CZ:Literature Workgroup/English literature

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•  Geoffrey Chaucer: (1345-1400) English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales. ^[e]
•  Thomas Malory: Sir Thomas Malory (c1416?-1471) was the author of the classic English version of the "Matter of Britain": the tales of the legendary King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. ^[e]
• William Caxton: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas More: Add brief definition or description
• John Skelton: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Wyatt the Elder: Add brief definition or description
• Henry Howard: Add brief definition or description
• Philip Sidney: Add brief definition or description
•  Edmund Spenser: (1552 ? -1599), English poet, known particularly for his incomplete allegorical epic The Faerie Queene. ^[e]
• Christopher Marlowe: Add brief definition or description
•  William Shakespeare: (1564- 1616) English poet and playwright. ^[e]
• Thomas Nashe: Add brief definition or description
• Walter Raleigh: Add brief definition or description
• Robert Southwell: Add brief definition or description
• Samuel Daniel: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Campion: Add brief definition or description
• John Foxe: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Hoby: Add brief definition or description
• Richard Hooker: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Hariot: Add brief definition or description
•  John Donne: English metaphysical poet (1572-1631). ^[e]
•  Ben Jonson: Jacobean poet and playwright ^[e]
•  Robert Herrick: Robert Herrick was one of the finest 17th century lyrical poets and a clergyman. ^[e]
•  George Herbert: English metaphysical poet of the 17th century. ^[e]
• Richard Crashaw: Add brief definition or description
•  Henry Vaughan: 17th century Welsh poet, translator and writer of devotional works. ^[e]
•  Andrew Marvell: 17th century English poet and politician. ^[e]
•  John Milton: English 17th-century poet, author of Paradise Lost. ^[e]
• Francis Beaumont: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Carew: Add brief definition or description
• Edmund Waller: Add brief definition or description
• Richard Lovelace: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Traherne: Add brief definition or description
• Abraham Cowley: Add brief definition or description
•  Francis Bacon: (1561-1626) English Renaissance essayist and philosopher who argued that science should proceed empirically, by induction. ^[e]
• Robert Burton: Add brief definition or description
•  Samuel Pepys: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was an English naval administrator and the author of a revealing diary. ^[e]
• Jphn Dryden: Add brief definition or description
• John Bunyan: Add brief definition or description
• Daniel Defoe: Add brief definition or description
• Samuel Butler: Add brief definition or description
• Matthew Prior: Add brief definition or description
• John Gay: Add brief definition or description
• Jonathan Swift: Add brief definition or description
• Joseph Addison: Add brief definition or description
• Alexander Pope: Add brief definition or description
•  Samuel Johnson: Add brief definition or description
• James Boswell: Add brief definition or description
• Edmund Burke: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Gray: Add brief definition or description
• William Cowper: Add brief definition or description