English authors
London literary figures
Writers of literature who are English by nationality or who write in the English literary tradition.
The phrase typically refers to canonical figures like Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, and the Brontës, though it encompasses anyone from England who produces written works.
The course covers English authors from Chaucer to Zadie Smith.
Distinguished from "authors in English," which includes writers of any nationality working in the language.
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- VictorianOf a prim era
- social critiqueExamination of societal problems
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
poetry · literary canon · novels · Chaucer · Woolf · allegory · romance · Hardy · drama · Brontë · country house · Milton · Orwell · sonnet · satire · essays · colonialism · British Empire
- author groups
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- English litliterary analysis, literary theory, poetry analysis, literary history, literary movements
English authorsAmerican authors
Literary creators from America
French authors · Russian authors · German authors · Japanese authors · Chinese authors
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