Écrivains anglais par genres et formes littéraires
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La poésie anglaise
La poésie anglo-saxonne (650 - 1066)
De la conquête normande à Chaucer (1066 - 1350)
- John Glover (1330? - 1408
- William Langland (1330? - 1400?)
- Sire Gauvain et le chevalier vert (v.1360/1370
- Geoffrey Chaucer (v.1340 - 1400)
Le XVe siècle
- John Lydgate (v.1370 - v.1451)
- Thomas Occleve (v.1370 - v.1450)
- John Skelton (v.1460 - 1529)
- Alexandre Barclay (1474 - 1552
- Les poètes écossais
- Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 1542)
- Henry Howard, comte de Surrey (1517 - 1547)
- Thomas Sackville (1536 - 1608)
- George Gascoigne (v.1525 - 1577
- Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- Edmund Spencer (1552 - 1599)
- Les poètes élisabéthains
- Les poètes érotiques
- Les poètes moralistes
- La génération jacobienne
Le XVIIe siècle
- Thomas Carew (v.1598 - 1639)
- Les poètes cavaliers
- Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
- Les poètes anglicans et Catholiques
- Les poètes puritains
- Les précurseurs des classiques
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Le XVIIIe siècle
- La poésie classique
- La poésie de sentiment
- Anne Finck, comtesse de Winchilsea (1661 - 1720)
- Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748)
- James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
- John Dyer (1699 - 1757)
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- William Collins (1721 - 1759)
- Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771
- William Shenstone (1714 - 1793)
- Mark Akenside (1721 - 1770)
- Le préromantisme (1770 - 1798)
- Christopher Anstey (1724 - 1805)
- William Mason (1724 - 1797)
- James Beattie (1735 - 1803
- James Macpherson, dit Ossian (1736 - 1796)
- Thomas Percy (1729 - 1811)
- Thomas Chatterton (1752 - 1770)
- George Crabbe (1754 - 1832)
- William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
- William Lisle Bowles (1792 - 1850)
- Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- Thomas Campbell (1777 - 1844)
- Erasmus Darwin (1731 - 1802)
- John Wolcot, dit Peter Pindar (1738 - 1819)
- Robert Bloomfield (1766 - 1823)
- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
- George Gordon, lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- John Keats (1795 - 1821
- Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
- Samuel Rogers (1763 - 1855)
- La réaction idéaliste
- La poésie victorienne
- Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849)
- George Darley (1795 - 1846)
- Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845)
- Ebenezer Elliot (1781 - 1849)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
- William Morris (1834 - 1896)
- Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
- Coventry Patmore (1823 - 1896)
- Elizabeth Barrett (1806 - 1861)
- Philip James Bailey (1816 - 1902)
- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 1861)
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Le Réalisme
- La révolte contre le mécanisme
- Le nouveau romantisme
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
- George Moore (1852 - 1933)
- Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1856 - 1900)
- John Davidson (1857 - 1909)
- Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
- Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
- William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
- George William Russel, dit A.E. (1867 - 1935)
- Alice Meynell (1850 - 1922)
- Les doctrines d'action
- William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
Le XXe siècle
- Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840 - 1922)
- Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
- Herbert Trench (1843 - 1926)
- Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930)
- Edmund Gosse (1849 - 1928)
- Margaret Louise Woods (1856 - 1945)
- Lascelles Abercrombie (1881 - 1938)
- Edmund Blanden (1896 -
- Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915)
- Robert Graves (1895 -
- Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956)
- Thomas Sturge Moore (1870 - 1946)
- Edwin Muir (1887 - 1959)
- William Owen (1893 - 1918)
- Herbert Read (1893 - 1968)
- James Reeves (1909 -
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886 -
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- Osbert Sitwell (1892 -
- Sachaverell Sitwell (1897 -
- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 -
- Cecil Day Lewis (1904 -
