
| Period | Name | CN Name | Writings | Something Else |
| Renaissance | Geoffery Chaucer | 杰弗里·乔叟 | The Canterbury Tales | Father of English Poetry |
| William Shakespeare | 威廉.莎士比亚 | Romeo and Juliet Hamlet Sonnet18 | playwright | |
| Francis Bacon | 弗兰西斯.培根 | Of Studies | essayist | |
| John Donne | 约翰.邓恩 | The Flea | Conceit(奇喻) | |
| John Milton | 约翰.弥尔顿 | Paradise Lost | poem | |
| Neoclassicism | Daniel Defoe | 丹尼尔·笛福 | Robinson Crusoe | |
| Jonathan Swift | 乔纳森.斯威特 | Gulliver's Travels | ||
| Romanticism | William Wordsworth | 威廉.华兹华斯 | I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud | Lake poet, poetry writing philosophy |
| Robert Burns | 罗伯特·彭斯 | A Red Red Rose Auld Lang Syne | Scottish Ploughman poet(农民诗人) | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 波西.比希.雪莱 | Ode to the West Wind | Second generation romantics Revolutionary(诗人) | |
| Realism | Jane Austen | 简.奥斯汀 | Pride and Prejudice | Style: The little bit(two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush(两寸牙雕) |
| Charles Dickens | 查尔斯·狄更斯 | Great Expectations | Style: London, England | |
| The Bronte Sister | 夏洛蒂·勃朗特 | Jane Eyre | ||
| Alfred Tennyson | 阿尔弗雷德.丁尼生 | Break, Break, Break | ||
| Robert Browning | 罗伯特.布郞宁 | My Last Duchess | ||
| Thomas Hardy | 扥马斯.哈代 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | ||
| George Bernard Shaw | 萧伯纳 | Pygmalion | ||
| Oscar Wilde | 奥斯卡·王尔德 | The Picture of Dorian Gary | ||
| Modernism | T.S. Eliot | T.S.艾略特 | The Waste Land | The milestone in modern poetry Allusion |
| William Butler Yeats | 叶芝 | The Second Coming | ||
| James Joyce | 詹姆斯·乔伊斯 | Ulysses Dubliners | Stream of consciousness | |
| Virginia Woolf | 伍尔夫 | Mrs. Dalloway | ||
| D.H. Lawrence | D.H.劳伦斯 | Sons and Lovers |
| After WWⅡ | William Golding | 威廉·戈尔丁 | Lord of the Flies |
