Modernist writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf experimented with stream-of-consciousness narration in the early twentieth century.

The Victorian period largely coincided with the long reign of Queen Victoria during the nineteenth century in Britain.

T. S. Eliot is widely regarded as a central figure of Modernist poetry, notably for "The Waste Land."

Edgar Allan Poe is chiefly regarded as an English Romantic poet of the Lake School.

The English Renaissance produced major dramatists, including Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.