LITERARY PERSONALITIES 

GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1340 – 1400

EDMUND SPENSER 1552 – 1599

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564 – 1616

BEN JONSON 1573 – 1637

JOHN MILTON 1608 – 1674

JOHN DRYDEN 1631 – 1700

ALEXANDER POPE 1688 – 1744

SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709 – 1784

JOSEPH ADDISON 1672 – 1714

HENRY FIELDING 1707 – 1754

JANE AUSTEN 1775 – 1817

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770 – 1850

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1772 – 1834

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792 – 1822

JOHN KEATS 1795 – 1821

GEORGE GORDON BYRON 1788 – 1824

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 1809 – 1892

ROBERT BROWNING 1812 – 1889

MATTHEW ARNOLD 1822 – 1888

THOMAS HARDY 1840 – 1928

VIRGINIA WOOLF 1882 – 1941

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 1856 – 1950

JAMES JOYCE 1882 – 1941

THOMAS STERN ELIOT 1888 – 1965

JOHN DONNE 1572 – 1632

GEORGE HERBERT 1593 – 1633

RICHARD CRASHAW 1612 – 1649

HENRY VAUGHAN 1622 – 1695

THOMAS CAREW 1594 – 1639

ABRAHAM COWLEY 1618 – 1667

ANDREW MARVELL 1621 – 1678