"(14th century), Thomas Malory (15th century), Sir Thomas More (16th century), John Bunyan (17th century) and John Milton (17th century). In the 18th century Daniel Defoe (author of ""Robinson Crusoe"") and Samuel Richardson were pioneers of the modern novel. In the 19th century there followed further innovation by Jane Austen, the gothic novelist Mary Shelley, the children's writer Lewis Carroll, the Brontë sisters, the social campaigner Charles Dickens, the naturalist Thomas Hardy, the realist George Eliot, the visionary poet William Blake and Romantic poet William Wordsworth. 20th-century English writers include the science-fiction novelist H. G. Wells; the writers of children's"
"Thomas Rowland Hughes Thomas Rowland Hughes (often referred to as T. Rowland Hughes) (17 April 1903 – 24 October 1949), was a Welsh novelist, dramatist and poet He was the son of a quarryman from Llanberis, Caernarvonshire (Gwynedd today), in northern Wales. He is primarily renowned in the present day for his novels about characters living and working in the slate quarries of northern Wales, but in his day he was just as well known as a poet. ""William Jones"" is his most famous novel. Hughes obtained a first class degree in English at the University College of North Wales"
"listed by date of delivery, with date of first publication given separately if different. ""Selected Prose"", edited by John Carter, Cambridge University Press, 1961 A. E. Housman Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems ""A Shropshire Lad"". Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside. Their beauty, simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to Edwardian taste, and to many early"
"A. E. Housman Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems ""A Shropshire Lad"". Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside. Their beauty, simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th-century English composers both before and after the First World War. Through their song-settings, the poems became closely associated with that era, and with"
"Victorian elements"". Forster's most famous work, ""A Passage to India"" 1924, reflected challenges to imperialism, while his earlier novels examined the restrictions and hypocrisy of Edwardian society in England. The most popular British writer of the early years of the twentieth-century was arguably Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems. In addition to W.B. Yeats other important early modernists poets were the American-born poet T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) Eliot became a British citizen in 1927 but was born and educated in America. His most famous works are: ""Prufrock"" (1915), ""The Wasteland"" (1922) and ""Four Quartets"""
"John Rowlands (author) John Rowlands (August 14, 1938 – 23 February 2015) was a Welsh language author of several novels including ""Lle bo'r gwenyn"" (""Where Bees May Be"", 1960), and a Professor of Welsh literature. Born in Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, Rowlands graduated in Welsh from Bangor University in 1959 and went on to lecture at Abertawe/Swansea, Coleg y Drindod, Caerfyrddin, Llanbedr Pont Steffan and Aberystwyth. He retired in 2003 but remained active as an editor, critic and judge. In retirement he worked on creative writing courses at Bangor. His academic work included editing a major literary series ""Y Meddwl a'r Dychymyg"
"Piers Plowman Piers Plowman (written 1370–90) or ""Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman"" (""William's Vision of Piers Plowman"") is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed, alliterative verse divided into sections called ""passus"" (Latin for ""step""). Like the Pearl Poet's ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", ""Piers Plowman"" is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest works of English literature of the Middle Ages, even preceding and influencing Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"". ""Piers Plowman"" contains the first known allusion to a literary tradition of Robin Hood tales. The poem, a mix of"
"(1859 – 1936) was poet who was born in the Victorian era and who first published in the 1890s, but who only really became known in the 20th century. Housman is best known for his cycle of poems ""A Shropshire Lad"" (1896). This collection was turned down by several publishers so that Housman published it himself, and the work only became popular when ""the advent of war, first in the Boer War and then in World War I, gave the book widespread appeal due to its nostalgic depiction of brave English soldiers"". The poems' wistful evocation of doomed youth in"
"(1866–1946). Though Forster's work is ""frequently regarded as containing both modernist and Victorian elements"". E. M. Forster's ""A Passage to India"" (1924), reflected challenges to imperialism, while his earlier works such as ""A Room with a View"" (1908) and ""Howards End"" (1910), examined the restrictions and hypocrisy of Edwardian society in England. The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling ((1865–1936), a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). A significant English writer in the"
"friendship, confusing Forster with constant avowals of his love. LGBT E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including ""A Room with a View"" (1908), ""Howards End"" (1910) and ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists."
