A list of dramatists, poets, novelists, essayists, woman writers and critics

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Important Authors and their Works

Authors	Origin & Type	Works
Adlof Hitler	German Fiejrer	Mein Kamf
Aeschylus	Father of Greek Tragedy	Prometheos Bound, Agamemnon
Alexander Pope	English Poet and Satirist	The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad
Alfred Tennyson	English Poet	In Memoriam, The Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the King, Ulysses
Andrew Marvell	English Poet	The Garden, To His Coy Mistress
Aristophanes	Greek Poet and Playwright	The Peace, The Clouds, Frogs
Aristotle	Greek Philosopher	Poetics; Politics
Ben Jonson	English Poet and Dramatist	Volpone, Everyman in His Humour
Bertrand Russel	British Philosopher	Marriage and Morals, The Impact of Science upon Society
Charles Darwin	English Writer	Origin of Species, Descent of Man
Charles Dickens	English Novelist	The Pickwick Paper, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations
Charlotte Bronte	British Novelist	Jane Eyre, Professor, Shirley
Christopher Marlowe	British Dramatist of Elizabethan Age	Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine
D. H. Lawrence	English Novelist and Poet	Lady Chatterley's Lover
Daniel Defoe	English Journalist and Novelist	Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
Dante	Italian Poet	La Divina Comedia
Dr. Samuel Johnson	English Lexicographer and Writer	Vanity of the Human Wishes, Dictionary
Dylan Thomas	English Poet and Journalist	Under Milk Wood, Eighteen Poems
E. M. Forster	English Novelist	A Passage to India, Longest Journey
Edger Allan Poe	American short story writer	The Raven
Francis Bacon	English Philosopher and Essayist	Novum Organum, Essays
Geoffrey Chaucer	Father of English Poetry	Canterbury Tales, The Legend of Good Women
George Bernard Shaw	Irish Dramatist and Critic	Man and Superman, Candida [36th BCS), Apple Cart, Arms and the Man [35th BCS), Saint Joan
George Eliot	Author	Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marmer
George Orwell	George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty Four, Animal Farm
H. G. Wells	English Science Fiction Writer	The Time Machine, The Invisible Man
H. W. Longfellow	American Poet	A Psalm of Life
Henry Fielding	English Novelist	Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
Homer	Greek Epic Poet	Odessey, Iliad
James Henry Leigh Hunt	English Poet, Politician and Essayist	Abu Ben Adhen
Jane Austen	English Woman Novelist	Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
John Bunyan	English Prose Writer	The Pilgrim's Progress
John Milton	English Poet	Samson Agonistes, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regaineć
John Webster	English Playwright	The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi
Karl Marx	German Philosopher and Economist	Das Capital, Communist Manifesto
Leo Tolstoy	Russian Author	War and Peace
Lord Byron	Romantic Poet/Rebel Poet	Don Juan
Matthew Arnold	English Poet and Critic	Sohrab and Rustum, The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach
Maxim Gorky	Russian Author	Mother, My Childhood
Mrs. Virginia Woolf	English Novelist	Night and Day, A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway
Oliver Goldsmith	Irish Writer, Poet, Novelist and Playwright	The Vicar of Wakefield
Oscar Wilde	English Poet and Novelist	An Ideal Husband
P. B. Shelley	English Poet	Adonias; Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark
Robert Frost	American Poet	West Running Brook
Robert Herrick	English Poet	Hesperides, To Daffodils
Robert Louis Stevenson	Scottish Author and Poet	Kidnapped; Treasure Island
Rudyard Kipling	English poet and Novelist	The Jungle Book, Kim
S. T. Coleridge	English Poet	Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria
Samuel Butler	English Author	The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Johnson	English Writer	The Vanity of Human Wishes
Saul Bellow	American Novelist (Born in Canada)	Seize the Day
William Shakespeare	Greatest English poet and dramatist	Macbeth, Hamlet, As You Like It, etc.
Sigmund Freud	Austrian Founder of Psycho-Analysis	Delusion and Dream
Sir Arthur C. Doyle	English Novelist	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Philip Sidney	English Soldier and Poet	Apology for Poetry
Sir Winston Churchill	Politician of England	The Gathering Strom; The Second World War
T. S. Eliot	English Poet and Playwright	Murder in the Cathedral
Thomas Carlyle	English Writer	Past and President
Thomas Gray	English Poet	Ode to Adversity
Thomas Hardy	Novelist	The Mayor Casterbridge
Thomas Kyd	Playwright	The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Moore	Irish Poet	The Epicurean, The Minstrel Boy, The La Rose of Summer
W. B. Yeats	Irish Poet and Dramatist	The Tower, Isle of Innisfree [35th BCS]
William Blake	English Poet	Songs of Experience; Songs of Innocence
William Faulkner	American Novelist	Light in August
William Langland	Prose Writer	Piers Plowman
W. Makepeace Thackeray	English Novelist	Henry Esmond; Vanity Fair
William Wordsworth	English poet	Lyrical Ballads [36th BCS); The Prelude; The Daffodils, Michael, Tintern Abbey

