Influential English-Language Authors

Notable poets, novelists, and playwrights who shaped English literature from the Romantic period to contemporary times.

Agatha Christie


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Edwin Morgan


Emily Dickinson


Jackie Kay


Liz Lochhead


Lord Byron


Percy Bysshe Shelley


Philip Larkin


Rupert Brooke


Sherlock Holmes


Simon Armitage


Thomas Hardy


William Blake