id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4184 British literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 17486 1569 65 1110 – after 1174), who wrote in Norman-French, is the earliest known poet from Jersey; he also developed the Arthurian legend.[17]) At the end of the 12th century, Layamon in Brut adapted Wace to make the first English-language work to use the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Generally regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language, Shelley is perhaps best known for poems such as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark and Adonaïs, an elegy written on the death of Keats.[93] Mary Shelley (1797–1851) is remembered as the author of Frankenstein (1818), an important Gothic novel, as well as being an early example of science fiction.[94] Alun Lewis (1915–1944), born in South Wales, was one of the best-known English-language poets of the war[126] The Second World War has remained a theme in British literature. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4184.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4184.txt