# Liste d'écrivains britanniques et irlandais

Cette liste présente des écrivains de nationalité anglaise, écossaise, galloise et irlandaise, qui ont écrit aussi bien en anglais qu'en d'autres langues.
* Haut – A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Lascelles Abercrombie (1881 - 1938)
* Danie Abse (1923- 2014)
* Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
* Ælfric d'Eynsham (955- 1020)
* Cecelia Ahern (1981 - )
* William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 - 1882)
* Mark Akenside (1721 - 1770)
* Aneurin (525 - 600)
* Christopher Anstey (1724 - 1805)
* Evelyn Anthony (1928 -)
* John Arbuthnot (1667 - 1735)
* John Arden (1930 - 2012)
* Elizabeth von Arnim (1866 - 1941)
* Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)
* Roger Ascham (1516 - 1568)
* Asser (Xe siècle)
* Kate Atkinson (1951 -)
* W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
* Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
* Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913)

## B

* Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
* Philip James Bailey (1816 - 1902)
* Nigel Balchin (1908 - 1970)
* Jean Bale (1495 - 1593)
* J. G. Ballard (1930 - 2009)
* Mary Balogh (1944- )
* Alexander Barclay (v. 1475 - 1552)
* Maurice Baring (1874 - 1945)
* Harley Granville Barker (1877 - 1946)
* Nigel Barley (1947 -)
* Barnabe Barnes (v.1569 - 1609)
* Elizabeth Barrett (1806 - 1861)
* J. M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
* Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677)
* Herbert Ernest Bates (1905 - 1974)
* Richard Baxter (1615 - 1691)
* James Beattie (1735 - 1803)
* Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616)
* Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
* William Thomas Beckford (1759 - 1844)
* Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849)
* Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
* Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689)
* Julian Bell (1908-1937)
* Quentin Bell (1910-1996)
* Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953)
* Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)
* Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742)
* J.D. Beresford (1873 - 1947)
* Walter Besant (1836 - 1901)
* Thomas Blackburn (1916 - 1977)
* Richard Doddrige Blackmore (1825 - 1900)
* William Blake (1757 - 1827)
* Edmund Blunden (1896 - 1974)
* Robert Bloomfield (1766 - 1823)
* Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840 - 1922)
* George Henry Borrow (1803 - 1881)
* John Bourchier, Lord Berners (1467 - 1533)
* William Lisle Bowles (1792 - 1850)
* William Boyd (1952 -)
* John Braine (1922 - 1986)
* Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930)
* O.H. Manor, dit James Bridie (1885 - 1951)
* Christine Brooke-Rose (1926 - 2012)
* Richard Brome (1590 - 1652)
* Anne Brontë (1819 - 1875)
* Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
* Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
* Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915)
* Brigid Brophy (1929 - 1995)
* Rhoda Broughton (1840 - 1920)
* Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
* William Browne (1591 - 1643)
* Elizabeth Browning voir Elizabeth Barrett
* Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
* George Buchanan (1506 - 1582)
* Henry Thomas Buckle (1821 - 1862)
* John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
* Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
* Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
* Gilbert Burnet (1643 - 1715)
* Frances d'Arbley, dite Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840)
* Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
* Robert Burton (1577 - 1640)
* Joseph Butler (1692 - 1752)
* Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
* Mary Butts (1890 - 1937)
* William Byrd (1542 - 1623)
* Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