"William Langland William Langland (; ; 1332 – c. 1386) is the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as ""Piers Plowman"", an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes. The poem translated the language and concepts of the cloister into symbols and images that could be understood by a layman. Very little is known of Langland himself. It seems that he was born in the West Midlands of England in 1330. The narrator in ""Piers Plowman"" receives his first vision while sleeping in the Malvern Hills (between Herefordshire and Worcestershire), which suggests some"
"E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including ""A Room with a View"" (1908), ""Howards End"" (1910) and ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists. He was the only child of Alice Clara ""Lily"" (née"
"and Anne), Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy. World War I gave rise to British war poets and writers such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke who wrote (often paradoxically) of their expectations of war, and/or their experiences in the trenches. The most widely popular writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His novels include ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Man Who Would Be King"". His poem ""If—"" is a national favourite. Like William Ernest Henley's poem"
"In the second half of the century, English poets began to take an interest in French Symbolism. Two groups of poets emerged in the 1890s, the ""Yellow Book"" poets who adhered to the tenets of Aestheticism, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons and the Rhymers' Club group, that included Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson and Irishman William Butler Yeats. Irishman Yeats went on to become an important modernist in the 20th century. Also in the 1890s A. E. Housman (1859–1936) published at his own expense ""A Shropshire Lad"". The poems' wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English"
"John Boland (author) Bertram John Boland (12 February 1913 – 9 November 1976) was a British novelist and science fiction author. Boland was born in Birmingham, but later lived in East Sussex, on the edge of Ashdown Forest with his wife, Philippa. His most well known book was ""The League of Gentlemen"" (1958) which was released as a film. However, characters' names and the ending were changed. He wrote two sequels: They continued with the characterisations developed in the film. His first novel ""White August"" (1955) was a science fiction weather control disaster story. His second, ""No Refuge"" (1956) begins"
"which several of the poets were directly involved. Other notable poets to emerge in the early and middle 19th century include Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), Sidney Lanier (1842–1881), and James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916). As might be expected, the works of all these writers are united by a common search for a distinctive American voice to distinguish them from their British counterparts. To this end, they explored the landscape and traditions of their native country as materials for their poetry. The most significant example of this tendency may be ""The Song of Hiawatha"""
"revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, as well a reaction against the scientific rationalisation of nature. The poet William Wordsworth was a major contributor to the literature of landscape, as was his contemporary poet and novelist Walter Scott. Scott's influence was felt throughout Europe, as well as on major Victorian novelists in Britain, such as Emily Bronte, Mrs Gaskell, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, as well as John Cowper Powys in the 20th-century. Margaret Drabble in ""A Writer's Britain"" suggests that Thomas Hardy ""is perhaps the greatest writer of rural life and landscape"" in"
"artists that favoured wide and deep prospects, and rugged scenery. To the English Romantic imagination, moorlands fitted this image perfectly, enhancing the emotional impact of the story by placing it within a heightened and evocative landscape. Moorland forms the setting of various works of late Romantic English literature, ranging from the Yorkshire moorland in Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" and ""The Secret Garden"" by Frances Hodgson Burnett to Dartmoor in Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmesian mystery ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"". Enid Blyton's Famous Five series featured the young protagonists adventuring across various moorlands where they confronted criminals or other individuals of"
"breakthrough play ""The Ruffian on the Stair"", which was broadcast on BBC radio in 1964, on the opening lines of Henley's poem ""Madame Life's a Piece in Bloom."": William Ernest Henley William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an English poet, critic and editor of the late-Victorian era in England who is spoken of as having as central a role in his time as Samuel Johnson had in the eighteenth century. He is remembered most often for his 1875 poem ""Invictus"", a piece which recurs in popular awareness (e.g., see the 2009 Clint Eastwood film, ""Invictus"")."
"fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include ""The Forsyte Saga"" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells"
"novels – ""The Welsh Mountaineers"" in 1817 and ""Oakwood Hall"" in 1819. Protestant religion remained a theme common to much of Birmingham's literary output during the 19th century. ""John Inglesant"" – the ""philosophical romance"" that was the first and best-known work of the Birmingham novelist Joseph Henry Shorthouse – became a publishing triumph in the atmosphere of highly charged religious controversy of the 1880s, seeing its author ""fêted throughout the literary world"", the object of admiration from writers as varied as Charlotte Yonge, T. H. Huxley and Edmund Gosse, and the subject of an invitation to breakfast at 10 Downing"
"Lowland Scots, but in English. with a large admixture of Scottish words. The longest and most important of them are the mock poems ""On the Expedition of the Highland Host who came to destroy the western shires in winter 1678"" and ""On the clergie when they met to consult about taking the Test in the year 1681"". William Cleland William Cleland (ca. 1661 – 21 August 1689) was a Scottish poet and soldier. William was the son of Thomas Cleland, gamekeeper to the Marquess of Douglas, chief of the House of Douglas. He was probably brought up on the Douglas"
