1. Visual Timeline This could be mindbogglingly huge so, I will show some restraint with who gets a mention and not sneak in all my favourite authors. Our topic is LOVE through the ages, so an aspect of love ought to be explored. You need to be aware of the evolution of literature – Kings and Queens, centuries and decades make reasonable divisions – I am sticking to British authors with the occasional important American thrown in. Use this with any knowledge of historical, social and cultural context and you will be alright with A03 & A04.

11. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)

12. Christopher Marlowe (1564 -93)

13. Ben Jonson (1572 -1637)

14. John Ford (1586 – 1639)

19. John Donne (1572 – 1631)

23. Francis Beaumont (1584 – 1616)

24. William Rowley (1585 – 1626)

25. George Herbert (1593 – 1633) You won’t find any saucy references in my poetry. I’m not like dirty old Donne. My only loves are almighty God And my lovely mum (and the wife too I suppose)

29. John Milton (1608 – 74)

31. Andrew Marvell (1621 -78)

33. Robert Herrick

35. Sir John Suckling

36. Aphra Behn (1640 – 89)

39. William Wycherley (1640 – 1716)

40. John Wilmot, 2 nd Earl of Rochester (1648 – 80)

41. Congreve (1670 – 1729)

43. Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731)

44. Sir John Vanbrugh (1664 – 1726)

45. Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)

46. Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)

47. Henry Fielding (1707 -54)

50. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816)

51. Fanny Burney (1752 – 1840)

52. William Blake (1757 – 1827) I write poetry, inspirational speeches, do engravings, paint, sculpt and get naked communicate with angels in the back garden!

53. Robert Burns (1759 – 96)

56. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)

57. Walter Scott (1771 – 1832)

58. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1776 – 1849)

59. Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)

62. John Clare (1793 – 1864)

64. Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)

65. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 -1822)

66. John Keats (1795 – 1821)

67. Mary Shelley (1791 – 1851) I won the scary writing competition – properly kicking the arses of husband Percy and bad boy Byron! Frankenstein is still read more than some of their scribblings. Ha Ha - one nil to the fair sex.

69. Industrial Revolution

71. William Morris (1834 – 96)

72. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 82)

73. William Holman Hunt

74. John Everett Millais

75. Christina Rossetti (1830 – 94)

76. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 - 64

77. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (1806 – 61)

78. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 – 65)

79. Charlotte Bronte (1816 – 1855)

80. Emily Bronte (1818 – 48)

81. Anne Bronte (1820 - 49 )

82. George Eliot (1819 – 55)

83. Emily Dickinson (1830 – 86)

84. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837 -1915)

85. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 92)

86. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 63)

87. Walt Whitman (1819 – 92)

88. Charles Dickens (1812 – 70)

89. Mrs Henry Wood (1814 – 87)

90. Anthony Trollope (1815 – 82)

91. Wilkie Collins (1824 – 89)

92. Robert Browning (1812 – 89)

93. Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928)

95. George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

96. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937)

97. William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)

98. Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931)

99. Raymond Chandler (1888 – 1959) The High Window was one of my books – 1942 – So OY – Larkin give me some money – you’ve stolen my title (almost) and my look. “ I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.” Not really!! - Don’t mix me up with Marlowe!!

100. Edna St Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950)

102. Noel Coward (1899 – 1973)

106. John Steinbeck (1902 – 68)

108. Edward Thomas (1878 – 1917)

109. Seigfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967)

110. Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918)

111. E.M. Forster (1879 -1970)

114. Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941)

115. James Joyce (1882 – 1941)

116. D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)

117. Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 66)

118. John Betjemen (1906 -197-)

119. Arthur Miller (1915 -

120. J.D. Salinger (1919 – 2010)

121. Truman Capote (1924 - )

122. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (1922 – 2009)

126. T.S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)

127. Samuel Beckett (1906 – 89)

128. W.H. Auden (1907 – 73)

132. Tennessee Williams (1911 – 83)

133. Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953)

134. Philip Larkin (1922 – 85)

135. Brian Friel (1929 - )

136. Harold Pinter (1930 -2009 )

137. Ted Hughes (1930 – 98)

138. Sylvia Plath (1932 – 63)

139. Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

140. Margaret Atwood (1937 - )

141. Alan Bennett

142. Seamus Heaney ( 1939 - )

143. Alice Walker ( 1944 - )

144. Ian McEwan (1948 - )

145. Carol Ann Duffy (1955 - )

146. Simon Armitage