## C

* Reginald Campbell (1894 - 1950)
* Thomas Campbell (1777 - 1844)
* David Campton (1924 - 2006)
* Elias Canetti (1905 - 1994) (écrit en allemand)
* Thomas Carew (v.1598 - 1639
* William Carleton (1794 - 1869)
* Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
* Charles Ludwidge Dodgson, dit Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
* Joyce Cary (1888 - 1957)
* William Caxton (v.1422 - 1491)
* George Chapman (v.1559 - 1634)
* James Hadley Chase (1906 - 1985)
* Thomas Chatterton (1752 - 1770)
* Geoffrey Chaucer (v.1340 - 1400)
* John Cheke (1514 - 1557)
* G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
* Henry Chettle (v.1560 - v.1607)
* Anna Maria Chetwode (a publié entre 1827 et 1839)
* Agatha Christie ou (Mary Westmacott) (1891 - 1976)
* Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
* Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757)
* Edward Hyde comte de Clarendon (1608 - 1674)
* Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - 2008)
* John Cleland (1709 - 1789)
* John Cleveland (1613 - 1658)
* Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 1861)
* William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
* John Colet (v.1467 - 1519)
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
* William Collins (1721 - 1759)
* William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889)
* William Congreve (1670 - 1729)
* Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, dit Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
* William Cooper (1910 - 2001)
* Alfred Edgar Coppard (1878- 1957)
* Alexander Cordell (1914-1997)
* Bernard Cornwell (1944 -)
* Lewys Glyn Cothi ( 1420- 1490)
* Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
* William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
* Abraham Cowley (1618 - 1667)
* George Crabbe (1754 - 1832)
* Richard Crashaw (1612 - 1649)
* Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981)
* Richard Cumberland (1732 - 1811)

## D

* Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
* Samuel Daniel (1562 - 1619)
* George Darley (1795 - 1846)
* Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
* Erasmus Darwin (1731 - 1802)
* William D'Avenant (1606 - 1668)
* John Davidson (1857 - 1909)
* Andrew Davies (1936- )
* Russell T Davies (1963- )
* John Day (1574 - v.1640)
* Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)
* Thomas Dekker (v.1570 - 1632)
* Walter de la Mare (1873 - 1956)
* Shelagh Delaney (1939 - 2011)
* Thomas Delonay (v.1543 - 1600)
* John Denham (1615 - 1669)
* John Dennis (1657 - 1734)
* Thomas de Quincey (1785 - 1859)
* Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870)
* Monica Dickens (1915 - 1992)
* Patrick Dickinson (1914 - 1984)
* Kenelm Digby (1603 - 1665)
* Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
* John Donne (1573 - 1631)
* Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
* Paul Dowswell (1957-)
* Margaret Drabble (1939 -)
* Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
* John Drinkwater (1882 - 1937)
* William Drummond d'Hawthornden (1585 - 1649)
* John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
* Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
* William Dunbar (v.1460 - v.1520)
* Ronald Duncan (1914 - 1982)
* Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990)
* John Dyer (1699 - 1757)

## E

* Marion Eames (1921-2007)
* Maria Edgeworth (1767 - 1849)
* Richard Edwards (v1522 - 1566)
* Olivia Elder (735-1780)
* Caradoc Evans, (1878-1945)
* Mary Ann Evans, dite George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
* Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
* Ebenezer Elliott (1781 - 1849)
* Thomas Ellwood (1639 - 1713)
* Thomas Elyot (v.(1490 - 1546)
* William Empson (1906 - 1984)
* George Etherege (v.1635 - 1691)
* John Evelyn (1620 - 1706)

## F

* George Farquhar (1677 - 1707)
* Jasper Fforde (1961 -)
* Giles Fletcher (1588 - 1623)
* Phineas Fletcher (1582 - 1650)
* Anne Finck, comtesse de Winchilsea (1661 - 1720)
* Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
* Sarah Fielding (1710 - 1768)
* John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
* Ken Follett (1949-)
* John Ford (1586 - v.1639)
* C. S. Forester (1899 - 1966)
* Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970)
* Frederick Forsyth (1938 - )
* John Fowles (1926 - 2005)
* George Fox (1624 - 1691)
* John Foxe (1517 - 1587)
* Antonia Fraser (1932-)
* Michael Frayn (1933 -)
* Edward Augustus Freeman (1823 - 1892)
* James Anthony Froude (1818 - 1894)
* Christopher Fry (1907 - 2005)
* Roger Fry (1866-1934)
* Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

