"• Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 - 1400)
- known as the Father of English literature
- he is best known today for The Canterbury Tales
 group of people who travel from London to Canterbury ( Cathedral)
 people of different social positions ( a knight, baker, ...)
 They had to tell stories - funny, sad, heroic, fable (bajka) stories
 incompleted
• Thomas More (1478-1535)
- was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
- was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation, in particular of Martin Luther and William Tyndale.
- More coined the word "utopia" – a name he gave to the ideal and imaginary island nation, the political system of which he described in Utopia, published in 1516.
• Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
- was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene (Královna víl) - is the epic poem
-is considered one of the greatest poets in the English language
• Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)
- was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era
- Hero and Leander is a mythological poem
• William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
• John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- was an English poet, polemicist
- is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (Ztracený ráj)
• Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)
- born Daniel Foe
- was an English trader, writer, journalist
- he is best known for his novel Robinson Crusoe
 tells of a man's shipwreck on a deserted island and his subsequent adventures
• William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- was a major English (pre)Romantic poet
- Lake poet
 The Lake Poets are a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century.
• Jane Austen (1776 - 1818)
- was an English novelist
- romantic fiction
- one of the most widely read writers in English literature
- Sense and Sensibility (Rozum a cit) ,Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park (Mansfieldské panství) and Emma
• G. Gordon, Lord Byron ( 1788 - 1824)
- was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
- one of the greatest British poets
- Among Byron's best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Childe Haroldova pouť)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- was one of the major English Romantic poets
- Prometheus Unbound and Ode to the West Wind"