Important Works and Their Authors

Works	Type	Authors
A Brief History of Time	History	Stephen W. Hawking
A Doll's House	Social Drama	Henrik Ibsen
A Farewell to Arms	Novel	Ernest Hemingway
A Haunted House	Novel	Virginia Woolf
A Kiss for Cinderella	Play	J. M. Barrie
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy	William Shakespeare
A Passage to England	Novel	Nirad C. Chaudhuri
A Passage to India [36th BCS]	Novel	E. M. Forster
A Tale of Tub	A Satire on Extremist	Jonathan Swift
A Tale of Two Cities	Novel	Charles Dickens
A Woman of No Importance	Novel	Oscar Wilde
Adam Bede	Novel	George Eliot
Adonias	Poem (Elegy)	P. B. Shelley
Adventure of Sherlok Holmes	Thrill Story	Arther Conan Doyle
Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Travelogue	Mark Twain
Aeneid	Epic Poem	Virgil
Ain-i-Akbari	Law Book	Abul Fazal
Akbar Nama	Biography	Abul Fazal
All's Well that Ends Well	Comedy	Shakespeare
An Ideal Husband	Novel	Oscar Wilde
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Poem	S. T. Coleridge
Animal Farm	Novel	George Orwell
Anna Karenina	Novel	Leo Tolstoy
Antony and Cleopatra	Comedy	W. Shakespeare
Arabian Nights	Fairy Tales	Sir Richard Burton
Arms and the Man [36th BCS]	Play	G. B. Shaw
Around the World in Eighty	Novel	Jules Verne
Asian Drama	-	Gunnar Myrdal
Battle of the Books	Satire	Gunnar Myrdal
Biographia Literaria	Literary Criticism	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Break, Break, Break	Lyrical Poem	Tennyson
Canterbury Tales	Collection of Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer
Ceasar and Cleopatra	Play	G. B. Shaw
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Religious Poem	Lord Byron
Comedy of Errors	Comedy	W. Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment	Novel	Dostoevsky
Das Capital	Theory	Karl Marx
David Copperfield [36th BCS]	Novel	Charles Dickens
Divine Comedy	Poetical Work	Dante
Doctor's Dilemma	Play	G. B. Shaw
Don Juan	Epic Satire	Lord Byron
Emma	Novel	Jane Austen
Essay of Man	Poem	Alexander Pope
Fairie Queene	Allegorical Poem	Edmund Spenser
Far From Madding Crowd	Novel	Thomas Hardy
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Novel	Earnest Hemingway
French Revolution	Historical Work	Thomas Carlyle
God of Small Things	Novel	Arundhuty Roy
Great Expectations	Novel	Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels	Novel	Jonathan Swift
Hamlet	Tragedy	W. Shakespeare
Hard Times	Novel	Charles Dickens
Idylls of the King	Verse	Tennyson
Iliad	Epic	Homer
Importance of Being Earnest	Comedy	Oscar Wilde
In Memoriam	Verse	Tennyson
India Wins Freedom	Autobiography	Abul Kalam Azad
India Divided	Autobiography	Rajendra Prasad
Invisible Man	Novel	H. G. Wells
Isabella	Long verse	John Keats
Ivanhoe	Long verse	Walter Scott
Julius Caesar	Tragedy	William Shakespeare
Jungle Book	Fairy Tale	Rudyard Kipling
King Lear	Tragedy	William Shakespeare
Kubla Khan	Poem	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
La Divine Comedia	Verse	A. Dante
Lady Chatterly's Lover	Novel	D. H. Lawrence
Lady of the Lake	Novel	Sir Walter Scott
Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy	W. Shakespreare
Lycidas	Elegy	John Milton
Man and Superman	Drama	G. B. Shaw
Marriage and Morals	Essay	Bertrand Russell
Measure for Measure[36th BCS]	Comedy	W. Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice [36th BCS]	Comedy	W. Shakespeare
Middle March	Novel	George Eliot
Mill on the Floss	Novel	Grorge Eliot
Murder in Cathedral	Play	T. S. Eliot
New Arabian Nights	-	R. L. Stevenson
Ode to the West Wind	Poem	P. B. Shelley
Odyssey	Epic	Homer
Old Man and the Sea	Novel	Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Twist	Novel	Charles Dickens
One World and India	Historical Work	Arnold Toynbee
Origin of Species	Scientific Writing	Charles Darwin
Othello [35th BCS]	Tragedy	W. Shakespeare
Paradise Regained	Epic	John Milton
Pilgrim's Progress	Allegorical Novel	John Bunyan
Plays Pleasant and Plays Unpleasant	Collection of Plays	G. B. Shaw
Prelude	Verse	W. Wordsworth
Pride and Prejudice	Novel	Jane Austen
Prince	Political treatise	Machiavelli
Rape of the Lock	Mock Epic	Alexander Pope
Robinson Crusoe	Novel	Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy	Shakespeare
Satanic Verses	Ficticious Story	Salman Rushdie
Scholar Gipsy	Poem	Matthew Arnold
Sense and Sensibility	Novel	Jane Austen
Silent Woman	Drama	Ben Jonson
Sohrab and Rustum	Poem	Matthew Arnold
Sons and Lovers	Novel	D. H. Lawrence
Sound and the Fury	Novel	William Faulkner
St. Joan	Play	G. B. Shaw
The Tempest	Comedy	Shakespeare
Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Novel	Thomas Hardy
The Alchemist	Play	Ben Jonson
The Return of the Native [36th BCS]	Novel	Thomas Hardy
The Virginians	Essay	W. Makepeace Thackeray
Three Musketeers	Novel	Alexander Dumas
Time Machine	Science Fiction	H. G. Wells
To a Skylark	Verse	P. B. Shelley
Tom Jones	Novel	Henry Fielding
Tom Sawyer	Novel	Mark Twain
Top Secret	Novel	Henry Fielding
Travel With a Donkey	Travelogue	R. L. Stevenson
Treasure Island	Romance	R. L. Stevenson
Twelfth Night	Comedy	W. Shakespeare
Ulysses	Novel	James Joyce
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Novel	Mrs. Harriet Stowe
Utopia	Speculative Work	Sir Thomas More
Vanity Fair	Novel	W. M. Thackeray
Vicar of Wakefield	Novel	Oliver Goldsmith
Vision of Judgement	Poem	Lord Byron
Vision of Mirza	Allegory	Addison
Voyage to Lilliput	Satire	Jonathan Swift
War and Peace	Novel	Tolstoy
Waste Land	Poem	T. S. Eliot
Way of the World	Comedy	Congreve
Winter's Tale	Play	W. Shakespeare
Wuthering Heights	Novel	Emile Bronte

