Among these pillars of English literature were Jonathan Swift, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Edmund Burke.

• 在这些英语文学的巨擘中有乔纳森?斯威夫特、威廉?巴特勒?叶芝、詹姆士?乔伊斯、塞缪尔?贝克特、奥斯卡?王尔德、乔治?萧伯纳以及埃德蒙?伯克。