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March 27 – Dick King-Smith, English children's author (died 2011) April 2 – Zenia Larsson, Polish-Swedish writer and sculptor of Jewish descent (died 2007) April 4 – Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Irish poet and scholar (died 2021) April 13 – John Braine, English novelist (died 1986) [19] April 16. Kingsley Amis, English novelist (died 1995) [20]
The term Middle English literature refers to the literature written in the form of the English language known as Middle English, from the late 12th century until the 1470s. During this time the Chancery Standard , a form of London -based English, became widespread and the printing press regularized the language.
English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [ 1 ] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English .
The English studies discipline involves the study, analysis, and exploration of English literature through texts. English studies include: The study of literature, especially novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. Although any English-language literature may be studied, the most commonly analyzed literature originates from Britain, the ...
September – T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land is first published in the United Kingdom in book form, complete with notes, in a limited edition by the Hogarth Press of Richmond upon Thames. The firm is run by Eliot's Bloomsbury Group friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and the type handset by Virginia (completed in July). [9] [10]
Joseph Hillis Miller Jr. (March 5, 1928 – February 7, 2021) [1] [2] was an American literary critic and scholar who advanced theories of literary deconstruction.He was part of the Yale School along with scholars including Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, and Geoffrey Hartman, who advocated deconstruction as an analytical means by which the relationship between literary text and the associated ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, father of English literature. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.
Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.. The English novel is an important part of English literature.This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland (or any part of Ireland before 1922).