English Literature : List of Biographies and Their Authors

English Literature : List of Biographies and Their Authors
Biography	Author
Lives of the English Poets	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Life of Samuel Johnson	James Boswell
Life of Napoleon	Walter Scott
Life of Walter Scott	John Lockhart
Life of Dickens	E.M. Forster
Life of Nelson	Robert Southey
Life of John Sterling	Thomas Carlyle
Life of Schiller	Thomas Carlyle
Life of Carlyle	James Froude
Life of Gray	William Mason
Life of Pitt	Earl of Rosebery
Life of Macaulay	G.M. Trevelyan
Life of Gladstone	H. Morley
Life of Marlbrough	Winston Churchil
Life of Cowper (The Stricken Deer)	Devid Cecil
Life of Pepys	Arthur Brayant
Queen Victoria	Lytton Strachey
Eminent Victorians	Lytton Strachey
Biographia Literaria	S.T. Coleridge
Lives	Izaak Walton

Geoffrey Chaucer : Father of English Poetry

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. He is best known for The Canterbury Tales.