## G

* John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)
* John Galt (1779 - 1839)
* Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829 - 1902)
* David Garnett (1892 — 1981)
* David Garrick (1717 - 1779)
* George Gascoigne (v.1525 - 1577)
* John Gay (1685 - 1732)
* Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
* Giraldus Cambrensis (1146 av J.C-1223 av J.C)
* George Robert Gissing (1857 - 1903)
* John Glover (1330? - 1408)
* William Godwin (1756 - 1836)
* William Golding (1911 - 1993)
* Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
* Catherine Grace Frances Gore (1799 - 1861)
* Edmund Gosse (1849 - 1928)
* Elizabeth Goudge (1900 - 1984)
* Iris Gower (1935–2010)
* Sarah Grand (1854 - 1943)
* Robert Graves (1895 - 1985
* Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771)
* Henry Vincent Yorke dit Henry Green (1905 - 1973)
* John Richard Green (1837 - 1883)
* Graham Greene (1904 - 1991)
* Robert Greene (v.1560 - 1592)
* Ann Griffiths (1776-1805)
* William Grocyn (v.1446 - 1519)
* Dafydd ap Gwilym (vers 1315/1320 - vers 1350/1370)

## H

* William Habington (1605 - 1654)
* Henry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925)
* Joseph Hall (1574 - 1656)
* Henry Hallam (1777 - 1859)
* John Hankin (1869 - 1909)
* Gerald Hanley (1916 - 1992)
* Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
* Leslie Poles Hartley (1895 - 1972)
* William Haughton (v.1575 - 1605)
* Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863 - 1933)
* William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
* Shirley Hazzard (1931 - 2016)
* Lafcadio Hearn (1850 - 1904)
* William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
* Robert Henryson (v.1425 - v.1500)
* Rayner Heppenstall (1911 -)
* George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
* Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
* Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861 - 1923)
* John Heywood (v.1497 - v.1580)
* Jack Higgins (1929-)
* Aaron Hill (1685 - 1750)
* James Hilton (1900 - 1954)
* Thomas Hinde (1926 - 2014)
* Thomas Holcroft (1745 - 1809)
* Robert Holdstock (1948 -)
* John Holloway (1920 -)
* John Home (1722 - 1808)
* Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845)
* Theodore Edward Hook (1788 - 1841)
* Mererid Hopwood (1964- )
* Nick Hornby (1957 -)
* Anthony Horowitz (1955 -)
* Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
* Henry Howard comte de Surrey (1517 - 1547)
* William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922)
* John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–1887)
* Richard Hughes (1900 - 1976)
* Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)
* David Hume (1711 - 1776)
* James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
* Angela Huth (1938 -)
* Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

## I

* Christopher Isherwood (1904 - 1986)

## J

* Henry James (1843-1916), Américain naturalisé britannique
* Phyllis Dorothy James (1920 - 2014)
* Margaret Storm Jameson (1891 - 1986)
* Kathleen Jamie (1962 -)
* Richard Jefferies (1848 - 1887)
* Anne Jellicoe (1928 - 2017)
* Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
* Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse (1888 - 1958)
* Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
* Jennifer Johnston (1930 -)
* Jack Jones (1884-1970)
* Lewis Jones(1897-1939)
* William Jones (1746-1794)
* James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
* Judith (XIe siècle)

## K

* Sarah Kane (1976 - 1999)
* John Keats (1795 - 1821)
* John Keble (1792 - 1866)
* Hugh Kelly (1739 - 1777)
* Emily Georgiana Kemp (1860 - 1939)
* Margaret Kennedy (1896 - 1967)
* Thomas Killigrew (1612 - 1683)
* Francis King (1923 - 2011)
* Alexander William Kinglake (1809 - 1891)
* Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
* Amis Kingsley (1922- 1995)
* Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
* John Knox (v.1505 - 1572)
* Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
* Bernard Kops (1928 -)
* Thomas Kyd (1558 - 1594)

