Poets Timeline
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Bio Charles was born on 24 November 1394, the first surviving son of Louis d'Orléans and Valentina Visconti of Milan. The Duchess Valentina was banished from court in 1396 and as a result, Charles and his siblings were brought up in their father's multiple châteaux along the Loire. From an…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Middle English -
Bio The son of Henry V and Catherine of Valois, Henry was born Dec. 6, 1421, and came to the throne of England and then of France on his father's death, Sept. 1, 1422. John, duke of Bedford, was appointed protector on Dec. 5. Henry was crowned Nov. 12, 1437, and married Margaret of Anjou,…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Middle English
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Bio François Villon is France's first great poet. Born in 1431, he is known to have studied at the University of Paris between 1449 and 1452. Villon disappeared from view in 1463 but in the record of his brief career there are many accounts of encounters with university authorities and the…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509 very young and united the houses of York and Lancaster, the white and red roses. Having been tutored by the poet John Skelton, and entrusting government for the first decade of his reign to Cardinal…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Tudor -
Bio Sir Thomas Wyatt was born at Allington Castle, Kent, in 1503, the son of Henry Wyatt and Anne Skinner. He was educated at St. John's College Cambridge, become a diplomat in the service of Henry VIII about 1526 and travelled to Italy first in 1527. After a brief imprisonment for his…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Tudor -
Bio Like Wyatt's poems, Surrey's were circulated in manuscript during his lifetime. A number of them were first printed in Tottel's Miscellany of 1557 (cf. introductory note to Wyatt above). The text in Representative Poetry is based on the manuscript versions of the poems, which were first…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Tudor -
Bio Thomas Kyme, Anne's husband, expelled her from their Lincolnshire home, after Anne herself left him to preach in London, denying the doctrine of transubstantiation, which holds that the bread and wine of the Christian mass or communion are literally transformed into the body and blood of…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Tudor -
Bio Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560) was a member of the group of poets known as the "Pléiade." He was the author of the celebrated Defense et Illustration de la langue francoyse (1549), which sought to break with mediaeval traditions mainly by following the example of the best Greek and Latin…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), who was the leader of the "Pléiade," is a poet of superlative technique and tremendous variety. After a brief career as a page in the royal household, cut short by an illness which left him deaf, Ronsard along with Du Bellay became a member of a group which…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Rémy Belleau (1528-1577) was also a member of the "Pléiade" and an enthusiastic student of the classics. He imitated Anacreon in his Petites Inventions (1556), but is best known for his Bergerie (1565), a pastoral narrative interspersed with poems. Belleau excels in descriptive poetry…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Edmund Bolton attributed The Arte of English Poesie, published anonymously, to George Puttenham in Hypercritica (composed by Bolton in 1621, published in 1722). Puttenham was the nephew of Sir Thomas Elyot, the maker of the first Latin-English dictionary. Little else is known of…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Elizabethan
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Bio italic test Zim, Rivkah. "Sackville, Thomas, first Baron Buckhurst and first earl of Dorset (c.1536–1608)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oct. 2009.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Tudor
