Literature
A
Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926)
Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895)
ANONYMOUS (1100-1945)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
B
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
Mary Barber (1690-1757)
Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845)
Sabine Baring-Gould (1824-1924)
William Barnes (1801-1886)
Richard Barnfield (1574-1627)
David Bates (1809-1870)
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
Thomas Bateson (ca. 1570-1630)
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
James Beattie (1735-1803)
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
The Venerable Bede (673-735)
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
Robert Blair (1699-1746)
William Blake (1757-1827)
William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)
Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672)
Nicholas Breton (1555?-1626)
Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848)
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
William Browne (1590?-1645)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
Samuel Butler (1613-1680)
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Lord Byron (see George Gordon, lord Byron, 1788-1824)
C
Cædmon (fl. 658-80)
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
William Wilfred Campbell (1858?-1918)
Thomas Campion (1587-1620)
George Canning (1770-1827)
Richard Carew of Anthony (1555-1620)
Thomas Carew (1595?-1640)
Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
George Chapman (1559?-1634)
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400)
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582-1648)
Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
John Clare (1793-1864)
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
John Cleveland (1613-1658)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
William Collins (1721-1759)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Eliza Cook (1818-1889)
Dr. D. Cooper (fl. 1514)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Richard Corbet (1582-1635)
William Johnson Cory (1823-1892)
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
William Cowper (1731-1800)
George Crabbe (1754-1832)
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826-1887)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887)
D
Samuel Daniel (1563?-1619)
Sir William D'Avenant (1606-1668)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
John Davidson (1857-1909)
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Thomas Dekker (1570?-1632)
Sir John Denham (1615-1669)
John Dennis (1657-1734)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874)
Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (see Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898)
John Donne (1572-1631)
Earl of Dorset (see Charles Sackville, 1638-1706; and Thomas Sackville, 1536-1608)
Gavin Douglas (1475?-1522)
Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895)
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649)
William Henry Drummond (1854-1907)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
William Dunbar (1456?-1513?)
Sir Edward Dyer (1543-1607)
E
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (see George Eliot, 1819-1880)
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815-1904)
Sir George Etherege (ca. 1635-1691)
F
Owen Felltham (1602?-1668)
Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
Eugene Field (1850-1895)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Giles Fletcher the Younger (1585?-1623)
John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)
Thomas Ford (1580?-1648)
Stephen C. Foster (1826-1864)
J. H. Frere (1769-1846)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Sarah Fyge (Egerton) (1670-1723)
G
George Gascoigne (ca. 1534-1577)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865)
John Gay (1685-1732)
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
John Gower (1330?-1408)
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650)
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
William Gray of Reading (?-1557)
Robert Greene (1560-1592)
Julian Grenfell (1888-1915)
Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke (1554-1628)
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
H
William Habington (1605-1654)
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Gabriel Harvey (ca. 1550-1631)
Stephen Hawes (ca. 1475-1511)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Caroline Hayward (fl. 1855)
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Henry VIII, king of England (1491-1547)
Robert Henryson (1424?-1506?)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Arthur Clement Hilton (1851-1877)
Thomas Hoccleve (1369?-1426)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
George Moses Horton (1797?-ca. 1880)
John Hoskyns (1566-1638)
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
Joseph Howe (1804-1873)
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883-1917)
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
J
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
James I, of Scotland (1394-1437)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake; 1861-1913)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
K
John Keats (1795-1821)
Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)
Anne Killigrew (1660-1685)
Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
Benjamin Franklin King (1857-1894)
Henry King (1592-1669)
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Raymond Knister (1899-1932) L
Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
Frederick Locker Lampson (1821-1895)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
William Langland (ca. 1330-ca. 1386)
Æmilia Lanyer (1569-1645)
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
Mary Leapor (1722-1746)
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Amy Levy (1861-1889)
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)
Jack London (1876-1916)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
Robert Lowry (1826-1899)
John Lydgate (1370?-1449)
John Lyly (1554-1606)
M
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
Evan MacColl (1808-1898)
Dr. John McCrae (1872-1918)
George MacDonald (1824-1905)
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
James Macpherson (1736-1796)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
John Marston (1575?-1634)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
George Meredith (1828-1909)
Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
William Mickle (1735-1788)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
John Milton (1608-1674)
Mary Monck (ca. 1678-1715)
Lady Mary Wortley Mon***u (1689-1762)
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer (fl. 1907)
Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Mother Goose (18th cent.)