## L

* William Langland (v.1330 - v.1386)
* Hugh Latimer (v.1485 - 1555)
* David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
* Thomas Edward Lawrence (dit « Lawrence d’Arabie ») (1888 - 1935)
* David John Moore Cornwell, dit John Le Carré (1931 -
* William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838 - 1903)
* Nathaniel Lee (v.1653 - 1692)
* Rosamond Lehmann (1901 - 1990)
* Doris Lessing (1919 - 2013)
* Charles James Lever (1806 - 1872)
* Cecil Day-Lewis (1904 - 1972)
* C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
* Gwyneth Lewis (1959 -)
* Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775 - 1818)
* Saunders Lewis (1893–1985)
* Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957)
* George Lillo (1693 - 1739)
* Thomas Linacre (v.1460 - 1524)
* Eric Linklater(1899-1974)
* Richard Llewellyn (1907-1983)
* David Lyndsay (v.1485 - v.1555)
* Henry Livings (1929 - 1998)
* David Lodge (1935 -)
* Thomas Lodge (v.1558 - 1625)
* Richard Lovelace (1618 - 1658)
* Samuel Lover (1797 - 1868)
* Peter Lovesey (1936- )
* Malcolm Lowry (1909 - 1957)
* John Lydgate (v.1370 - v.1451)
* John Lyly (v.1554 - 1606)
* Patricia Lynch (1894 - 1972)
* Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, Lord Lytton (1803 - 1873)
* Robert Lytton (1831 - 1891)

## M

* Norman MacCaig (1910 - 1996 )
* Rose Macaulay (1889 - 1958)
* Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
* Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947)
* Colin MacInnes (1914 - 1976)
* Compton Mackenzie (1883 -1972)
* Henry Mackenzie (1745 - 1831)
* Ian Maclaren (1850 – 1907)
* Louis MacNeice (1907 - 1963)
* Mary Saint-Leger Harrison, dite Lucas Mallet (1852 - 1931)
* William Hurrell Mallock (1849 - 1929)
* Thomas Malory (1405- 1471)
* Thomas Malthus (1766 - 1834)
* Bernard Mandeville (1670 - 1733)
* Katherine Mansfield (1889 - 1923)
* Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)
* Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848)
* John Marston (1576 - 1634)
* Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678)
* John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
* William Mason (1724 - 1797)
* Philip Massinger (1583 - 1640)
* Charles Robert Maturin (1782 - 1824)
* William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
* Sarah May (1972 - )
* Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr (XIIe siècle)
* Ian McEwan (1948 - )
* Stephen McKenna (1888 - 1967)
* Candia McWilliam (1955 -)
* George Meredith (1828 - 1909)
* Léonard Merrick (1864 - 1939)
* Alice Meynell (1850 - 1922)
* Thomas Middleton (v.1580 - 1627)
* Andrew Miller (1960 - )
* John Milton (1608 - 1674)
* Mary Russell Mitford (1787 - 1855)
* Nicholas Monsarrat (1910 - 1979)
* Edward Moore (1712 - 1757)
* George Moore (1852 - 1933)
* Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
* Thomas Sturge Moore (1870 - 1944)
* Hannah More (1745 - 1833)
* Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
* Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894 - 1958)
* Jan Morris (1926- )
* William Morris (1834 - 1896)
* Arthur Morrison (1863 - 1945)
* John Mortimer (1923 - 2009)
* Ralph Hale Mottram (1883 - 1971)
* Edwin Muir (1887 - 1959)
* Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
* Julie Myerson (1960 - )

## N

* Thomas Nashe (1567 - v.1601)
* Percy Howard Newby (1918 - 1997)
* John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890)
* Norman Nicholson (1914 - 1987)
* Lawrence Norfolk (1963 -)
* Thomas Norton (1532 - 1584)

