1 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales 2 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Sonnet 3 Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Of Marriage and Single Life Of Studies 4 17th-Century British Poets John Donne (1572-1631) John Milton (1608-1674) 5 Adventure Fiction Writers Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 6 Romantic Poets (I) William Blake (1757-1827) Robert Burns (1759-1796) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 7 Jane Austen (1775-1817) Pride and Prejudice 8 Romantic Poets (II) George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) John Keats (1795-1821) 091 9 Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Jane Eyre 10 Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Great Expectations 11 Victorian Poets Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) Robert Browning (1812-1889) Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) 12 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Tess of the D'Urbervilles 13 Modern Dramatists Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 14 Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) The Lagoon 15 20th-Century British Poets (I) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) 180 William ButlerYeats (1865-1939) 16 Modernist Novelists (��) James Joyce (1882-1941) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 17 Modernist Novelists (��) D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 18 E.M. Forster (1879-1970) Howards End 19 William Golding (1911-1993) Lord of the Flies 20 Doris Lessing (1919-2013) A Woman on a Roof 21 John Fowles (1926-2005) The French Lieutenant's Woman 22 20th-Century British Poets (��) Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Philip Larkin (1922-1985) Ted Hughes (1930-1998) Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) 23 Antonia Susan Byatt (1936-) Rose-coloured Teacups 24 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-) A Bend in the River 25 Graham Swift (1949-) Our Nicky's Heart 26 Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-) The Remains of the Day 27 Ian McEwan (1948-) The Child in Time 28 Julian Barnes (1946-) A History of theWorld in 101/2 Chapters