Literature
- Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot, KCSI, writer
- Matthew Arnold, Victorian poet and critic (son of Headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold)
- Rupert Brooke, English poet
- Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Richard Doyle, English author
- Anthony Horowitz, English writer
- Edmund George Valpy Knox, editor of Punch
- Walter Savage Landor, English writer and poet
- Wyndham Lewis, British painter and author
- John Gillespie Magee, Junior, Anglo-American poet and aviator
- Arthur Ransome, British children's author
- Sir Salman Rushdie, author and essayist, Booker Prize winner for Midnight's Children. Said of his time: "Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too."
- J.K. Stanford, English author
- Francis Stuart, IRA member, Nazi collaborator and Irish novelist.
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Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers—such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
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—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)