- Stephen Spender (1909 -
- Louis Mac Neice (1907 - 1963)
- William Empton (1906 -
- Kathleen Raine (1908 -
- L'après 1945
- John Heath-Stubbs (1918 -
- John Holloway (1920 -
- Norman Maccaig (1910 -
- Laurence Whistler (1924 -
- Charles Tomlinson (1927 -
- Anne Ridler (1912 -
- Patrick Dickinson (1914 -
- Robin Skelton (1925 -
- Patricia Beer (1924 -
- Thomas Blackburn (1916 -
- Thom Gunn (1929 -
- Alexander Scott (1920 -
- Sidney Tremayne (1912 -
Le théâtre anglais
Avant la Renaissance
- John Skelton (v.1440 - 1529
- David Lindsay (v.1485 - v.1555
- John Bale (1495 - 1593)
- John Keywood (v.1497 - v.1580
- Nicholas Udall (1506 - 1556)
- William Stevenson (? - v.1575
- Richard Edwards (v1522 - 1566)
- George Gascoigne (v.1525 - 1577
- Thomas Norton (1532 - 1584
- Thomas Sackville (1536 - 1608)
- George Whetstone (v.1544 - 1582)
La Renaissance
- John Lyly (v.1554 - 1606)
- George Peele (1558 - 1598)
- Thomas Kyd (1558 - 1594)
- Robert Greene (v.1560 - 1592)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- George Chapman (v.1559 - 1634)
- Ben Jonson (v.1572 - 1637)
- John Marston (v.1575 - v.1634)
- Thomas Dekker (v.1570 - 1632)
- Thomas Heywood (v.1574 - 1641)
- Thomas Middleton (v.1580 - 1627)
- William Rowley (1585 - 1642)
- Cyril Tourneur (v.1575 - 1626)
- John Webster (v.1575 - v.1625)
- John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
- Philip Massinger (1583 - 1640)
- Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616)
- John Ford (1586 - v.1639)
- Richard Brome (? - 1652)
- James Shirley (1596 - 1666)
- Henry Chettle (v.1560 - v.1607)
- Barbabe Barnes (v.1569 - 1609)
- John Day (1574 - v.1640)
- William Haughton (v.1575 - 1605)
- Thomas Randilph (1603 - 1635)
- William Davenant (1606 - 1668)
- John Suckling (1609 - 1642)
- Thomas Killigrew (1612 - 1683)
Le XVIIe siècle
- La Restauration
- La Transition
Le XVIIIe et le XIXe siècle
- Le Classicisme
- Nicholas Rowe (1674 - 1718)
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757)
- Rihard Steele (1672 - 1729)
- Aaron Hill (1685 - 1750)
- George Lillo (1693 - 1739)
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- Edward Moore (1712 - 1757)
- David Garrick (1717 - 1779)
- John Home (1722 - 1808)
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
- George Colman the Elder (1732 - 1794)
- Richard Cumberland (1732 - 1811)
- Hugh Kelly (1739 - 1777
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
- Thomas Holcroft (1745 - 1809)
- Hannah More (1745 - 1833)
- Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 - 1934)
Le XXe siècle
- Harley Granville Barker (1877 - 1946)
- John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)
- John Hankin (1869 - 1909)
- William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- James Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- John Millington Synge (1871 - 1909)
- Sean O'Casey (1880 - 1964)
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
- John Drinkwater (1882 - 1937)
- John Masefield (1878 -
- Stephen Philipps (1868 - 1915)
- O.H. Manor, dit James Bridie (1885 - 1951)
- Noël Coward (1899 -
- John Boynton Priestley (1894 -
- Terence Rattigan (1911 -
- Peter Shaffer (1925 -
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- John Van Druten (1901 - 1957)
- Ronald Duncan (1914 -
- Norman Nicholson (1914 -
- Charles Williams (1886 - 1945)
- Christopher Isherwood (1906 - 1986)
- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 -
- Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- Christopher Fry (1907 -
- L'après 1945
- John Arden (1930
- Samuel Beckett (1906 -
- John Bowen (1924 -
- Brigid Brophy (1929 -
- David Campton (1924 -
- Shelagh Delaney (1939 -
- William Golding (1911 -
- Graham Greene (] -
- Anne Jellicoe (1928 -
- Bernard Kops (1928 -
- Doris Lessing (1919 -
- Henry Livings (1929 -
- Charles Morgan (1894 - 1958)
- John Mortimer (1923 -
- Edna O'Brien (1932 -
- John Osborne (1929 -
- Alun Owenc (1926 -
- Harold Pinter (1930 -
- James Saunders (1925 -
- Muriel Spark (1918 -
- David Storey (1933 -
- Arnold Wesker (1932 -
- John Withing (1917 - 1963)
- Angus Wilson (1913 -
Les prosateurs anglais
Au XVe siècle
Au XVIe siècle
- Les humanistes
- La Réforme
- John Lyly (v.1554 - 1606)
- Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- Robert Greene (v.1560 - 1592)
- Thomas Lodge (v.1558 - 1625)
- Thomas Nashe (1567 - (v.1601)
- Thomas Delonay (v.1543 - 1600)
- Thomas Dekker (v.1572 - v.1632)
- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Robert Burton (1577 - 1640)
