English literature is very rich in its subjects, writings, poetry, prose, dramas, plays, comics, books for children and so many other things. Almost everyone in the world is aware of the name of English playwright Shakespeare, who is no doubt a great writer in English history.

Here a list of top English writers in the history of English Literature is being shared according to some facts, as the number books written or sold of a writer, awards and other things.

Top 06 English Writers in the History of English Literature

Jane Austen 1775-1817

Jane Austen was an English novelist. She was born on 16th December 1775 and died on 18th July 1817. She is well known for the best six novels she had written. Her plots describe the dependency of women upon their marriages and married life. She was a woman who wrote about the woman and a woman’s place in the society. She is believed to be the best known English writer after Shakespeare. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma are her most famous novels.

William Blake 1757-1827

William Blake was born on 28th November 1775 and died on 12 August 1827. He is a well known English poet, painter and printmaker. The fame he deserved in his lifetime, he got now and considered to be a seminal figure in the history of English poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. His behavior was different from his contemporary writers and poets.

Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400

Geoffrey Chaucer has been called the “father of English literature”. He was an English poet, author and civil servant. He is best known for his work The Canterbury Tales. More than seven hundred years before he understood the characters as a psychiatrist and wrote them on his pages just as they were. His characterization is as strong that even in this time when we read his characters it seems as we are having those characters in our own time.

Charles Dickens 1812-1870

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7th February 1812 and died on 9th June 1870. He was an English writer and social critic. He is considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian Era. His novels and short stories are widely read today. He has been recognized as a literary genius from many critics. His best works are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.

John Donne 1572-1631

John Donne was born on 22nd January 1572 and died on 31st March 1631. He was an English poet, scholar, soldier and cleric in the Church of England. His writing style was quite different from the other writers of the Elizabethan Era. He is considered to be the preeminent representative of the Metaphysical poets. His works includes love poems, religious poems, elegies, epigrams, songs and satires. He is most famous for his mastery of writing metaphysical conceits.

George Eliot 1819-1880

George Eliot was born on 22nd November 1819 and died on 22nd December 1880. George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans that she used to write literature. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She was a well known English novelist, journalist, poet and translator. Her works are famous for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.

She wrote seven novels. Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch are her famous works.

This is a list of the top English writers in the history of English literature. Top writers are described here with their most famous works, style and techniques they used in their writings.