English Literature Titles of important writers Periods of english literature A list of dramatists, poets, novelists, essayists, woman writers and critics The old english period (450-1066) Caedmon (ক্যাডমন) (657-680) Saint Venerable Bede (673-735) Cynewulf (770-840) King Alfred the Great (849-899) The middle english period (1066-1500) Dante (1265-1321) Sir John Mandeville (1300-1372) John Wycliffe (1324-1438) John Gower (1330-1408) William Langland (1332-1386) Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) John Lydgate (1370-1451) Sir Thomas Malory (1415-1471) William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460 - died 1530) The Renaissance (1500-1660) Preparation for Renaissance (1500-1558) Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Sir David Lindsey (1490-1555) Bishop Bale (1495-1563) John Heywood (1447-1540) Nicholas Udall (1504-1556) Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) William Stevenson (1530-1575) The Elizabethan Period (1558-1603) Thomas Norton (1532-1584) & Thomas Sackville (1536-1608) Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Edmund Spenser(1552-1599) Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Richard Hooker (1554-1600) Lohn Lyly (1554-1606) Robert Greene (1558-1592) Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) George Peele (1558-1598) Thomas Lodge (1558-1625) George Chapman (1559-1634) Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) Michael Drayton (1563-1631) Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) The Jacobean Period (1603-1625) John Donne (1572-1631) Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Cyril Tourneur (1575-1626) John Webster (1578-1626) The Caroline Period (1625-1649) Robert Herrick (1591-1674) George Herbert (1593-1633) The Commonwealth Period (1659-1660) Thomas Hobbies (1588-1679) John Milton (1608-1674) Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) Andrew Marvel (1621-1678) Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) The Neoclassical Period (1660-1798) The Restoration Period (1660-1700) Samuel Butler (1612-1680) John Bunyan (1628-1688) John Dryden (1631-1700) John Locke (1632-1704) William Wycherley (1640-1716) Thomas Otway (1652-1685) Nathaniel (1653-1692) George Farquhar (1678-1707) The Augustan Period : (1700-1745) Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Sir Vanbrugh (1664-1726) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) William Congreve (1670-1729) Richard Steele (1672-1729) Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) James Thomson (1700-1748) The Age of Sensibility (1745-1785/98) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Tomas Gray (1716-1771) Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Lindley Murray (1745-1826) William Blake (1757-1827) The Romantic Period (1798-1832) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Jane Austen (1775-1817) Lord Byron (1788-1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) John Keats (1795-1821) Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) The Victorian Period (1832-1901) Alexander Duman (1802-1870) John Stuart Mill (1806-1861) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Gladstone (1809-1898) William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Robert Browning (1812-1889) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Emily Bronte (1818-1848) Karl Marx (1818-1883) George Eliot (1819-1880) Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) Mathew Arnold (1822-1868) Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Mark Twain (1835-1910) Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) (টমাস হার্ডি) Gerard Manley Hopkin (1844-1889) Robert Louis Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Oscar wilde (1856-1900) Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Herman Melville (1819-1891) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) The Modern Period (1901-1939) The Edwardian Period (1901-1910) Jules Verne (1828-1905) Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Henry James (1843-1916) Robert Bridges (1844-1930) A.C. Bradley (1851-1935) George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) David Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) O’Henry (1862-1910) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) H.G Wells (1866-1946) Arnold Bennet (1867-1931) John Galsworthy (1867-1933) Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) John Millington Synge The Georgian Period (1910-1936) Walter de la Mare Robert Frost (1874-1963) William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) John Masefield (1878-1967) Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) John Drinkwater (1882-1937) James Joyce (1882-1941) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Ezra pound (1885-1972) Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) James Bridie (1888-1951) Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (1888-1953) T. S Eliot Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) Richard Aldington (1892-1962) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962) Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) Earnest Hemingway(1899-1961) Noel Coward (1899-1973) George Orwell (1903-1950) Evlin Waugh (1903-1966) Graham Green (1904-1991) Tean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) C.P. Snow (1905-1980) Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989) R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) William Gerald Golding (1911-1993) Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953) Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Arthur Miller (1915-2005) Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) Doris Lessing (1919-2013) Jimmy Carter (1924 - 2024) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) Gunter Grass (1927-2015) Noam Chomsky (1928- ) The Post Modern Period (1939-Present) John Osborne (1929-1994) Ted Hughes (1930-1998) Harold Pinter (1930-2008) Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931-August 5, 2019) Alice Ann Munro (born 10 July 1931-13 May 2024) Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Wole Soyinka (1934- ) Anita Desai (1937- ) Seamus Justin Heaney (1939-2013) Salman Rushdi (1947- ) Kaiser Hamidul Haq (1950- ) Orhan Pamuk (1952- ) Amitav Ghosh (1956- ) Arundhuty Roy(1961 - ) Dan Brown (1964 - ) J.K. Rowling (born 31 July 1965) Jhumpa Lahiri (1967 – ) Monika Ali (1967 – ) Kiran Desai (1971-) Aravind Adiga 1974 - ) Tahmima Anam (1975 - ) Famous books of different writers verse novel the rainbow Awards in literature (Noble & Booker Prize) Nicknames of various writers Poet Laureate বিভিন্ন দেশের জাতীয় কবি Elaboration of the name of some writers ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে বিখ্যাত মহাকাব্য (Epics) ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে বিখ্যাত শোককাব্য ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে বিখ্যাত বিভিন্ন চরিত্র ভিন্ন ভিন্ন লেখকের সমজাতীয় সাহিত্য সরকার কর্তৃক নিষিদ্ধকৃত গ্রন্থসমূহ ইংরেজি গল্পের বাংলা অনুবাদ বাংলা গল্পের ইংরেজি অনুবাদ Bangladesh writers in english Indian writers in english Italian writers in english(Translation) Russian writers in english Irish writers in english Scottish writers in english American writers in english Prominent Greek writers and their works Prominent Roman writers and their works Literary terms and genres Epic Simile Metaphor alliteration Climax Personification Hyperbole Limerick Soliloquy Blank Verse Elegy Sonnet Comedy Play Tragedy play Melodrama play Protagonist Homonyms Homophones Monologue Diction Free verse Satire tragedy Revenge Tragedy Machiavellian Character Digression Eulogy Onomatopoeia Allegory Euphemism Paradox Oxymoron Pun Epilogue Ballad Dirge Quotations Important Quotations from different disciplines theme of some important literary pieces Ancient Mariner Miscellaneous English Grammar Parts of Speech The Noun Proper Noun Common Noun Collective Noun Material Noun Abstract Noun Countable Noun Uncountable Noun Compound noun The Determiner The Pronoun Personal Pronouns Possessive Pronouns Reflexive Pronouns Intensive Pronouns Relative Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns Object Pronouns Distributive Pronoun Reciprocal Pronoun The Verb Finite Verb Principal Verb Transitive Verb Intransitive Verb Auxiliary Verb Primary/ Principal Auxiliary Modal/ Secondary Auxiliary Non-finite Verb Participles Present Participle Past Participle Perfect Participle Infinitives Gerund Linking Verb Phrasal Verb Modals State/Stative verb Event/Action/Dynamic verb Semi-modals Cognate Verb Causative Verb Factitive Verb Quasi-passive Reciprocal Verb Reflexive verb Impersonal verb Inchoative verb Regular/Weak Verb Irregular/Strong Verb Weak Verb Strong Verb Ergative Verb Lexical Verb Delexical Verb Non-continuous Verb Group verb The Adjective Descriptive Adjectives Quantitative Adjectives Proper Adjectives Demonstrative Adjectives Possessive Adjectives Interrogative Adjectives Indefinite Adjectives Compound Adjectives Distributive Adjectives The Adverb Simple Adverb Adverb of Manner Adverb of Time Adverb of Place Adverb of Frequency/Number Adverb of Degree Quantity Adverb of Reason (Cause & Effect) Adverb of Order Adverb of Assertion & Negation Interrogative Adverb Relative Adverb The Preposition Simple Preposition Double Preposition Compound Preposition Participle Preposition Disguised Preposition Detached Preposition Prepositions of Time Prepositions of Place and Direction Prepositions of Agents or Things Phrasal Prepositions Appropriate Preposition The Conjunction Coordinating Conjunctions Correlative Conjunctions Subordinating Conjunctions Compound Conjunction Adverbial Conjunction The Interjection Primary Interjection Secondary Interjection Mild Interjection Strong Interjection Volitive Interjection Emotive Interjection Cognitive Interjection The Gender Masculine Gender Feminine Gender Common Gender Neuter Gender The Number Singular Number Plural Number Articles Idioms & Phrases phrase Noun Phrase Adjective Phrase Verbal Phrase Adverbial Phrase Prepositional Phrase Conjunctional Phrase Interjectional Phrase Infinitive phrase Participle phrase Absolute Phrase Appositive Phrase Gerund Phrase Foreign Phrases Idiom The Clauses Principal clause Subordinate clause Noun clause Adjective clause/ Relative clause Defining/Restrictive relative clause Non-Defining/Non-Restrictive relative clause Adverbial clause Adverbial clause of Time Adverbial clause of Place Adverbial clause of Reason Adverbial clause of Effect Adverbial clause of Purpose Adverbial clause of condition Adverbial clause of manner Adverbial clause of Comparison Adverbial clause of Concession Co-ordinate clause Corrections Subject-Verb Agreement The Number-Correction The Tense (Corrections) The Verb (Corrections) Complement of Verb The Determiner (Corrections) Conditional Sentence (Corrections) Punctuation (Corrections) Parallelism (Corrections) Sentences & Transformations Sentence and Kind of Sentences Assertive Sentence Interrogative Sentence Imperative Sentence Optative Sentence Exclamatory Sentence Simple Sentence Complex Sentence Compound Sentence Transformation of sentences Affirmative Sentence Negative Sentence Affirmative to Negative Assertive to Interrogative Exclamatory to Assertive Simple, Complex & Compound Voice Passive voice Active Voice Degree of Comparison Superlative Degree Comparative Degree Positive Degree Question Tags Narration Indirect Narration Direct Narration Translation Synonym and Antonym Synonyms Antonyms words Spellings Formation of New Words by Adding Prefixes and Suffixes Prefix Suffix Meanings of Word Substitutions Expressions Definition of Words Tense Present Tense Present Indefinite Tense Present Continuous Tense Present Perfect Tense Uses of Since and For Uses of After and Before Present Perfect Continuous Tense Past Tense Past Indefinite Tense Past Continuous Tense Past Perfect Tense Past Perfect Continuous Tense Future Tense Future Indefinite Tense Future Continuous Tense Future Perfect Tense Future Perfect Continuous Tense Past Form Right Form of Verbs Sentence Completion Tag Questions Inversion Affirmative and Negative Agreement Affirmative Agreement Negative Agreement Modifiers Conditional Sentences First Conditional Second Conditional Third Conditional Zero Conditional Pin Point Error Redundancy Analogy Translation Proverbs Embedded Questions Pair of Words Reading Comprehension Parallelism Miscellaneous Consonent vowel Subjunctive consonant