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UGCNET(English) Important Authors

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Paper 3 Top 40 Authors for UGC NET (English)


1. John Dryden 21. Amitav Ghosh

2. W.B.Yeats 22. William Blake

3. S.T.Coleridge 23. James Joyce

4. E.M.Forster 24. Michael Foucault

5. Viriginia Woolf 25. Girish Karnad

6. William Wordsworth 26. Tennyson

7. John Keats 27. Leo Tolstoy

8. John Milton 28. Dr. Johnson

9. Alexander Pope 29. Bertolt Brecht

10. Ben Jonson 30. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11. Charles Dickens 31. Derek Walcott

12. T.S.Eliot 32. Philip Sidney

13. Andrew Marvell 33. John Bunyan

14. Edmund Spenser 34. Julia Kristeva

15. Henry James 35. Thomas Mann

16. Jonathan Swift 36. Franz Kafka

17. Sophocles 37. Luigi Pirandello

18. John Webster 38. Robert Burton

19. Ian Mcwan 39. Thomas More

20. Geoffrey Chaucer 40. Frank Kermode

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UGCNET(English) Important Authors
Prepared by E. DHANYARASHMI

Paper 3 Other Important Authors


1. Oscar Wilde 26. Joseph Conrad
2. Arthur Miller 27. Thomas Hardy
3. J.M.Coetzee 28. V.S.Naipaul
4. Mahesh Dattani 29. Nissim Ezekiel
5. Mikhail Bakhtin 30. Jean Baudrillard
6. R.K.Narayan 31. Aphra Behn
7. Salman Rushdie 32. Ralph Ellison
8. Kazuo Ishiguro 33. Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Anita Desai 34. Patrick White
10. Lacan 35. Wole Soyinka
11. Arun Kolatkar 36. Byron
12. George Orwell 37. P.B.Shelley
13. Seamus Heaney’ 38. Margarert Atwood
14. Frantz Fanon 39. William Congreve
15. Jacques Derrida 40. Longinus
16. Oliver Goldsmith 41. I.A.Richards
17. Italio Calvino 42. William Golding
18. Christopher Marlow 43. Aristophanes
19. John Donne 44. Aristotle
20. Harold Pinter 45. Roland Barthes
21. A.D.Hope 46. Daniel Defoe
22. William Thackeray 47. Horace Walpole
23. Anton Chekhov 48. Edward Gibbon
24. Robert Browning 49. Edmund Bruke
25. Francis Bacon 50. Jermey Collier

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