## O

* Edna O'Brien (1932 -)
* Frances Attie O'Brien (1840-1883)
* Sean O'Brien (1952 -)
* Thomas Occleve (v.1370 - v.1450)
* Andrew O'Hagan (1968 -)
* Frank Ormsby (en) (1947 -)
* George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
* John Osborne (1929 -1994)
* James Macpherson, dit Ossian (1736 - 1796)
* Thomas Otway (1652 - 1685)
* Daniel Owen (1836–1895)
* Alun Owen (1925 - 1994)

## P

* Louise Page (1955 -)
* Robert Paltock (1697 - 1767)
* Fanny Parnell (1848 - 1882)
* Thomas Parnell (1679 - 1718)
* Sheena Patel (écrit au XXIe siècle)
* Walter Pater (1839 - 1894)
* Coventry Patmore (1823 - 1896)
* Thomas Love Peacock (1785 - 1866)
* Pearl Poet (XIVe siècle)
* Iain Pears (1955-)
* Tim Pears (1954-)
* George Peele (1558 - 1598)
* Thomas Percy (1729 - 1811)
* Stephen Philipps (1868 - 1915)
* Ambrose Philips (1675 - 1749)
* Eden Phillpotts (1862 - 1960)
* John Wolcot (1738 - 1819)
* Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 - 1934)
* Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)
* Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
* Anthony Powell (1905 - 2000)
* John Cowper Powys (1872 - 1963)
* Llewelyn Powys (1884 - 1939)
* Theodore Francis Powys (1875 - 1953)
* Terry Pratchett (1948 - 2015)
* Caradog Prichard (1904–1980)
* John Boynton Priestley (1894 - 1984)
* Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
* Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900 - 1997)
* Philip Pullman (1946 -)
* Barbara Pym (1913 - 1980)

## Q

* Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)

## R

* Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823)
* Kathleen Raine (1908 - 2003)
* Allan Ramsay (1686 - 1758)
* Terence Rattigan (1911 - 1977)
* Herbert Read (1893 - 1968)
* Charles Reade (1814 - 1884)
* Peter Reading (1946 - 2011)
* Douglas Reeman, dit Alexander Kent (1924 - 2017)
* Goronwy Rees (1909-1979)
* Clara Reeve (1729 - 1807)
* James Reeves (1909 - 1978)
* Thomas Mayne Reid (1818 - 1883)
* Eileen Mary Challans, dite Mary Renault (1905 - 1983)
* Ruth Rendell (1930 - 2015)
* Jean Rhys (1894-1979)
* Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)
* Anne Ridler (1912 - 2001)
* Kate Roberts (1891-1985)
* Michèle Roberts (1949 -)
* Eileen Arnot Robertson (1903 - 1961)
* Patrick Robinson (1940 -)
* Samuel Rogers (1763 - 1855)
* Dilys Rose (1954 -)
* Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
* William Rowley (1585 - 1642)
* J. K. Rowling (1966 -)
* Bernice Rubens (1928 - 2004)
* Carol Rumens (1944 -)
* William Hale White, dit Mark Rutherford (1831 - 1913)

