Cult Lit 1-5 (Authors)

William Shakespeare

A 16th century English author known for notable works such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, and Julius Caesar.

Robert Herrick

An 17th century English author known for the notable work To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.

Andrew Marvell

An 17th century English author known for the notable work To His Coy Mistress.

Thomas Gray

An 17th century English author known for the notable work Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An author technically from the late 18th century, sometimes taught alongside 17th-century figures for style.

Alexander Pope

English 18th century author known for The Rape of the Lock and An Essay on Man.

Jonathan Swift

Irish 18th century author famous for Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal.

James Boswell

Scottish 18th century author recognized for Life of Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Johnson

English 18th century author known for A Dictionary of the English Language.

Jane Austen

English 19th Century author known for Pride and Prejudice and Emma.

Charlotte Brontë

English 19th Century author known for Jane Eyre.

Emily Brontë

English 19th Century author known for Wuthering Heights.

Charles Dickens

English 19th Century author known for A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and David Copperfield.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

English 19th Century author known for Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Robert Browning

English 19th Century author known for Andrea del Sarto and the quote 'A man's reach should exceed his grasp…'.

John Keats

English 19th Century author known for Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale.

William Wordsworth

English 19th Century author known for Daffodils and The Prelude.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English 19th Century author known for Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)

English 19th Century author known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

English 19th Century author known for The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Thomas Hardy

English 19th Century author known for Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Oscar Wilde

Irish 19th Century author known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish 19th Century author known for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island.

Joseph Conrad

Polish-British 19th Century author known for Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Scottish 19th Century author known for the Sherlock Holmes series.

Bram Stoker

Irish 19th Century author known for Dracula.

A.A. Milne

English 20th Century author known for Winnie the Pooh.

P.G. Wodehouse

English 20th Century author known for Jeeves stories.

Agatha Christie

English 20th Century author known for Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None.

Virginia Woolf

English 20th Century author known for To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own.

D.H. Lawrence

English 20th Century author known for Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Aldous Huxley

English 20th Century author known for Brave New World.

George Orwell (Eric Blair)

English 20th Century author known for 1984 and Animal Farm.

Dylan Thomas

Welsh 20th Century author known for Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.

James Hilton

English 20th Century author known for Lost Horizon (Shangri-La).

John McCrae

Canadian 20th Century author known for In Flanders Fields.