Date of Birth and Date of Death Various Poets and Writers / Authors/ Novelists

 

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Jeffery Chaucer:

English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)

John Milton:

English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)

Pope:

English poet and satirist (1688-1744)

John Donne:

English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)

Sophocles:

One of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC)

Marlowe:

English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)

William Shakespeare:

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

Francis Bacon:

English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

J. Swift:

An English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)

Russell:

English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)

Plato:

Ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)

Aristotle:

One of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)

William Wordsworth:

A romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)

Matthew Arnold:

English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)

T S Eliot:

British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel Prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)

Dickens:

English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)

 George Eliot:

British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880)

Hardy:

English novelist and poet (1840-1928)

United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)

John Keats:

Englishman and romantic poet (1795-1821)

Percy Bysshe Shelley:

 Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822)

William Blake:

Visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)

Robert Browning:

English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)

Alfred Tennyson:

Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)

Robert Frost:

United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)

Sylvia Plath:

United States writer and poet (1932-1963)

Arthur Miller:

United States playwright (1915-2005)

Tony Morrison:

United States writer whose novels describe the lives of African-Americans (born in 1931)

Jacques Derrida:

 French philosopher and critic (born in Algeria); exponent of deconstructionism (1930-2004)

Karl Marx

Founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)

Adam Smith:

Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)

John Locke:

English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831)

Immanuel Kant:

Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)

Friedrich Engels:

Socialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895)

Adolf Hitler:

German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)

Nikolai Lenin:

Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR    (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (1870-1924)  (A former communist country in eastern Europe  and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991) 

Joseph Stalin:

Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)

Henrike Ibsen:

Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)

George Bernard Shaw: 

British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)

Harold Pinter:

English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930)

Samuel Beckett:

A playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theatre of the absurd (1906-1989)

William Butler Yeats:

 Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)

Ted Hughes:

English poet (born in 1930)

Albert Camus:

French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)

Hermann Hesse:

Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in eastern spiritual values (1877-1962)

Ivan Turgenev: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Russian writer of stories and novels and plays (1818-1883)

Joseph Conrad:  Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski

English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924)

Virginia Woolf: Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf

English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)

Arthur Conan Doyle:

British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien:

British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973)