Bio-Author   List

-Old English Prose: King Alfred

Middle English Literature (The Coming of the Normans)

Geoffrey Chaucer(ca. 1343-1400)

William Langland

Sir Thomas Malory(ca. 1405-1471)

Prose

The Scottish Literature
The Sixteenth Century(1458-1603)

Sir Thomas More(1478-1535)

John Skelton(ca. 1460-1529)

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder(1503-1542)

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)

Beginning of Drama

English Drama

Thomas Kyd, Nicholas Udall, George Peele, John Lyly, Robert Greene

University Wits

Early Elizabethan Drama

Christopher Marlowe(1554-1593)

William Shakespeare(1564-1616)

Other Elizabethan Dramatists

Ben Jonson: See the 17th Century

Beaumont and Fletcher

John Webster(1580?-1625): See the 17th Century

Thomas Nashe(1567-1601)

Songs and Poems of the 16th Century
Arthur Golding (1536-1605)
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke(1562-1621)
Queen Elizabeth(1533-1603)
George Gascoigne(1539-1578)
Robert Southwell(1561-1595)
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
Sir John Davies(1569-1626)
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke(1554-1628)
Lady Mary Wroth(1587?-1651?)

Anonymous:

Elizabethan Prose:

Robert Burton: See the 17th Century

Francis Bacon: See the 17th Century

The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)

John Donne(1572-1631)

Ben Jonson(1572-1637)

John Webster(1580?-1625)

Robert Herrick(1591-1674)


George Herbert(1593-1633)

Richard Crashaw(ca. 1613-1649)

Henry Vaughan(1621-1695)

Andrew Marvell(1621-1678)

John Milton (1608-1674)

Poetic Modes of the Early Seventeenth Century
Henry King (1592-1669)
Thomas Carew(1595-1640)
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
Richard Lovelace(1618-1657)
Edmund Waller(1606-1687)
Sir John Denham(1615-1669)
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

Prose of the Early Seventeenth Century

Francis Bacon(1561-1626)

Robert Burton(1577-1640)

Thomas Hobbes (1558-1679)

Izaak Walton (1593-1683)

Sir Thomas Browne(1605-1682)

The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century(1660-1798)                        (Age of Dryden)

John Dryden(1631-1700)

Samuel Pepys(1633-1703)

John Bunvan(1628-1688)

William Congreve(1670-1729)

Daniel Defoe(ca. 1660-1731)

Poetry: Augustan Modes

Samuel Butler(1612-1680)

John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester(1647-1680)

Anne Finch (1661-1720)

Matthew Prior(1664-1721)

John Gay(1685-1732)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu(1689-1762)

Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)

Joseph Addition and Sir Richard Steele
Steele
Addison

Alexander  Pope(1688-1744)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

James Boswell (1 740-1795)

The Poetry of Sensibility

James Thompson(1700-1748)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

William Collins (1721-1759)

Christopher Smart(1722-1759)

Oliver Goldsmith(ca. 1730-1774)

George Crabbe(1754-1832)

William Cowper(1731-1800)