List of Writers and their DOB & DOD

Age of Chaucer

1. King James I of Scotland

2. John Lydgate
3. Sir Thoms Malory
4. Sir Thomas More
5. Tottel
6. William Tyndale
7. Geoffery Chaucer
8. William Langland
9. John Gower
10.Wycliff
11.Sir John Mandeville
12.Thomas Hoccleve
13.William Dunbar
14.Roger Ascham
15.Nicholas Udall
16.John Heywood
17.Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton
18.John Still
19.John Barbour
20.Sir David Lyndsay
21.Robert Henryson
22.Gawain Douglas
23.Stephen Hawes
24.Alexander Barclay
25.John Skelton

Major Authors of the Elizabethan Age

1. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

2. Philip Sidney (154-1586)
3. Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
4. Daniel (1562-1619)
5. Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
6. William Warner (1558-1609)
7. Thomas Sackville (1536-1608)
8. George Gascoigne(1525-1577)
9. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
10.Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
11.George Peele (1558-1597)
12.Robert Greene (1560-1592)
13.Thomas Nash (1567-1601)
14.Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)
15.Thomas Kyd (1557-1595)
16.John Lyly (1554=1606)
17.Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
18.John Fletcher (1579-1625)
19.John Webster (1580-1625)
20.John Ford (1586-1639)
21.Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
22.Thomas Heywood (1575-1650)
23.Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
24.Roger Ascham (1515-1568)
25.Robert Burton (1577-1640)
26.Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
27.Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
28.Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
29.Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
30.Raphael Holinshed
31.Richard Hakluyt
32.Richard Hooker (1552-1600)
33.William Webbe(16th Century)
34.George Puttenham

Major Authors of the Augustan Age

1. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
2. Mathew Prior (1664-1721)
3. John Gay (1685-1932)
4. Edward Young (1683-1765)
5. Robert Blair (1699-1746)
6. Lady Winchilsea (1660-1784)
7. Dr.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
8. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
9. Daniel Defoe (1661-1931)
10.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
11.Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
12.Richard Steele (1672-1729)
13.George Lillo (1693-1939)
14.Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
15.Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
16.Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
17.Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
18.Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
19.Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
20.Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
21.Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
22.Clara Reeve (1729-1807)
23.Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
24.James Thomson (1700-1748)
25.John Dyer (1700-1758)
26.William Blake (1757-1827)
27.George Crabbe (1754-1832)
28.Bishop Percy (1729-1811)
29.Thomas Chatterton (1754-1770)
30.William Collins (1721-1759)
31.James Macpherson (1736-1796)
32.Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
33.Robert Burns (1759-1796)
34.Willliam Cowper (1731-1800)
35.Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
 Top 21 Romantic Age Writers
1. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
2. Walter Scott (1771-1832)
3. Robert Southey (1774-1843)
4. John Clare (1793-1864)
5. S.T Coleridge (1772-1834)
6. Lord Byron (1788-1824)
7. P.B Shelley (1792-1822)
8. John Keats (1795-1821)
9. Jane Austen (1775-1817)
10.Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
11.William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
12.Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
13.Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
14.Samuel Rogers (1763-185)
15.James Hogg (1770-1835)
16.Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
17.Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
18.Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
19.John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
20.Savage Landor (1775-1864)
21.Maria Edgeworth
22.Rabindranath Tagore

Top 31 Victorian Age Writers

1. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

2. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
3. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
4. Arthur Hugh Clough (1889-1861)
5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
6. D.G Rossetti (1828-1882)
7. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
8. William Morris (1834-1896)
9. A.C Swinburne (1837-1909)
10.H.W Longfellow(1807-1882)
11.Edward Fitzerald (1809-1883)
12.Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)
13.John Davidson (1857-1909)
14.W.E Henley (1849-19.3)
15.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
16.John Ruskin (1819-1900)
17.T.B Macaulay (1800-1859)
18.Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
19.William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1861)
20.George Meredith (1828-1909)
21.Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
22.Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
23.Anne Bronte (1820-1849)
24.George Eliot (1810-1880)
25.Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
26.Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
27.R.L  Stevenson (1850-1894)
28.Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
29.Charles Kingsley (1810-1875)
30.Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
31.Thomas Hardy (1840-1828)

37 Famous Writers of Modern Age

1. Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
2. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1905)
3. W.B Yeats (1865-1939)
4. John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
5. George Moore (1857-1933)
6. George Gissing (1857-1903)
7. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
8. H.G Wells (1866-1946)
9. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
10.Arnold Bennett (1865-1931)
11.Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
12.Walter De La Mare (1873-1956)
13.T.S Eliot (1888-1965)
14.W.H Auden (1907-1973)
15.Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
16.Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969)
17.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
18.E.M Forster (1879-1970)
19.James Joyce (1882-1941)
20.D.H Lawrence (1885-1930)
21.Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
22.Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
23.Graham Green (1904-1991)
24.George Orwell (1903-1950)
25.Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
26.John Masefield (1874-1967)
27.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
28.Stephen Spender (1909-1977)
29.Sean O’Casey (1884-1964)
30.William Somerset Maugham (1839-1917)
31.J.B Priestley (1894-1984)
32.Harold Pinter (1930)
33.C.P Snow (1905-1980)
34.C. Day-Lewis (1904-1972)
35.William Gerald Golding (1911)
36.I.A Richards (1893)
37.F.R Leavis