Au XVIIe siècle
- Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- Richard Baxter (1615 - 1691)
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- Thomas Urquhart (1611 - v.1660)
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Isaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- Kenelm Digby (1603 - 1665)
- James Harrington (1611 - 1677)
- William Temple (1628 - 1699)
- Abraham Cowley (1618 - 1667)
- John Evelyn (1620 - 1706)
- Edward Hyde comte de Clarendon (1608 - 1674)
- Gilbert Burnet (1643 - 1715)
- Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677)
- John Tillotson (1630 - 1694)
- Robert South (1634 - 1716)
- John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
- Thomas Ellwood (1639 - 1713)
- George Fox (1624 - 1691)
Au XVIIIe siècle
- La littérature bourgeoise
- Le classicisme
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Le roman sentimental
- Le réalisme
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- Tobias George Smollett (1721 - 1771)
- Le roman pré-romantique
- Les tempéraments classiques
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- Frances d'Arbley, dite Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840)
Au XIXe siècle
- Le romantisme
- Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
- Catherine Grace Frances Gore (1799 - 1861)
- Mary Russel Mitford (1787 - 1855)
- Charles Robert Maturin (1782 - 1824
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
- John Galt (1779 - 1839)
- Theodore Edward Hook (1788 - 1841)
- Frederik Marryat (1792 - 1848)
- James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785 - 1866)
- Le roman social
- Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson (1810 - 1866)
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
- John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
- Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
- Anne Brontë (1819 - 1875)
- Le réalisme
- Idéalisme et pessimisme
- Le néo-romantisme
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
- Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Alexander William Kinglake (1809 - 1891)
- George Henry Borrow (1803 - 1881)
- Richard Doddrige Blackmore (1825 - 1900)
- Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834 - 1903)
- Lafcadio Hearn (1850 - 1904)
- Richard Jefferies (1848 - 1887)
- Walter Horatio Pater (1839 - 1894)
- Oscar Fingall O'Flaherty Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- William Carleton (1794 - 1869)
- Samuel Lover (1797 - 1868)
- Charles James Lever (1806 - 1872)
- George Moore (1852 - 1933)
- Socialisme
Au XXe siècle
- Rhoda Broughton (1840 - 1920)
- William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922
- William Hurrell Mallock (1849 - 1929)
- Ian Maclaren (1850 – 1907)
- Mary Arnold (1851 - 1920)
- Mary Saint-Leger Harrison, dite Lucas Mallet (1852 - 1931)
- Sarah Grand (1854 - 1943)
- Mrs.Cronwright-Schreiner, dite Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
- Henry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925)
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, dit Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927)
- Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861 - 1923)
- Eden Phillpotts (1862 - 1960)
- Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863 - 1933)
- Arthur Morrison (1863 - 1945)
- May Sinclair (1863 - 1946)
- Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947)
- Israël Zangwill (1864 - 1926)
- Léonard Merrick (1864 - 1939)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946)
- Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)
- John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)
- Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953)
- John Cowper Powys (1872 - 1963)
- John Davys Beresford (1873 - 1947)
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Maurice Baring (1874 - 1945)
- William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Theodore Francis Powys (1875 - 1953)
- Alfred Edgar Coppard (1878 — 1957)
- Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970)
- Mary Webb (1881 - 1927)
- Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
- James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
- Ralph Hale Mottram (1883 - 1971
- Compton Mackenzie (1883 -1972)
- Llewelyn Powys (1884 - 1939)
- Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941)
- Francis Brett Young (1884 - 1954)
- Percy Wyndham Lewis (1884 - 1957)
