Poets Timeline
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Bio Monson, Craig. “Byrd, William (1542/3?-1623).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Elizabethan -
Bio A standard edition is The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition, ed. Edwin Greenlaw, et al. (9 vols.; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1932-49). A good single-volume edition, without notes, is The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, ed. J. C. Smith and E. de Selincourt (London:…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Elizabethan -
Bio Nicholls, Mark and Penry Williams. "Ralegh, Sir Walter (1554–1618)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Elizabethan -
Bio Craik, Katharine A. "Warner, William (1558/9–1609)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Elizabethan
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Bio Tichborne was executed for having become a party to a Catholic plot to murder Elizabeth. Although not quite as young as his farewell poem suggests, written within three days of his death, the verses were famous in the period. Williams, Penry. "Babington, Anthony (1561–1586)." Oxford…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Tudor
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Bio Burnett, Mark Thornton. “Chapman, George (1559/60-1634).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Elizabethan -
Bio Brown, Nancy Pollard. "Southwell, Robert [St Robert Southwell] (1561–1595)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Elizabethan -
Bio Daniel's Complete Works were edited by A. B. Grosart and published in five volumes, 1885-96. The Defense of Ryme and a selection of the poems were edited by A. C. Sprague (Harvard University Press, 1930).Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Elizabethan
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Bio Snyder, Susan. "Sylvester, Josuah (1562/3–1618)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Renaissance -
Bio The standard edition of Drayton's works is by J. W. Hebel, K. Tillotson, and B. H. Newdigate (5 vols.; Oxford: Blackwell, 1931-41). The Poems are edited by E. J. M. Buxton ("Muses' Library" 2 vols., London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953).Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Jacobean -
Bio Holland, Peter. "Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2011. Internet Shakespeare Editions. Ed. Michael Best. Victoria, British Columbia:…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Tudor