Special Titles of Some Literary Persons

Figures	Titles
Venerable Bede	Father of English learning
Alfred the Great	The founder of English prose
Chaucer	Father of English poetry
John Wycliffe	Father of English prose
Sir Thomas Wyatte	First sonneteer in English literature
William of Newbury	Father of historical criticism
Caedmon	First poet in English literature
Edmund Spenser	The poet of poets
William Shakespeare	Bard of Avon
John Donne	Poet of love/Metaphysical poet
John Milton	Epic poet/The great master of verse
John Milton	Father of English criticism
Alexander Pope	Mock heroic poet
Henry Fielding	Father of English novel
William Wordsworth [36th BCS]	Poet of Nature/Lake poet/Poet of children
S.T. Coleridge	Poet of Nature/Lake poet/Poet of children
Lord Byron	Rebel poet
P.B. Shelley	Revolutionary poet/Poet of hope and regeneration
John Keats	Poet of beauty
Willian Blake	Both poet and painter
George Bernard Shaw	The greatest modern dramatist and Psychiatrist.
Sigmund Freud	A great psycho-analysist and psychiatrist
Jane Austen	Anti-romantic in Romantic age
Francis Bacon	Father of English Essay
Lindley Murray	Father of English Grammar
Coleridge & Wordsworth	Father of Romanticism
Nicholas Udall	First English comedy writer
Christopher Marlowe	Father of English tragedy
James Joyce	Father of English stream of conscious novel
Edgar Allan Poe	Father of English mystery play
Samuel Johnson	Father of English one act play