Geoffrey chaucer
Chaucer was born in a wealthy merchant family in London, received a college education, and was familiar with French and Italian. /kloc-began to enter and leave the palace in 0/357, and then he often traveled to Europe, where he was exposed to the works of Dante and Boccaccio, which influenced his later literary creation. Chaucer died in London on 1400 and was buried in the "Poet's Corner" of Westminster Abbey.
2. william shakespeare
William shakespeare (1564.04.23-1616.04.23) is often regarded as Shakespeare by the Chinese community. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Lu Xun called Shakespeare a "narrow spire" in On Moro Poetry (1908 February), which was the most outstanding in the history of English literature.
3. John Dryden
English poet, playwright and literary critic. He wrote for the nobility all his life, praising the king and the Restoration Dynasty, and was named "Poet Laureate". His main works are Fashionable Wedding (1673), All for Love (1667), Alongsha and Shifoto (Poetry), On Drama Poetry, The Basis of Tragic Criticism, etc. He is also an important critic and playwright of English classicism. He made outstanding contributions to the emergence and development of English classical drama through drama criticism and creative practice.
5. henry fielding
Henry fielding (1April 22nd, 707-1754 65438+1October 8th) was the most outstanding English novelist and dramatist in the 8th century. /kloc-One of the greatest representatives of the British Enlightenment in the 0/8th century, the first English writer to write with a complete novel theory was called "the father of English novels" by Walter Scott.
6. Samuel Richardson
/kloc-a famous British novelist and conservative writer in the 0/8th century, whose works include Clarissa and Pamela. He pays attention to marriage ethics, mostly takes maids or middle-class women as the protagonists, and is good at describing the emotions and psychology of characters, thus creating a model of English family novels. Among them, his work Pamela is the pioneering work of English sentimentalism literature.