English Literature books start with the call number PR. For details about specific call numbers (sub-classified by period, criticism, collections, individual authors, etc.) see the document below.
Here is a list of some English authors and their corresponding Library of Congress call numbers. You can find books about them and/or authored by them in the stacks.
| Austen, Jane - PR4030-4038 | Lewis, C.S. - PR6023 .E926 |
| Blake, William - PR4140-4148 | Marlowe, Christopher - PR2660-PR2678 |
| Bronte, Emily - PR4172-4173 | Milton, John - PR3550-3598 |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - PR4180-4198 | Orwell, George - PR6029.R8 |
| Burns, Robert - PR4300-PR4348 | Pope, Alexander - PR3620-PR3638 |
| Byron, George Gordon (Lord) - PR4350-4398 | Shakespeare, William - PR2750-PR3112 |
| Chaucer, Geoffery - PR1850-PR1954 | Shelley, Mary - PR5397-5398 |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - PR4470-4488 | Shelley, Percy Bysshe - PR5400-5448 |
| Dickens, Charles - PR4550-4598 | Stoker, Bram - PR6037.T617 |
| Forster, E.M. - PR6011 .O58 | Tennyson, Alfred Lord - PR5550-5598 |
| Jonson, Ben - PR2600-PR2648 | Thackeray, William Makepeace - PR5600-PR648 |
| Joyce, James - PR6019.O9-PR6019.O9U425 |
Wilde, Oscar - PR5810-PR5828 |
| Keats, John - PR4830-4838 | Woolf, Virgina - PS3545 .I5365 |
| Kipling, Rudyard - PR4850-4858 | Wordsworth, William - PR5850-PR5898 |
| Lawrence, D.H. - PR6023.A93 | Yeats, William Butler - PR5900.A1-PR5908.S8 |
A Dictionary of Literature in the English Language by A guide to English literature by Crowell's Handbook of Elizabethan and Stuart Literature by 
Reference Works in British and American Literature by The Oxford Companion to English Literature by 
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