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
English-language Literature
Ben Jonson | John Webster | Andrew Marvell | John Donne | Richard Crashaw | Henry Vaughan | Thomas Traherne | George Herbert | metaphysical poets | John Dryden | Alexander Pope | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | Jane Austen | Charles Dickens | Emily Brontë | Charlotte Brontë | Anne Brontë | William Makepeace Thackeray | Thomas Hardy | G.K. Chesterton
William Cullen Bryant | Richard Condon | Michael Gilbert | Donald Hamilton