Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

John Taylor: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born August 24, 1580 • Gloucester • England
Died December 1653 (aged 73) • London • England

Photos

John Taylor, engraving by E. Scriven after a portrait by an unknown artist
See All Images →
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
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Engraved portrait of John Milton by Jacob Houbraken, showing Milton with shoulder-length hair, a lace collar, and period clothing, facing forward in an oval frame.
John Milton
English poet, pamphleteer, and historian
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
English poet
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
default image
Arthur Young
English writer
default image
Thomas Lodge
English writer
default image
Helen Maria Williams
English writer
default image
Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
pages from Francis Quarles's Emblemes
Francis Quarles
English poet
default image
Aaron Hill
English author
default image
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet
English poet
George Sandys, engraving after a portrait by Cornelius Janssen; frontispiece to Relation of a Journey (1615)
George Sandys
English poet and traveler
default image
Richard Flecknoe
English author
default image
Nicholas Amhurst
British author
default image
Thomas Jordan
English writer
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

Related Quizzes

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form