page_title: List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
section_title: Writers
hierarchical_section_title: List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge / Writers
caption_attribution_description: Depicted person&#58; &#32;Muhammad Iqbal&#32;– poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
context_page_description: This is a list of notable alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge. Note that some of the alumni noted hereafter are connected to Trinity through honorary degrees. Not all studied at the College.
context_section_description: Clive Bell (1881–1964), art and literary critic; husband of Vanessa
  Charles Astor Bristed (1820–1874), American author and scholar
  George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), poet; "She Walks in Beauty", Don Juan
  Edward Hallet Carr (1892–1982), writer and international relations theorist
  Erskine Childers (1870–1922), writer, Irish Nationalist; The Riddle of the Sands
  Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet, dramatist – The Mistress
  George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet; did not matriculate
  Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), writer, poet, occultist, and 'Magician'; Magick in Theory and Practice
  Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), playwright; The Brothers, The West Indian
  Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist
  Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566–1601), soldier, courtier to Elizabeth I; executed for rebellion
  John Dryden (1631–1700), Poet Laureate; "Absalom and Achitophel"; translator of Virgil
  Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), poet; Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
  Giles Fletcher (1588–1623), poet; "Christ's Victory" and "Triumph"
  George Gascoigne (1525–1577), poet, dramatist; "Jocasta", "The Glasse of Government"
  Edmund Gosse (1845–1928), poet, critic; On Viol and Flute
  Thom Gunn (1929–2004), Modernist poet
  George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet, critic
  A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet, classical scholar
  Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), English writer and politician
  Muhammad Iqbal (1875–1938), Islamic poet and philosopher
  Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1861–1938), poet, historian and senior civil servant
  Nathaniel Lee (1649–1692), dramatist; The Rival Queens
  John Lehmann (1907–1987), poet, man of letters; inaugurated The London Magazine
  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), novelist; The Last Days of Pompeii; politician
  Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), poet; "Horatian Ode", "The Rehearsal Transpros'd"; MP (Hull)
  Frederick Maurice (1805–1872), theologian, writer, Christian Socialist
  A. A. Milne (1882–1956), writer; Winnie-the-Pooh
  Nicholas Monsarrat (1910–1979), novelist; The Cruel Sea, Three Corvettes
  Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian and English novelist; Lolita
  Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), Gambian novelist, poet and educationist
  Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet, dramatist
  T. J. Cobden Sanderson (1840–1922), bookbinder; Arts and Crafts Movement pioneer
  Sir Henry Spelman (1562–1641), antiquary; Reliquiae Spelmannianae
  Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer; Eminent Victorians; Bloomsbury Group
  Sir John Suckling (1609–1642), poet, dramatist
  Tom Taylor (1817–1880), Scottish dramatist; editor of Punch
  Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809–1892), poet – "Maud", "In Memoriam"
  William M. Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist; Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond (dropped out after second year)
  Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (1906–1996), educator, new age thinker and writer
  George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687), wit, politician, dramatist; The Rehearsal; member of the 'Cabal'
  Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Marxist critic, novelist; The Country and the City
  Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer; husband of Virginia Woolf; Bloomsbury Group
  Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876–1958), mountaineer and author
caption: Muhammad Iqbal, Islamic poet and philosopher
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