PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Medieval
Literature
Renaissance
Literature
17th Century
Literature
Restoration &
18th Century
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Gower
Sir Gawain
William Langland
Medieval Lyrics
Medieval Plays
Julian of Norwich
Margery Kempe
Sir Thomas Malory
Everyman
King Henry VIII
Queen Elizabeth I
Bishop John Fisher
William Tyndale
Sir Thomas More
John Heywood
Thomas Sackville
Nicholas Udall
John Skelton
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Henry Howard
Hugh Latimer
Thomas Cranmer
Roger Ascham
Sir Thomas Hoby
John Foxe
George Gascoigne
John Lyly
Thomas Nashe
Sir Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
Richard Hooker
Robert Southwell
Robert Greene
George Peele
Thomas Kyd
Edward de Vere
Christopher Marlowe
Anthony Munday
Sir Walter Ralegh
Thomas Hariot
Thomas Campion
Mary Sidney Herbert
Sir John Davies
Samuel Daniel
Michael Drayton
Fulke Greville
Emilia Lanyer
William Shakespeare
King James VI & I
Sir Francis Bacon
Lancelot Andrewes
Sir Thomas Overbury
William Alabaster
John Donne
Joseph Hall
Ben Jonson
Thomas Dekker
John Marston
Francis Beaumont
John Fletcher
Thomas Middleton
John Webster
William Rowley
Philip Massinger
Thomas Heywood
Edward Herbert
Lady Mary Wroth
George Herbert
Thomas Carew
Francis Quarles
Robert Herrick
Thomas Hobbes
John Ford
James Shirley
Mildmay Fane
Sir John Suckling
Richard Crashaw
Richard Lovelace
Abraham Cowley
John Milton
Sir Thomas Browne
Edmund Waller
Andrew Marvell
Henry Vaughan
Margaret Cavendish
Dorothy Osborne
Katherine Philips
Sir Isaac Newton


Samuel Butler
John Dryden
Samuel Pepys
John Bunyan
Aphra Behn
Earl of Rochester
Anne Finch
William Congreve
Mary Astell
Matthew Prior
Daniel Defoe
John Gay
Mary Wortley Montagu
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Addison
Sir Richard Steele
Alexander Pope
James Thomson
Samuel Johnson
Thomas Gray
William Collins
Christopher Smart
Oliver Goldsmith
George Crabbe
William Cowper