Literature in English

(Arranged by author's date of birth.) Indices. Early Centuries. Caedmon (7th C). Aelfric (c.955-c.1020). Anonymous Writings (10th-11th centuries). Medieval Lyrics (12th-15th centuries). Medieval Ballads (13th-15th centuries). 1300s. “Sir John Mandeville” (France, c.1300-1372). John Wyclif (c.1330-1384). Dame Julian of Norwich (c.1342-after 1416). Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400). Thomas Hoccleve (c.1369-c.1426). Margery Kempe (c.1373-c.1439). Charles d'Orléans (1394-1465). 1400s. Sir Thomas Malory (d.1471). William Caxton (c.1422-1491). Robert Henryson (c.1424-c.1506). William Dunbar (c.1460-c.1513). John Skelton (c.1460-1529). John Bourchier, Lord Berners (1467-1533). Sebastian Cabot (1474-1557). Sir Thomas More (c.1477-1535). Sir David Lindsay (c.1486-1555). William Tyndale (c.1495-1536). John Heywood (c.1497-c.1580). 1500s. Anonymous (16th C). Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542). Thomas, Lord Vaux (1509-1556). Roger Ascham (1515-1568). Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (c.1517-1547). Thomas Tusser (c.1524-1580). Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). George Gascoigne (C.1534-1577). Barnabe Googe (1540-1594). George Turberville (c.1544-c.1597). Sir Edward Dyer (1543-1607). Edmund Spenser (1552-1599). Raphael Holinshed (d.c.1580). Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616). Sir Walter Raleigh (c.1552-1618). John Florio (c.1553-1625). Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586). Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628). Nicholas Breton (c. 1555-1626). George Peele (1556-1596). Thomas Morley (1557-1602). Chidiock Tichborne (c.1558-1586). Thomas Lodge (1558-1625). Thomas Deloney (c.1560-1600). Anthony Munday (1560-1633). Robert Southwell (c.1561-1595). Humphrey Gifford (fl.1580). Sir John Harington (c.1561-1612). Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621). Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Samuel Daniel (1563-1619). Michael Drayton (1563-1631). Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593). William Shakespeare (1564-1616). King James I (1566-1625). Thomas Nashe (1567-1601). Thomas Campion (1567-1620). Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639). Sir John Davies (1569-1626). Amelia (Bassano) Lanyer (1569-1645). Thomas Dekker (c.1570-1632). John Donne (1572-1631). Ben Jonson (1572-1637). Joseph Hall (1574-1656). Robert Hayman (1575-1629). George Sandys (1578-1644). John Taylor (1580-1653). Bartholomew Griffin (fl.1596). Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613). Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650). Sir John Beaumont (1583-1627). Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648). William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649). Lady Mary Wroth (c.1587-c.1652). George Wither (1588-1667). Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Robert Herrick (1591-1674). Francis Quarles (1592-1644). Henry King (1592-1669). George Herbert (1593-1633). Izaak Walton (1593-1683). Thomas Carew (c.1595-1640). 1600s. Anonymous (17th C). John Earle (c. 1601-1665). Owen Felltham (c.1602-1668). William Habington (1605-1654). Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Edmund Waller (1606-1687). Thomas Fuller (1608-1661). John Milton (1608-1674). Bathsua (Reynolds) Makin (1600-c.1675). Sir John Suckling (1609-1641). Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). Samuel Butler (1612-1680). Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667). Sir John Denham (1615-1669). Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1664). Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704). Richard Lovelace (1618-1658). Abraham Cowley (1618-1667). John Evelyn (1620-1706). Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683). Henry Vaughan (1621-1695). Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673). Dorothy Osborne (1627-1695). John Bunyan (1628-1688). Charles Cotton (1630-1687). John Dryden (1631-1700). Katherine (Fowler) Philips (1632-1664). John Locke (1632-1704). George Savile, First Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695). Thoma