- Frank Swinnerton (1884 - 1982)
- David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Thomas Edward Lawrence (dit « Lawrence d'Arabie ») (1888 - 1935)
- Joyce Cary (1888 - 1957)
- Stephen McKenna (1888 - 1967)
- Katherine Mansfield (1889 - 1923)
- Rose Macaulay (1889 - 1958)
- Agatha Christie ou (Mary Westmacott) (1891 - 1976)
- Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892 — 1969)
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
- David Garnett (1892 — 1981)
- Rebecca West (1892 — 1983)
- Dorothy Whipple (1893 - 1966)
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- John Boynton Priestley (1894 — 1984)
- Leslie Poles Hartley (1895 - 1972)
- Margaret Kennedy (1896 - 1967)
- Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981)
- Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Nevil Shute (1899 - 1960)
- Cecil Scott Forester (1899 - 1966)
- Antonia White (1899 - 1980)
- Richard Hughes (1900 - 1976)
- Elizabeth Goudge (1900 - 1984)
- Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900 - 1997)
- Rosamund Lehmann (1901 - 1990)
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- John Beynon Harris, dit John Wyndham (1903 - 1969)
- Christopher Isherwood (1904 - 1986)
- Graham Greene (1904 - 1991)
- Henry Vincent Yorke dit Henry Green (1905 - 1973)
- Herbert Ernest Bates (1905 - 1974)
- Charles Percy Snow (1905 - 1980)
- Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
- Rex Warner (1905 - 1986)
- Anthony Powell (1905 - 2000)
- James Hadley Chase (1906 - 1985)
- Nigel Balchin (1908 - 1970)
- Malcolm Lowry (1909 - 1957)
- Nicholas Monsarrat (1910 - 1979)
- William Cooper (1910 -
- William Golding (1911 - 1993)
- Rayner Heppenstall (1911 -
- William Sansom (1912 - 1976)
- Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990)
- Colin MacInnes (1914 - 1976)
- Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
- Monica Dickens (1915 -
- Augus Wilson (1915 -
- Gerald Hanley (1916 -
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
- Arthur Charles Clarke (1917 -
- Percy Howard Newby (1918 -
- Muriel Spark (1918 -
- Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
- Doris Lessing (1919 -
- Phyllis Dorothy James, dite P.D.James (1920 -
- John Braine (1922 - 1986)
- Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)
- Francis King (1923 -
- John Bowen (1924 -
- Desmont Stewart (1924 -
- John Wain (1925 - 1994)
- Christine Brooke-Rose (1926 -
- John Fowles (1926 -
- Thomas Hinde (1926 -
- Robert Shaw (1927 - 1978)
- Alan Sillitoe (1928 -
- Brigid Brophy (1929 -
- Shirley Hazzard (1931 -
- David John Moore Cornwell, dit John Le Carré (1931 -
- Fay Weldon (1931 -
- Colin Wilson (1931 -
- Edna O'Brien (1932 -
- Michel Frayn (1933 -
- David Storey (1933 -
- Andrew Sinclair (1935 -
- Margaret Drabble (1939 -
- Marina Warner (1946 -
- Susan Wicks (1947 -
- Robert Holdstock (1948 -
- Kate Atkinson (1951 -
- William Boyd (1952 -
- Anthony Horowitz (1955 -
- Jeanette Winterson (1959 -
- Andrew O'Hagan (1968 -
Les historiens anglais
- Edward Hyde Clarendon (1609 - 1674)
- Gilbert Burnet (1643 - 1715)
- David Hume (1711 - 1776)
- William Robertson (1721 - 1793
- Tobias George Smollett (1721 - 1771)
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
- William Godwin (1756 - 1836)
- Henry Hallam (1777 - 1859)
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
- James Anthony Froude (1818 - 1894
- Henry Thomas Buckle (1821 - 1862)
- Edward Augustus Freeman (1823 - 1892)
- William Stubbs (1825 - 1901)
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829 - 1902)
- John Richard Green (1837 - 1883)
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838 - 1903)
La critique de langue anglaise
- Thomas Lodge (v.1557 - 1625)
- Samuel Daniel (v.1562 - 1619)
- John Dennis (1657 - 1734)
- Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742)
- John Arbuthnot (1667 - 1735)
- Bernard Mandeville (1670 - 1733)
- Henry Saint-John (1678 - 1751)
- Joseph Butler (1692 - 1752)
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830
- James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Essayistes, épistoliers et moralistes
- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- William Temple (1628 - 1699)
- David Hume (1711 - 1776)
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766 - 1834)
- Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859)
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)
- Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)