"Bangour (1704–54), socialite Alison Rutherford Cockburn (1712–94), and poet and playwright James Thompson's (1700–48), most famous for the nature poetry of his ""Seasons"". Tobias Smollett (1721–71) was a poet, essayist, satirist and playwright, but is best known for his picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Roderick Random"" (1748) and ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751) for which he is often seen as Scotland's first novelist. His work would be a major influence on later novelists such as Thackeray and Dickens. The early eighteenth century was also a period of innovation in Gaelic vernacular poetry. Major figures included Rob Donn"
"been associated with many writers, particularly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These include Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) and Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). The setting for A.A. Milne's ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" stories was inspired by Ashdown Forest, near Milne's country home at Hartfield. John Evelyn (1620–1706), particularly noted for his house, gardens and books which inspired others in the wider area, Wotton House, Surrey in the Vale of Holmesdale by Dorking just north of the Weald proper was a diarist, essayist and early author of botany, gardening and geography. The second half of E. M. Forster's ""A Room"
"Francis Hoyland Francis Hoyland (fl. 1763), was an English poet. Hoyland was the son of James Hoyland of Castle Howard, Yorkshire, and was born in 1727. He was educated in a school at Halifax, and on 18 June 1744 matriculated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1748. Soon afterwards he seems to have made a voyage to the West Indies to recruit his health. He took holy orders, was the friend of William Mason, and was introduced, probably by Mason, to Horace Walpole, who exerted himself on his behalf, and printed his poems at the Strawberry Hill"
"the time. She is increasingly considered a major fiction writer of the late nineteenth century, and an early modernist innovator. She is often remembered for her ""Wild Geese"" poems (1902). Her books were: Some critics identify a theme of noble landlord and noble peasant in her fourth book, ""Hurrish"", a Land War story set in the Burren County Clare which was read by William Ewart Gladstone and said to have influenced his policy. It deals with the theme of Irish hostility to English law. In the course of the book a landlord is assassinated, and Hurrish's mother, Bridget, refuses to"
"Rosa Mulholland Rosa Mulholland (also known as Lady Gilbert, 1841 – 1921) was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright. She was born in Belfast, the daughter of Dr. Joseph Stevenson Mulholland of Newry. She spent some years in a remote mountainous part of the West of Ireland after the death of her father. Her first novel was ""Dumana"" (1864), under the pen-name Ruth Murray. She originally wished to become a painter, but in her early literary life she received much help and encouragement from Charles Dickens, who highly valued her work as a writer and persuaded her to continue. Among"
"Boers were Beaten"" (1900); C.D. Haskim, ""For the Queen in South Africa"" (1900); F. Russell, ""The Boer's Blunder"" (1900); H. Nisbet, ""For Right and England"" (1900) and ""The Empire Makers"" (1900). Among the more notable literary figures of the day who were closely associated with the events of the Anglo‑Boer conflict were Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936); Winston Churchill (1874–1965); H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930); Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (1862–1931); Edgar Wallace (1875–1932); and John Buchan (1875–1940). Some of the most interesting names associated with satirising the Anglo‑Boer conflict include H.H. Munro (Saki) (""Alice in Pall Mall"", 1900); G.K."
"Barbara Hofland Barbara Hofland (1770 – 4 November 1844) was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry. Born Barbara Wreaks or Wreakes, her father Robert Wreakes was a Sheffield manufacturer, but he died when she was three and she was raised by a maiden aunt. She began writing for the local paper and started a milliner's shop, but she sold it when she married the businessman Thomas Bradshawe Hoole in 1796, only to be widowed two years later with an infant son. She went to live with her mother-in-law in Attercliffe,"
"Barbara Hofland Barbara Hofland (1770 – 4 November 1844) was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry. Born Barbara Wreaks or Wreakes, her father Robert Wreakes was a Sheffield manufacturer, but he died when she was three and she was raised by a maiden aunt. She began writing for the local paper and started a milliner's shop, but she sold it when she married the businessman Thomas Bradshawe Hoole in 1796, only to be widowed two years later with an infant son. She went to live with her mother-in-law in Attercliffe,"
"quickly became part of the standard woodwind repertoire in England at that time. There has been some controversy as to whether or not Woodcock actually wrote these twelve concertos, however. In 1954 Brian Priestman ascribed them to Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London, and when some of the concertos were published in 1935, they were attributed to George Frideric Handel. More recent scholarship, however, supports the authorship of Robert Woodcock. Robert Woodcock Robert Woodcock (bap. 9 October 1690 – died 10 April 1728) was an English marine painter, musician, and composer who lived during the Baroque period. He is notable for having"
"Revolution was an especially important influence on the political thinking of many at this time. The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. This includes the graveyard poets, who were a number of pre-Romantic English poets, writing in the 1740s and later, whose works are characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, ""skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms"" in the context of the graveyard. To this was added, by later practitioners, a feeling for the 'sublime' and uncanny, and an interest in ancient"
"at the instigation of, John Wycliffe. They appeared between about 1382 and 1395. These Bible translations were the chief inspiration and cause of the Lollard movement, a pre-Reformation movement that rejected many of the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Another literary genre, that of Romances, appears in English from the 13th century, with ""King Horn"" and ""Havelock the Dane"", based on Anglo-Norman originals such as the ""Romance of Horn"" (c. 1170), but it was in the 14th century that major writers in English first appeared. These were William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer and the so-called Pearl Poet, whose most famous"