Worksheetswho is who?
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
He wrote a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners,
Chaucer
John Gower
John Bunyan
The first title of this famous writer's second novel is "First Impressions"
George Eliot
Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf
He is famous for his ""Heroic Couplets"
Alexander Pope
Dryden
Chaucer
He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey.
Chaucer
Gower
Shakespeare
Born in Portsmouth, he left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison.
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Henry James
This famous poet was the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621-1631).
Andrew Marvell
Abraham Cowley
John Donne
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes him as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history"
Ben Jonson
Dr. Johnson
Francis Bacon
England's first Poet Laureate in 1668
John Dryden
John Donne
Dr. Johnson
He was honored frequently during his lifetime and is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
Ted Hughes
This famous Latin American writer founded the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia.
Pablo Neruda
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Miguel Angel Asturias
Mary Ann Evans born on 22 November 1819 and died on 22 December 1880 is alternatively Mary Anne or Marian and popular by the name
George Eliot
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jane Austen
Having finished his apprenticeship with Hammond, he registered as a medical student at Guy's Hospital
P.B. Shelly
John Keats
Lord Byron
In 1811 he anonymously published a pamphlet called "The Necessity of Atheism"
Wordsworth
W.B. Yeats
P.B. Shelly
This playwright's plays are the first to use blank verse, which became the standard for the era.
Shakespeare
Thomas Lyly
Christopher Marlowe
He is known for his Four Humors
Ben Jonson
Philip Sydney
Spencer
She is the writer of a famous testimonio and 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy and social justice work for the indigenous peoples of Latin America[
Maria Teresa Tula
Rigoberta Menchu
Maria de Jesus
she is the creator of Frankenstein Monster
Mary Shelly
Virginia Woolf
Margaret Atwood
She is the author of the work that was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2000 and the Hammett Prize in 2001.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Lawrence
Alice Munro
Her prolific output made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate on the death of Wordsworth.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
George Eliot
Jane Austen
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".
Ted Hughes
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel,
Emily Dickinson
Adrienne Rich
Sylvia Plath
William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".
Robert Frost
Emerson
mark Twain
She boldly said "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen
George Eliot
His magnum opus is a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge".
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Shelly
