This document provides biographical information and lists major works for 20 English poets from Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century to T.S. Eliot in the 20th century. It discusses their contributions to English literature and poetic styles and movements including the metaphysical poets. The poets covered include William Shakespeare, John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot and others.

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2. Geoffrey Chaucer 1340 – 1400
He was born in London .
He was father of English poetry .
work .
 Troilus and Criseyde: 1385
 The house fame: 1380
 The legend of good women;
 The Canterbury tales

3. Edmund Spenser 1552 – 1599
Edmund Spenser, (born 1552/53, London, England—
died January 13, 1599, London), English poet whose
long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the
greatest in the English language. It was written in what
came to be called the Spenserian stanza.
Major works
The Ruines of Time"
The Teares of the Muses"
Virgil's Gnat"
Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale"
Ruines of Rome : by bellay
Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie"
Visions of the Worlds Vanitie"

4. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
He was born in London (England)
He was a great novelist
Work :
 A Midsummer Night's Dream
 Much Ado About Nothing
 King Lear
 Love's Labour's Lost
 A Lover's Complaint
 To the Queen
 Love PoThe Riverside Shakespeare ems
and Sonnets

5. Ben Jonson 1573 – 1637
Ben Jonson a contemporary of Shakespeare and
a prominent dramatist of his times:
He also made his plays realistic rather then
romantic:
Major works:
The white devil: 1612
In the Apologetic.
A Nymph's Passion
The Hour-Glass
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Against Jealousy
The Dream

6. John Milton 1608 – 1674
 Milton was the greatest poet of the puritan age
:
 Though Milton praised Spenser , Shakespeare ,
and ben Jonson as poets, he was different from
all of them .
 Major work :
 Paradise Lost
 Areopagitica
 The Portable Milton
 The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

7. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
English poet, dramatist, and literary critic who so dominated
the literary scene of his day that it came to be known as the
Age of Dryden:
Work
 Astraea Redux : 1660
 The wild gallant : 1663
 The Indian Emperour : 1665
 The mistake husband : 1667
 All for love : 1678

8. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
 Pope is considered as the greatest poet of the classicism
period:
 He is prince of classicism as professor:
 He was invalid of small stature and delicate constitution,
whose bad nerves and cruel headaches made his own phase
a long diseas
Pastorals :1709
 An Essay on Criticism: 1711
 Messiah:1712
 The Rape of the Lock:1712

9. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting
contributions to English literature as a poet, novelist, puritan,
literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
Major works
The Rambler:
The idler Resselas:
The patriot:
The Adventure:

10. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1714
He was an English novelist, poet, dramatist, and
politician. He was the first son of The Respected
Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered
alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard
Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
Works
 The spectator :
 The vision of Mirzah :
 The guardian :
 A Tragedy and selected essays

11. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
Novelist and dramatist, who, with Samuel
Richardson, is considered a founder of the English
novel. Among his major novels are Joseph
Andrews:
Work
 The temple beau :1730
 The Modern Husband :1732
 The mock Doctor : 1733
 The Lottery :17735
 The miser :1735

12. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
While not widely known in her own
time, Austen's comic novels of love among the
landed gentry gained popularity after 1869, and
her reputation skyrocketed in the 20th century.
Work
 Emma :1815
 Persuasion : 1817
 Lady Susan : 1810

13. William words worth 1770 – 1850
He was a major English Romantic poet
who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped
to launch the Romantic Age in English
literature with their joint publication Lyrical
Ballads (1798).
Work
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14. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 –
1834
A friend to poet William
Wordsworth,Coleridge was a founder of the
English Romantic Movement. His best known
poems are "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and
"Kubla Khan," the latter of which was reportedly
written under the influence of opium.
Work
The watchman :1970
The friends :1969
Lay sermous : 1972
Lectures 1795 on polities and Religion : 1971

15. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
Born in Broad bridge Heath, England, on August 4, 1792,
Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the epic poets of the 19th
century, and is best known for his classic anthology verse
works such as Ode to the West Wind and The Masque of
Anarchy. He is also well known for his long-form poetry,
including Queen Mab and Alastor
Major work
On death :1816
The revolt of Islam : 1817
Ozymandias : 1818
To a skylark :1820
Men of England : 1819

16. John Keats 1795 – 1821
John Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31
October 1795 to Thomas Keats and his wife, born
Frances Jennings. He was a very bad evidence of
his exact birthplace:
Major work
To hope :
To homer :
To Autumn :
Roben hood :
On the sea :

17. George Gordon Byron 1788 – 1824
6th Baron Fr (22 January 1788 – 19
April 1824), commonly known simply
as Lord Byron, was a British poet,
peer, politician, and a leading figure in
the Romantic movement. ... He died in
1824 at the age of 36 from a fever
contracted while in Missolonghi

18. Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Tennyson was born in England. He was born into
a middle-class line of Tennysons, but also had a
noble and noble stock. His father, George Clayton
Tennyson (1778–1831), was rector of Somersby
(1807–1831), also rector of (1802–1831) and
vicar of (1815). Rev. George Clayton Tennyson
raised a large family and "was a man of superior
abilities and varied attainments, who tried his
hand with fair success in architecture, painting,
music, and poetry:

19. Robert Browning 1812 – 1889
(7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English
poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic
monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian
poets.
4works.
 The Patriot
 The Last Ride Together
 Memorabilia
 Cleon
 How It Strikes a Contemporary
 The Statue and the Bust
 A Grammarian's Funeral

20. Matthew Arnold 1822 – 1888
(24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet
and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.
He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed
headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both
Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William
Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.
Mojer works
The study of poetry : 1880
The function of criticism : 1884
Sohrab and Rustam : 1883

21. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, England in 1840.
As a novelist he is best known for his work set in the
semi-fictionalized county of Wessex including, Tess of
the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. He was also an
accomplished poet. Hardy died in 1928.
Mojar works
 The return of the native : 1878
 Under the greenwood tree : 1872
 The poor man and the lady :1867

22. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
eline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January
1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and
one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth
century.
works
Mrs. Dalloway : 1925
Night and day :1919
To the lighthouse : 1927
The year :1937
Between the acts : 1941

23. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
George Bernard Shaw, (born July 26, 1856,
Dublin, Ire.—died Nov. 2, 1950, Ayot St.
Lawrence, Hertfordshire, Eng.), Irish comic
dramatist, literary critic, and socialist
propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1925.:

24. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February
1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist,
short story writer, and poet. He contributed to
the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as
one of the most influential and important
authors of the 20th century.
Major work
 The dead :1914
 Araby :1914
 Eveline : 1904
 The Little :1898
 The sisters : 1915

25. Thomas Stern Eliot 1888 – 1965
Thomas Stearns Eliot On (26 September 1888
4 January 1965) was a British essayist, publisher,
playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of
the twentieth century's major poets". He moved
from his native United States to England in 1914
at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying
there.
 The Waste Land (1922)
 The Hollow Men (1925)
 Ariel Poems (1927–1954)
 Journey of the Magi (1927)
 A Song for Simeon (1928)

26. John Donne 1572 – 1632
John Donne was born on January 22, 1572, in
London, England. He is known as the founder of
the Metaphysical Poets, a term created by Samuel
Johnson, an eighteenth-century English essayist,
poet, and philosopher.
Work
 The air and angels :
 Poem and prose :
 Metaphysical poetry :

27. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633)
was a Welsh-born poet, orator and Anglican
priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the
writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is
recognized as "one of the foremost British
devotional lyricists.“

28. Richard Crashaw 1612 – 1649
Richard Crashaw ( 1613 – 21 August 1649), was an
English poet, teacher, Anglican cleric and Catholic convert,
who was among the major figures associated with the
metaphysical poets in seventeenth-century English
literature.
Major works
 On the Water of our Lord's Baptism
 On the Baptized Ethiopian
 On the Miracle of multiplied Loaves
 On the Sepulchre of our Lord
 The Widow's Mites
 On the Prodigal