Poets Timeline
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Bio Lindsay, Alexander. “Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement Metaphysical PoetsLiterary Period Commonwealth -
Bio Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) is the most widely read and the best loved of French classical writers. In France every school child studies his fables and leams some of them by heart. La Fontaine is a conscientious artist who also wrote longer poems and Contes et nouvelles en vers, and…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio All the poems of Marvell were published (three years after his death) in Miscellaneous Poems, 1681. Most of them cannot be accurately dated.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement Metaphysical PoetsLiterary Period Seventeenth century -
Bio The poems by Vaughan printed here are from Silex Scintillans ("Sparkling Flint") 1655, but all except "The Star," "They are all gone into the world of Light," and "The Water-Fall" were first published in a 1650 edition of Silex Scintillans to which a second part was added in 1655.…Nationality WelshLiterary Movement Metaphysical PoetsLiterary Period Commonwealth
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Bio John Bunyan was born at Elstow, near Bedford, and baptized Nov. 30, 1628, the son of a tinker, and like his father a tinker. He joined joined the parliamentary forces in the English civil war in 1644. On leaving, he married in 1646 a pious woman whose only dowry was two books, The Plain…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Restoration -
Bio The texts used are based on Douglas Grant's Reynard Library edition (Hart-Davis, 1952). The specific edition used by Professor Grant is given for each work here. The spelling has been modernized, but not the punctuation. Note that the punctuation is generally rhetorical rather than…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Restoration
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Bio Morgan, John. "Sprat, Thomas (bap. 1635, d. 1713)." 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 Restoration -
Bio After lying in manuscript for over two centuries, two autograph volumes of poetry and prose by Thomas Traherne were discovered in a London bookstall in 1896 and were thought by A. B. Grosart to be the work of Vaughan. After Dr. Grosart died, the MSS came into the hands of the bookseller…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement Metaphysical PoetsLiterary Period Restoration
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Bio Love, Harold. "Sackville, Charles, sixth earl of Dorset and first earl of Middlesex (1643–1706)." 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 Restoration -
Bio Love, Harold. "Sedley, Sir Charles, fifth baronet (bap. 1639, d. 1701)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oct. 2005.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Restoration
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Bio Todd, Janet. “Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Restoration -
Bio Guruswamy, Rosemay Fithian. The Poems of Edward Taylor: a reference guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. Hammond, Jeffrey A. American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000. Taylor, Edward. The Poetical Works of…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Colonial -
Bio "As late as 1953 it was impossible to publish Rochester's 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' and 'A ramble in St. James's Park' (Poems, xlix). And even after Judge John W. Woolsey's landmark decision in the Ulysses case in December 1933 'A ramble in St. James's Park' could still be called 'this…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Restoration -
Bio Hopkins, David. "Tate, Nahum (c.1652–1715)." 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 Restoration -
Bio Ezell, Margaret J. M.. “Chudleigh , Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. The Poetry and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Ed. Margaret J. M. Ezell. New York: Oxford University…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Augustan
