NOSEGAY.SR.SEC.

SCHOOL
Affiliated to C.B.S.E. New Delhi

Railway.Harthala Colony Moradabad

Session 2023-2024

ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT

NAME- MAYANK SINGH

CLASS-12th
SUB-ENGLISH

Submitted by- Mayank singh Submitted to – Mr.Rashid sir

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I’m extremely grateful to all the people who have helped me in

completing this project.
Primarily, I would thank God for being able to complete this project
with success. Then I will thank my Principal mam(miss seema nagpal)
and teacher(mr.rashid.sir), under whose guidance I learned a lot about
this project. His suggestions and directions have helped in the
completion of this project.
Finally, I would like to thank my parents and friends who have helped
me with their valuable suggestions and guidance and have been very
helpful in various stages of project completion.
 CONTENT

ENGLISH WRITTERS

1-Jane austin

2-Charles dickens

3-John milton

4-Harold pinter

5-Geoffrey chaucer

6-George eliot
 Jane Austen 1775 – 1817

‘Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best

loved of Bath’s many famous residents and
visitors.’
One wonders at the restraint in that,
considering that Jane Austen is indisputably
one of the greatest English writers – some say
the greatest after Shakespeare – and
certainly the greatest English novelist and
one of the most famous English women who
ever lived. The insights found in Jane
Austen’s quotes from her many works is very
impressive

Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817 at the age of 41. We do not have an accurate
diagnosis of the cause of her death but medical researchers think it may have
been the rare disease, Addison’s disease of the suprarenal glands.
Charles Dickens 1812-1870

Charles Dickens was an extraordinary man.

He is best known as a novelist but he was
very much more than that. He was as
prominent in his other pursuits but they
were not areas of life where we can still see
him today. We see him as the author of such
classics as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield,
Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak
House and many others. All of his novels are
English classics.
Dickens had an almost unbelievable level of
energy. In addition to writing all those
lengthy books in long-hand, he had time to
pursue what would have been full-time
careers for most people in acting, literary
editing social campaigning and
philanthropic administration. He was also
the father of a large family, as well as being
involved in a love affair that lasted many
years.
 John Milton 1608-1674

English is often referred to as ‘the language

of Shakespeare and Milton.’ Milton’s poetry
has been seen as the most perfect poetic
expression in the English language for four
centuries.
His most famous poem, the epic Paradise
Lost is a high point of English epic poetry. Its
story has entered into English and European
culture to such an extent that the details of
our ideas of heaven and hell and paradise,
Adam and Eve, Satan and his legions’ war
against God, the arch angel Gabriel and all of
those Genesis characters and events, come
from Milton’s imagining of them in this
poem
Milton was a man of letters, and a civil servant. He was politically active – a pamphleteer
– a republican and supporter of Oliver Cromwell. Although by the time of his
death Paradise Lost was already being spoken of as the greatest poem in the English
language he died poor, as a result of his republican views and anti-monarchist
involvement.
Harold Pinter 1930-2008

Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for

Literature in 2005, three years before his
death from cancer. He had a career of more
than half a century as a playwright, director,
actor and writer of screenplays for television
and film.
He was without doubt the most influential
English playwright of the twentieth century
and so earns his place on this list. Like Charles
Dickens, he was not only an actor and a
leading man of letters of his time, but also a
campaigner – in his case mainly political.
Although in later life he expressed disdain for
political organisations, in his younger days he
was active in the Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament and the Anti-Apartheid
Movement. He opposed the Gulf War of 1991,
the Afghanistan war and the invasion of Iraq.
Although he was a Jew he supported the
Palestine cause and spoke out in its support.
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400
Geoffrey Chaucer stands as the great giant of English poetry.
His verse is still read and enjoyed today and often adapted
for theatre performances. It is full of characters, still
recognisable as types we encounter in daily life in spite of
having been inspired by people Chaucer observed more than
seven hundred years ago.
There is a freshness in Chaucer’s poetry. His characters act
their lives out in every conceivable human situation from
the deeply serious to the crude, belly laughing comical. His
stories are both funny and thought-provoking: people
caught in sexual mix-ups; two young knights fighting to the
death for the love of a beautiful young woman; a badly
behaved young knight travelling the country on a desperate
quest to find the answer to a question that will save his life
and learning a great lesson; the tragic love story of Tristan
the son of the Trojan king, and the beautiful young Isolde;
young wives giving their old husbands the slip to sleep with
handsome young suitors. The list of human tales goes on
indefinitely, and all of them still appealing to the modern
reader. If a writer can connect with a readership seven
centuries after his death he is most certainly a great writer.
George Eliot 1819-1880

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann

Evans, a novelist who produced some of the
major classic novels of the Victorian era,
including The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, Silas
Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Daniel Deronda and
her masterpiece, Middlemarch.
It is impossible to overestimate the
significance of Eliot’s novels in the English
culture: they went right to the heart of the
small-town politics that made up the fabric of
English society. Her novels were essentially
political: Middlemarch is set in a small town just
as the Reform Bill of 1832 was about to be
introduced. She goes right into the minutia of
the town’s people’s several concerns, creating
numerous immortal characters whose
interactions reveal Eliot’s deep insight into
human psychology