple Cart, Arms and the Man
George Eliot
Author
Adam Bede, The Mill on the Eloss, Silas Marner
George Orwell
Novelist
Nineteen Eighty Four, Animal Farm
H.G. Wells
English Science Fiction Writer
The Time Machine, The Invisible Man
H.W. Longfellow
American Poet
A Psalm of Life
Henry Fielding
English Novelist
Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
Homer
Greek Epic Poet
Odessey, Iliad
James Henry Leigh Hunt
English Poet, Politician and Essayist
Abu Ben Adhem
Jane Austen
English Woman Novelist
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
John Bunyan
English Prose Writer
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Milton
English Poet
Samson Agonistes, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
John Webster
English Playwright
The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi
Karl Marx
German Philosopher and Economist
Das Capital, Communist Manifesto
Leo Tolstoy
Russian Author
War and Peace
Lord Byron
Romantic Poet
Don Juan
Mathew Arnold
English Poet and Critic
Sohrab and Rustom, The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach
Maxim Gorky
Russian Author
Mother; My Childhood
Mrs. Virginia Woolf
English Novelist
Night and Day; A Room of One's Own
Oliver Goldsmith
Irish Writer, Poet, Novelist and Playwright
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oscar Wilde
English Poet and Novelist
An Ideal Husband
P.B. Shelley
English Poet
Adonias; Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark
Robert Frost
American Poet
West Running Brook
Robert Herrick
English Poet
Hesperides, To Daffodils
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Author and Poet
Kidnapped; Treasure Island
Rudyard Kipling
English Poet and Novelist
The Jungle Book, Kim
S.T. Coleridge
English Poet
Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria
Samuel Butler
English Author
The way of All Flesh
Samuel Johnson
English Writer
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Saul Bellow
American Novelist (Born in Canada)
seize The Day
William Shakespeare
Greatest English Poet and Dramatist
Macbeth, Hamlet, As You Like it etc.
Sigmund Freud
Austrian Founder of Psycho-Analysis
Delusion and Dream
Sir Arthur C. Doyle
English Novelist
The Adventures of Sherlock Homes
Sir Philip Sidney
English Soldier and Poet
Apology for Poperty
Sir Winston Churchill
Politician of England
The Gathering Strom; The Second World War
T.S. Eliot
English Poet and Playwright
Murder in the Cathedral
Thomas Carlyle
English Writer
Past and President
Thomas Gray
English Poet
Ode to Adversity
Thomas Hardy
Novelist
The Mayor Casterbrid
Thomas Kyd
Playwright
The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Moore
Irish Poet
The Epicurean, The Minstrel Boy, The La Rose of Summer
Virginia Woolf
English Novelist
Mrs. Dalloway
W.B. Yeats
Irish Poet and Dramatist
The Tower, Isle of Innisfree
William Blake
English Poet
Songs of Experience; Songs of Innocence
William Faulkner
American Novelist
Light in August
William Langland
Prose Writer
Piers Plowman
William Makepeace Thackeray
English Novelist
Henry Esmond; Vanity Fair
William Wordsworth
English Poet
Lirical Ballads; The Prelude; The Daffodils, Michael, Tintern Abbey