KEY TO LINKS This resource was created with the help and inspiration of NATE members. It gives you one-stop-shop access to the electronic archives of authors who are out of copyright using the unaltered text of the National Curriculum for England. Links are indicated by an E symbol, explained here, and by underlining in the normal way. Click on the symbol to read electronic archives of the writer's work. These digital resources can be manipulated in a wide variety of ways. This section will enable you to reach the best archives without the time-consuming hassle of using search engines. Where there are critical evaluations of the writer's work, or other resources, they are linked by underlining author's name, as usual.

Examples of major playwrights

William Congreve, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher Marlowe, Sean O'Casey, Harold Pinter,

J B Priestley, Peter Shaffer, G B Shaw, R B Sheridan, Oscar Wilde.

List of major writers published before 1914

Jane Austen Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë John Bunyan Wilkie Collins Joseph Conrad Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle George Eliot

Henry Fielding Elizabeth Gaskell Thomas Hardy Henry James Mary Shelley Robert Louis Stevenson Jonathan Swift Anthony Trollope, H G Wells.

Examples of fiction by major writers after 1914

E M Forster William Golding Graham Greene Aldous Huxley James Joyce D H Lawrence

Katherine Mansfield George Orwell Muriel Spark William Trevor Evelyn Waugh.

List of major poets published before 1914

Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Emily Brontë, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Donne, John Dryden, Thomas Gray, George Herbert,

Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Christina Rossetti,   William Shakespeare (sonnets), Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edmund Spenser, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Vaughan, William Wordsworth, Sir Thomas Wyatt.

Examples of major poets after 1914

W H Auden, Gillian Clarke, Keith Douglas, T S Eliot, U A Fanthorpe, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes,

Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Wilfred Owen, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, Edward Thomas R S Thomas, W B Yeats.

Examples of recent and contemporary drama, fiction and poetry

Drama: Alan Ayckbourn, Samuel Beckett, Alan Bennett Robert Bolt Brian Friel Willis Hall David Hare Willie Russell R C Sherriff Arnold Wesker.

Fiction: J G Ballard Berlie Doherty Susan Hill Laurie Lee Joan Lingard Bill Naughton Alan Sillitoe Mildred Taylor Robert Westall.

Poetry: Simon Armitage James Berry Douglas Dunn Liz Lochhead Adrian Mitchell Edwin Muir Grace Nichols Jo Shapcott.

Examples of drama, fiction and poetry by major writers from different cultures and traditions

Drama: Athol Fugard Arthur Miller Wole Soyinka Tennessee Williams.

Fiction: Chinua Achebe Maya Angelou Willa Cather Anita Desai Nadine Gordimer Ernest Hemingway H H Richardson Doris Lessing R K Narayan John Steinbeck Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Poetry: E K Brathwaite Emily Dickinson Robert Frost Robert Lowell Les Murray Rabindranath Tagore Derek Walcott.

Examples of non-fiction and non-literary texts

Personal record and viewpoints on society: Peter Ackroyd James Baldwin John Berger James Boswell Vera Brittain Lord Byron William Cobbett Gerald Durrell Robert Graves Samuel Johnson Laurie Lee Samuel Pepys Flora Thompson Beatrice Webb Dorothy Wordsworth.

Travel writing: Jan Morris Freya Stark Laurens Van Der Post.

Reportage: James Cameron Winston Churchill Alistair Cooke Dilys Powell.

The natural world: David Attenborough Rachel Carson Charles Darwin Steve Jones.