Anthony Munday (1560-1633)
N
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
John Henry Newman, Cardinal (1801-1890)
John Newton (1725-1807)
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
O
John Oldham (1653-1683)
Amelia Opie (1769-1853)
Wilfred Owen (1893-Nov. 4, 1918)
P
Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
Walter Pater (1839-1894)
Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
George Peele (1556-1596)
Martin Peerson (1571?-1650)
Thomas Percy (1728-1811)
Katherine Philips (1631-1664)
Marjorie Pickthall (1883-1922)
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Alexander Pope (1688-1731)
Walter Porter (ca. 1590?-1659)
Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972)
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
Adelaide A. Procter (1825-1864)
George Puttenham (ca. 1529-91)
Q
Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
R
Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552-1618)
Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
Earl of Rochester (see John Wilmot, 1647-1680)
William Roscoe (1753-1831)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
S
Charles Sackville, earl of Dorset (1638-1706)
Thomas Sackville, earl of Dorset (1536-1608)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947)
Frederick George Scott (1861-1944)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876)
Sir Charles Sedley (1639?-1701)
Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Robert W. Service (1874-1958)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
William Shenstone (1714-1763)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
James Shirley (1596-1666)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
John Skelton (1460?-1529)
Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
Arabella Eugenia Smith (ca. 1844-1916)
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Robert Southwell, SJ (1561?-1595)
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Thomas Sprat (1635-1713)
James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892)
Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
William Stevenson (fl. 1553)
Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
William Strode (1602-1645)
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1517?-1547)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Joshua Sylvester (ca. 1563-1618)
T
Ann Taylor (1782-1866) and Jane Taylor (1783-1824)
Tekahionwake (see E. Pauline Johnson, 1861-1913)
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1883)
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940)
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
James Thomson (1700-1748)
James Thomson (1834-1882)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Chidiock Tichborne (ca. 1558-86)
Thomas Tickell (1685-1740)
Augustus Mon***ue Toplady (1740-1778)
Thomas Traherne (1636-1674)
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835-1910
V
Henry Vaughan (1621?-1695)
Thomas Lord Vaux (1509-1556)
W
Annie Louisa Walker (1836-1907)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
William Warner (ca. 1558-1609)
Joseph Warton (1722-1800)
Thomas Warton the younger (1728-1790)
Frances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911)
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
John Webster (ca. 1578-c.1632)
Thomas Weelkes (1576?-1623)
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
John Wesley (1703-1791)
R. Wever (fl. ca. 1549-1553)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784)
Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
John Wilbye (1574-1638)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
John Wilmot, earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
George Wither (1588-1667)
Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Henry Clay Work (1832-1884)
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
Y
Edward Young (1683-1765
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Literature
Authors Index of English Literature
A
Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926)
Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895)
ANONYMOUS (1100-1945)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
B
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
Mary Barber (1690-1757)
Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845)
Sabine Baring-Gould (1824-1924)
William Barnes (1801-1886)
Richard Barnfield (1574-1627)
David Bates (1809-1870)
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
Thomas Bateson (ca. 1570-1630)
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
James Beattie (1735-1803)
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
The Venerable Bede (673-735)
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
Robert Blair (1699-1746)
William Blake (1757-1827)
William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)
Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672)
Nicholas Breton (1555?-1626)
Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848)
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
William Browne (1590?-1645)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
Samuel Butler (1613-1680)
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Lord Byron (see George Gordon, lord Byron, 1788-1824)
C
Cædmon (fl. 658-80)
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
William Wilfred Campbell (1858?-1918)
Thomas Campion (1587-1620)
George Canning (1770-1827)
Richard Carew of Anthony (1555-1620)
Thomas Carew (1595?-1640)
Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
George Chapman (1559?-1634)
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400)
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582-1648)
Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
John Clare (1793-1864)
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
John Cleveland (1613-1658)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
William Collins (1721-1759)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Eliza Cook (1818-1889)
Dr. D. Cooper (fl. 1514)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Richard Corbet (1582-1635)
William Johnson Cory (1823-1892)
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
William Cowper (1731-1800)
George Crabbe (1754-1832)
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826-1887)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887)
D
Samuel Daniel (1563?-1619)
Sir William D'Avenant (1606-1668)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
John Davidson (1857-1909)
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Thomas Dekker (1570?-1632)
Sir John Denham (1615-1669)
John Dennis (1657-1734)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874)
Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (see Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898)
John Donne (1572-1631)
Earl of Dorset (see Charles Sackville, 1638-1706; and Thomas Sackville, 1536-1608)
Gavin Douglas (1475?-1522)
Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895)
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649)
William Henry Drummond (1854-1907)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
William Dunbar (1456?-1513?)