## S

* Thomas Sackville, 1er comte de Dorset (1536 - 1608)
* Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
* Saki (1870 - 1916)
* William Sansom (1912 - 1976)
* Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967)
* James Saunders (1925 - 2004)
* Mrs.Cronwright-Schreiner, dite Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
* Alexander Scott (1920 - 1989)
* Alexander Scott (1520-1584)
* Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
* Thomas Shadwell (v.1642 - 1692)
* Peter Shaffer (1925 - 2016)
* William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
* George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
* Bob Shaw (1927 - 1978)
* Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
* Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
* William Shenstone (1714 - 1793)
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
* James Shirley (1596 - 1666)
* Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834 - 1903)
* Nevil Shute (1899 - 1960)
* Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
* Alan Sillitoe (1928 - 2010)
* Andrew Sinclair (1935 - )
* May Sinclair (1863 - 1946)
* Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
* Osbert Sitwell (1892 - 1969)
* Sacheverell Sitwell (1897 - 1988)
* John Skelton (v.1460 - 1529)
* Robin Skelton (1925 - 1997)
* Tobias Smollett (1721 - 1771)
* Charles Percy Snow (1905 - 1980)
* Robert South (1634 - 1716)
* Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
* Robert Southwell (1561 - 1595)
* Muriel Spark (1918 - 2006)
* Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
* Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
* Howard Spring (1889-1965)
* Richard Steele (1672 - 1729)
* Gladys Bertha Stern (1890 - 1973)
* Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
* Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson (1810 - 1866)
* Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
* William Stevenson (1924 - 2013)
* Desmont Stewart (1924 - 1981)
* David Storey (1933 - 2017)
* Jan Struther (1901 - 1953)
* John Heath-Stubbs (1918 - 2006)
* William Stubbs (1825 - 1901)
* John Suckling (1609 - 1642)
* Steph Swainston (1974 - )
* Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
* Algernon Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
* Frank Swinnerton (1884 - 1982)
* Joshua Sylvester (1563 - 1648)
* Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
* John Millington Synge (1871 - 1909)

## T

* Taliesin (518- 599)
* Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
* William Temple (1628 - 1699)
* Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
* William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
* Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
* Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
* Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913-2000)
* Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
* James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
* James Thomson (1834 - 1882)
* Colin Thubron (1939 -)
* Hester Thrale (1740-1821)
* John Tillotson (1630 - 1694)
* J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
* Charles Tomlinson (1927 - 2015)
* Cyril Tourneur (v.1575 - 1626)
* Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975)
* Rose Tremain (1943 -)
* Sidney Tremayne (1912 - 1963)
* Herbert Trench (1843 - 1926)
* William Trevor (1928 - 2016)
* Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
* Joanna Trollope (1943 -)
* Katharine Tynan (1859-1931)
* William Tyndale, ou Tindale (v.1492 - 1536)
* Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747 - 1813)

## U

* Nicholas Udall (1506 - 1556)
* Barry Unsworth (1930 - 2012)
* Thomas Urquhart (1611 - v.1660)
* Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

## V

* John Vanbrugh (1664 - 1726)
* John Van Druten (1901 - 1957)
* Henry Vaughan (1622 - 1695)

## W

* John Wain (1925 - 1994)
* Edmund Waller (1606 - 1687)
* Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
* Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941)
* Izaac Walton (1593 - 1683)
* Marina Warner (1946 -)
* Rex Warner (1905 - 1986)
* Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748)
* Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
* Mary Webb (1881 -1927)
* John Webster (v.1575 - v.1625)
* Fay Weldon (1931 -)
* H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
* Arnold Wesker (1932 - 2016)
* Cicily Isabel Andrews Fairfield, dite Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
* George Whetstone (v.1544 - 1582)
* John Ellis Williams (1924- 2008)
* Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
* Waldo Williams (1904-1971)
* Martha Wilmot (1775-1873)
* Dorothy Whipple (1893 - 1966)
* Laurence Whistler (1924 - 2000)
* Antonia White (1899 - 1980)
* Susan Wicks (1947 -)
* Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1856 - 1900)
* Charles Williams (1886 - 1945)
* Glanmor Williams (1920- 2005)
* Angus Wilson (1913 - 1991)
* Colin Wilson (1931 - 2013)
* Jeanette Winterson (1959 -)
* George Wither (1588 - 1667)
* John Withing (1917 - 1963)
* Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
* Margaret Louise Woods (1856 - 1945)
* Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
* William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
* Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 1542)
* William Wycherley (v.1640 - 1716)
* Eirug Wyn (1950–2004)
* Hedd Wyn (1887–1917)
* John Beynon Harris, dit John Wyndham (1903 - 1969)

## Y

* William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
* Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
* Francis Brett Young (1884 - 1954)

## Z

* Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926)