While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

He also developed literary skills to write poetry in English.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

It is sometimes argued that the greatest contribution that this work made to English literature was in popularizing the literary use of the vernacular, English, rather than French or Latin.

English had, however, been used as a literary language for centuries before Chaucer's life, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries — John Gower, William Langland, and the Pearl Poet — also wrote major literary works in English.

Reviewing the novel in the New York Times, Carlos Fuentes called Grossman's translation a " major literary achievement " and another called it the " most transparent and least impeded among more than a dozen English translations going back to the 17th century.

Although it received mixed reviews when it first came out, and was often condemned for its portrayal of amoral passion, the book subsequently became an English literary classic.

Successively, the word elf, as well as literary term fairy, evolved to a general denotation of various nature spirits like Puck, hobgoblins, Robin Goodfellow, the English and Scots brownie, the Northumbrian English hob and so forth.

A. Richards, English literary critic ( d. 1979 )

Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture, Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism.

Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).

In fact, her first major literary work was translating into English Strauss ' Life of Jesus ( 1846 ), which she completed after it had been begun by another member of the Rosehill circle.

Hilda Ellis Davidson ( 1948 ) states that Hel " as a goddess " in surviving sources seems to belong to a genre of literary personification, that the word hel is generally " used simply to signify death or the grave ," and that the word often appears as the equivalent to the English ' death ,' which Davidson states " naturally lends itself to personification by poets.

Because Anghiera's literary work was translated into English and French in a short period of time, the name " Hispaniola " is the most frequently used term in English-speaking countries for the island in scientific and cartographic works.

* John Ford ( dramatist ) ( 1586 – ca. 1640 ), English playwright and poet during Jacobean and Caroline literary eras ; best known for 1633 tragedy Tis Pity She's a Whore

Polish literary critic and University of Warsaw professor Paweł Dudziak remarked that " in spite of the unclear role of its author, The Painted Bird is an achievement in English literature.

Descriptive epithets are a common literary device in many parts of the world, whereas kennings in this restricted sense are a distinctive feature of Old Norse and, to a lesser extent, Old English poetry.

Maugham is a surname most commonly associated with the English literary family.

In the UK, media studies developed in the 1960s from the academic study of English, and from literary criticism more broadly.

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( d. 1903 )

* 1927 – Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer ( d. 1980 )

* 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic ( d. 1894 )

* 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

* 1900 – V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic ( d. 1997 )

* 1985 – Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic ( b. 1922 )

Reviewing the volume, critic Philip Toynbee declared that " Thomas is the greatest living poet in the English language ".

* 1866 – Roger Fry, English artist and art critic ( d. 1934 )

* 1779 – William Warburton, English critic and bishop ( b. 1698 )

Chalker earned a BA degree in English from Towson University in Towson, Maryland, where he was a theater critic on the school newspaper, The Towerlight.

* 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor ( b. 1924 )

" He later argued that the poem " is probably the most original poem about poetry in English, and the first hint outside his notebooks and letters that a major critic lies hidden in the twenty-five-year-old Coleridge.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

* 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic ( d. 1901 )

In 2009, English automotive critic Jeremy Clarkson wrote:

* 1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic ( d. 1974 )

* Os Guinness ( born 1941 ), English author and social critic

* 1784 – James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet ( d. 1859 )

The English author, critic, and biographer, Samuel Johnson, was convinced that Macpherson was " a mountebank, a liar, and a fraud, and that the poems were forgeries ".

* 1881 – Clive Bell, English critic ( d. 1964 )

* 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic ( d. 1917 )

A recent critic, who is a legal as well as a literary scholar, argues that Old Mortality not only reflects the evolution of Scottish nationalism but also invokes a foundational moment in British sovereignty, namely, the Act of Habeas corpus ( also known as the Great Writ ), passed by the English Parliament in 1679.