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Born 1574 • England
Died 1640?
Notable Works “The Parliament of Bees”
Jonson, Ben
Ben Jonson
English writer
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Sir William Davenant
English writer
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Samuel Daniel
British author
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Thomas Heywood
English actor and playwright
English playwright and poet
James Shirley
English playwright
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William Cornysh
English musician, author and actor
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author
Lithograph portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson with wavy hair, a full beard, and a serious expression, shown in three-quarter view wearing a dark coat.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English poet
Robert Browning.
Robert Browning
British poet
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author