John Milton09 December 1608
Poet, Polemicist, and Civil Servant for the
Alexander Pope21 May 1688
John Dryden09 August 1631
poet
Aphra Behn10 July 1640
Playwright
Joseph Addison01 May 1672
Essayist & Poet
Andrew Marvell31 March 1621
Poet
Anne Bradstreet20 March 1612
Poet
Emilia Lanier31 December 1569
Poet
John Gay30 June 1685
Dramatist & Poet
Edward Young03 July 1683
Poet
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu15 May 1689
Writer
Isaac Watts17 July 1674
Theologian
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham30 January 1628
Politician
William Congreve24 January 1670
Playwright, Poet, Writer, Translator
Richard Baxter12 November 1615
Poet
John Lyly1553 AD
Writer
Thomas Nashe31 October 1567
Playwright
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby08 September 1647
Former Lord Privy Seal
Mary Sidney27 October 1561
Countess
Richard Lovelace09 December 1617
Poet
Eliza Haywood1693 AD
British author
Thomas Traherne10 October 1636
Poet
Mary Astell12 November 1666
Writer, Philosopher, Feminist
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset1536 AD
Poet
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke03 October 1554
Writer
Thomas Carew1595 AD
Poet
Richard Crashaw1612 AD
Poet
Thomas Overbury18 June 1581
Poet
Henry Wotton30 March 1568
Author
Thomas Shadwell1642 AD
Poet
Edward Taylor1642 AD
Poet
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Samuel Daniel1562 AD
Poet
Charles Cotton28 April 1630
Poet
Gervase Markham1568 AD
Poet
Katherine Philips01 January 1632
Poet
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester19 November 1563
Statesman
John Davies (poet)16 April 1569
Poet
Anthony Munday1560 AD
Playwright
John Marston07 October 1576
Poet
George Sandys02 March 1578
Traveler
Francis Quarles08 May 1592
Poet
George Wither11 June 1588
Poet
Richard Blackmore22 January 1654
Poet
Robert South04 September 1634
Theologian
John Dyer1699 AD
Painter
Michael Wigglesworth18 October 1631
Minister
Phineas Fletcher08 April 1582
Poet
Francis Meres30 November 1565
Author
John Davies16 April 1569
English poet and writing master
John Cleveland16 June 1613
Poet
Edward Dyer30 September 1543
Courtier
Thomas Deloney1543 AD
Novelist
Richard Brathwait1588 AD
Poet
Giles Fletcher, the Elder1548 AD
Poet
Richard Flecknoe1600 AD
Author
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet31 May 1608
Poet
Giles Fletcher1586 AD
Poet
Thomas May1595 AD
Poet
Thomas Tickell17 December 1685
Writer
Aaron Hill10 February 1685
Poet, Playwright, Essayist
Laurence Eusden06 September 1688
Poet
Nicholas Breton1545 AD
Poet
William Alabaster27 February 1567
Poet
Edward Benlowes12 July 1603
Poet
Robert Herrick24 August 1591
Poet
Thomas Randolph15 June 1605
Poet
Nicholas Brady28 October 1659
Author
Elijah Fenton20 May 1683
Poet
Josuah Sylvester1563 AD
Poet
Nicholas Rowe20 June 1674
Poet
Henry Carey26 August 1687
Poet
Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet1583 AD
Poet
Nicholas Amhurst16 October 1697
Poet
Thomas Jordan1612 AD
Poet
Edmund Bolton1575 AD
Historian
John Chalkhill1594 AD
English poet
John Norris1657 AD
British priest and philosopher
William Broome1689 AD
Poet
Alexander Brome1620 AD
Poet, Translator
William Cartwright01 September 1611
British writer
John Denham1615 AD
Poet
Roger North03 September 1653
Writer and Lawyer
William Somerville02 September 1675
Poet
John Suckling10 February 1609
Poet and dramatist
John Oldham09 August 1653
Poet
Sidney Godolphin1610 AD
Poet
Sir George Etherege1636 AD
Dramatist
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert03 March 1582
Soldier
Charles Montagu, 1st earl of Halifax16 April 1661
Poet
Charles Sackville, 6th earl of Dorset24 January 1638
English noble
Thomas D'Urfey1653 AD
Writer
Thomas Traheyron1636 AD