1 English and Scottish Popular Ballads Lord Randal The Wife of Usher''s Well The Three Ravens Sir Patrick Spens Robin Hood and the Widow''s Three Sons 2 Edmund Spenser 3 Christopher Marlowe 4 William Shakespeare 5 Ben Jonson 6 The English Bible 7 Francis Bacon 8 John Donne 9 Andrew Marvell 10 John Milton 11 John Bunyan 12 John Dryden 13 Daniel Defoe 14 Jonathan Swift 15 William Congreve 16 Joseph Addison 17 John Gay 18 Alexander Pope 19 Samuel Johnson 20 Samuel Richardson 21 Henry Fielding 22 Laurence Sterne Thomas Gray 24 Oliver Goldsmith 25 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 26 Edward Gibbon 27 William l 28 Robert Burns 29 William Wordsworth 30 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 31 Jane Austen 32 Sir Walter Scott 33 Charles Lamb 34 William Hazlitt 35 George Gordon, Lord Byron 36 Percy Bysshe Shelley 37 John Keats 38 William Cobbett 39 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 40 Robert Browning 41 Charles Dickens 42 William Makepeace Thackeray 43 Lewis Carroll 44 William Morris 45 Oscar Wilde 46 Thomas Hardy 47 George Bernard Shaw 48 William Butler Yeats 49 Lytton Strachey 50 Virginia Woolf 51 James Joyce 52 D.H.Lawrence 53 T.S.Eliot