Sir Edward Dyer (1543-1607)
E
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (see George Eliot, 1819-1880)
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815-1904)
Sir George Etherege (ca. 1635-1691)
F
Owen Felltham (1602?-1668)
Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
Eugene Field (1850-1895)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Giles Fletcher the Younger (1585?-1623)
John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)
Thomas Ford (1580?-1648)
Stephen C. Foster (1826-1864)
J. H. Frere (1769-1846)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Sarah Fyge (Egerton) (1670-1723)
G
George Gascoigne (ca. 1534-1577)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865)
John Gay (1685-1732)
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
John Gower (1330?-1408)
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650)
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
William Gray of Reading (?-1557)
Robert Greene (1560-1592)
Julian Grenfell (1888-1915)
Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke (1554-1628)
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
H
William Habington (1605-1654)
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Gabriel Harvey (ca. 1550-1631)
Stephen Hawes (ca. 1475-1511)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Caroline Hayward (fl. 1855)
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Henry VIII, king of England (1491-1547)
Robert Henryson (1424?-1506?)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Arthur Clement Hilton (1851-1877)
Thomas Hoccleve (1369?-1426)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
George Moses Horton (1797?-ca. 1880)
John Hoskyns (1566-1638)
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
Joseph Howe (1804-1873)
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883-1917)
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
J
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
James I, of Scotland (1394-1437)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake; 1861-1913)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
K
John Keats (1795-1821)
Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)
Anne Killigrew (1660-1685)
Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
Benjamin Franklin King (1857-1894)
Henry King (1592-1669)
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Raymond Knister (1899-1932) L
Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
Frederick Locker Lampson (1821-1895)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
William Langland (ca. 1330-ca. 1386)
Æmilia Lanyer (1569-1645)
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
Mary Leapor (1722-1746)
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Amy Levy (1861-1889)
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)
Jack London (1876-1916)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
Robert Lowry (1826-1899)
John Lydgate (1370?-1449)
John Lyly (1554-1606)
M
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
Evan MacColl (1808-1898)
Dr. John McCrae (1872-1918)
George MacDonald (1824-1905)
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
James Macpherson (1736-1796)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
John Marston (1575?-1634)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
George Meredith (1828-1909)
Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
William Mickle (1735-1788)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
John Milton (1608-1674)
Mary Monck (ca. 1678-1715)
Lady Mary Wortley Mon***u (1689-1762)
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer (fl. 1907)
Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Mother Goose (18th cent.)
Anthony Munday (1560-1633)
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Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
John Henry Newman, Cardinal (1801-1890)
John Newton (1725-1807)
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
O
John Oldham (1653-1683)
Amelia Opie (1769-1853)
Wilfred Owen (1893-Nov. 4, 1918)
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Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
Walter Pater (1839-1894)
Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
George Peele (1556-1596)
Martin Peerson (1571?-1650)
Thomas Percy (1728-1811)
Katherine Philips (1631-1664)
Marjorie Pickthall (1883-1922)
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Alexander Pope (1688-1731)
Walter Porter (ca. 1590?-1659)
Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972)
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
Adelaide A. Procter (1825-1864)
George Puttenham (ca. 1529-91)
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Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
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Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552-1618)
Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
Earl of Rochester (see John Wilmot, 1647-1680)
William Roscoe (1753-1831)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
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Charles Sackville, earl of Dorset (1638-1706)
Thomas Sackville, earl of Dorset (1536-1608)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947)
Frederick George Scott (1861-1944)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876)
Sir Charles Sedley (1639?-1701)
Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Robert W. Service (1874-1958)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
William Shenstone (1714-1763)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
James Shirley (1596-1666)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
John Skelton (1460?-1529)
Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
Arabella Eugenia Smith (ca. 1844-1916)
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Robert Southwell, SJ (1561?-1595)
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Thomas Sprat (1635-1713)
James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892)
Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
William Stevenson (fl. 1553)
Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
William Strode (1602-1645)
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1517?-1547)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Joshua Sylvester (ca. 1563-1618)
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Ann Taylor (1782-1866) and Jane Taylor (1783-1824)
Tekahionwake (see E. Pauline Johnson, 1861-1913)
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1883)
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940)
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
James Thomson (1700-1748)
James Thomson (1834-1882)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Chidiock Tichborne (ca. 1558-86)
Thomas Tickell (1685-1740)
Augustus Mon***ue Toplady (1740-1778)
Thomas Traherne (1636-1674)
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835-1910
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Henry Vaughan (1621?-1695)
Thomas Lord Vaux (1509-1556)
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Annie Louisa Walker (1836-1907)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
William Warner (ca. 1558-1609)
Joseph Warton (1722-1800)
Thomas Warton the younger (1728-1790)
Frances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911)
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
John Webster (ca. 1578-c.1632)
Thomas Weelkes (1576?-1623)
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
John Wesley (1703-1791)
R. Wever (fl. ca. 1549-1553)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784)
Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
John Wilbye (1574-1638)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
John Wilmot, earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
George Wither (1588-1667)
Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Henry Clay Work (1832-1884)
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
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Edward Young (1683-1765
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