Father of modern English poetry
Jeoffrey Chaucer



Modern poet
T.S. Eliot
Born in U.S.A.


The Wasteland (Poem)



First known poet
Caedman
Genesis



Poet of Romantic age
John Keats
A man of Medicine / Poet of beauty / Poet of Sensuousness


Ode to a Nightingale


“A thing of beauty is a joy for even”


“Beauty is the truth, truth is the beauty”



Father of English prose
Francis Bacon
Essayist




Shakespeare
Known mostly for his poet


Comedy of Errors


The Merchant of Vanice (comedy)


Hamlet (tragedy)


As you like it


The taming of shrew
Greatest Modern English Dramatist
G.B Show
“The more things a man is ashamed of the more respectable he is”


“God is on the side of big battalions”


Caeser and Cleopetra(Play)


Playwriter




S.T. Coleridge
The rime of the Ancient Mariner


“He prayeth best who loveth best’




O’Henry
Famous for short story


The gift of Magie




Jonathon Swift
Gulliver’s Travel


Famous satirist in English literature




Charles Dickens
A tale of two cities(Nobel)


David copper field




Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species